Cassandra Database Engineer - (Cassandra administration)

Role: Cassandra Database Engineer - Cassandra administration

Location: Austin, TX - Hybrid

Contract on W2

Minimum Requirements: 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 premise, and cloud database platforms
Expert in deploying high availability database architectures
Proactive, team player, and leadership qualities with strong technical background
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Preferred Qualifications
Highly skilled in Cassandra database administration
DataStax 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