Cassandra Database Administrator_San jose, CA (4 days onsite in a week, W2 Only)

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Role : Sr Cassandra Database Administrator
Location: San Jose , CA (Hybrid, 1 day remote in a week)
Duration: Contract (W2 Only)

Job Description:
In this hands-on role, you will be responsible for maintaining and supporting a production-grade Cassandra environment and ensuring database health, performance, and availability.
This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a dynamic environment, understands Cassandra architecture inside and out, and has strong analytical and troubleshooting skills for performance issues.

Duties:

• Documents and implements requirements and solution design
• Reviews and provides feedback for system design solutions that will impact their area
• Provides input to system capacity plans
• Participates in installation and configuration activities
• Develops and maintains procedures and system documentation
• Performs systems resource optimization (e.g., performance tuning activities)
• Participates in major updates supporting new requirements and maintaining systems currency
• Participates in implementing resource management and monitoring methods and tools
• Develops, implements, monitors and administers system access, resources, backups and DB maintenance processes or jobs
• Provides input for performance management and capacity planning
• Participates in systems management and Security Compliance activities
• Supports resolution of production incidents
• Their work within their domain(e.g., Oracle DBA)
• Proposes mitigation plans for identified risks and problems
• Suggests process improvement and best practices
• Iterates and improves upon stable technologies and processes
• Provides work effort planning and estimates for system administration and engineering work
• Justifies decisions and achieves peer consent
• Sphere of influence is across IT Teams
• Actively shares technical knowledge within domain their team and others
• Collaborates with other DBAs, Developers and TDS Systems Engineers
• Mentors co-workers within areas of expertise
• Participates in staff recruiting
• Works with contract resources and provides guidance
• Self-directing and provides direction to other DBAs in their domain

Must Have:

• Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience as a Cassandra Database Administrator.
• Strong knowledge of Cassandra architecture, configuration, and tuning.
• Proficiency with patching and upgrading Cassandra in a production environment.
• Demonstrated experience in schema design, performance troubleshooting, and handling large-scale distributed systems.
• Comfortable supporting a 24x7 environment, including shared on-call rotation.
• Proven experience in looking at , pulling & using data (data manipulation)
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently in a fast-paced setting.

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