Cassandra DBA
Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC

Job Description

Experienced Cassandra DBA to manage and maintain our mission-critical Cassandra database clusters. The ideal candidate will have extensive hands-on experience with Cassandra database administration, performance tuning, backup/recovery, and cluster scaling.

Key Responsibilities:

- Install, configure, and upgrade Cassandra clusters across multiple environments (dev/staging/prod)
- Design and implement backup/recovery strategies to ensure data integrity and availability.
- Monitor Cassandra clusters, identify bottlenecks, and tune for optimal performance.
- Develop and implement database security policies and access controls.
- Manage Cassandra cluster scaling (adding/removing nodes) to meet capacity demands.
- Collaborate with engineers to review data models and ensure efficient schema designs.
- Solid understanding of security principles and implementation in database environments.
- Monitor database performance, ensuring optimal efficiency and reliability.
- Collaborate with development teams to design and implement database structures for applications.
- Automate routine DBA tasks through scripting and tools.
- Provide training and support to development teams on Cassandra best practices.
- Troubleshoot and resolve Cassandra issues in a timely manner.
- Stay up to date on Cassandra releases and industry best practices.

Requirements:

- Proven experience as a Cassandra DBA, minimum 3+ years
- Strong understanding of Cassandra architecture, data modeling, and query optimization
- Hands-on experience with Cassandra tools (nodetool, cqlsh, OpsCenter)
- Proficiency in Apache Cassandra administration (backups, repairs, upgrades)
- Experience with Cassandra replication, consistency levels, and multi-datacenter clusters.
- Scripting abilities in languages like Python, Bash, etc.
- Knowledge of operating system internals (Linux)
- Problem-solving skills with systematic approaches to issue resolution
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and multi-task efficiently.
- -proven Experience in hosting and upgrading Cassandra versions
- -Familiarity with data replication, sharding, and clustering in distributed database systems.

Nice to Have:

- Experience with streaming/messaging systems (Apache Kafka)
- Familiarity with cloud platforms AWS and container technologies
- Knowledge of complementary data stores (Redis)
- Experience is Mongo database

Beacon Hill is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values the strength diversity brings to the workplace. Individuals with Disabilities and Protected Veterans are encouraged to apply.

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Company Profile:

Beacon Hill Technologies, a premier National Information Technology Staffing Group, provides world class technology talent across all industries utilizing a complete suite of staffing services. Beacon Hill Technologies' dedicated team of recruiting and staffing experts consistently delivers quality IT professionals to solve our customers' technical and business needs.

Beacon Hill Technologies covers a broad spectrum of IT positions, including Project Management and Business Analysis, Programming/Development, Database, Infrastructure, Quality Assurance, Production/Support and ERP roles.

Learn more about Beacon Hill Staffing Group and our specialty divisions, Beacon Hill Associates, Beacon Hill Financial, Beacon Hill HR, Beacon Hill Legal, Beacon Hill Life Sciences and Beacon Hill Technologies by visiting www.beaconhillstaffing.com .

We look forward to working with you.

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