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Cassandra Database Engineer
Job in
Austin, Travis County, Texas, 78716, USA
Listed on 2026-01-13
Listing for:
LanceSoft Inc
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-01-13
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Database Administrator, Data Engineer
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Job Details:
Job Title: Cassandra Database Engineer
Job Duration: 12+ Months
Location: Austin, TX
Pay Range: $100.00 - $120.00/hr. on W2
Hybrid role - In office Mon, Wed, Thurs is a must. (No flexibility these days)
Position Summary:The Cassandra Database Engineer is an expert across NOSQL database technologies but specifically a specialist on Cassandra database administration.
For this position, NOSQL database expertise is mandatory with a primary focus on Cassandra databases, as well as expertise in Public Cloud technology (AWS and/or GCP).
For this mission, the engineer will primarily be responsible for database operational activities.
The Database Engineer primary responsibility footprint:
- Database performance analysis and operations review for production database platforms
- Manage database operations activities including incident response, database alert resolution, and managing third party support engagement
- Deploy and maintain database monitoring solutions.
- Test and build database restore and recovery procedures
- Database platform deployment, installation, patching, change management, and third-party software upgrades.
- Responsible for database hardening procedure identification and deployment on public cloud, hosted, and on-premises platforms.
- Responsible for providing database expertise and operations support to the technical support teams and project delivery teams.
- Responsible for participating in database platform review, bench and tuning exercises, security evaluation, provide technical analysis and proactive recommendations for improvements and/or design changes for production platforms
Skills, Experience &
Education:
- HS diploma with 8+ experience in Cassandra administration (NOT architecture or design)
- College degree in Computer Science preferred + 8-10 years’ experience
- NOSQL Database: 8-10 years Cassandra administration
- Extensive background with public cloud database deployment, management and migration.
- Expertise in database concepts, defining standards, processes, and procedures in database deployment methodologies
- Expert in operations of high-profile production database platforms with high SLA and high-performance expectation
- High level of experience in managing change on production database platform on hosted, on premises, and cloud database platforms
- Expert in deploying high availability database architecture
- Proactive, team player, and leadership qualities with strong technical background
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Highly skilled in Cassandra database administration
- Data Stax enterprise Cassandra administration a plus
- Strong production operations and troubleshooting skills
- Linux operating system background
- Skilled in Public Cloud deployment methods/tools (Gitlab, Terraform, Datadog)
- Knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker.
- Database performance evaluation and platform bench participation
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