Cassandra Database Consultant
Bengaluru
Open Source Database – Cassandra /
Full Time /
Hybrid
Cassandra Database Consultant
Bengaluru | India | Hybrid or Remote
Why Pythian:
At Pythian, we are experts in strategic database and analytics services, driving digital transformation and operational excellence. Pythian, a multinational company, was founded in 1997 and started by ensuring the reliability and performance of mission-critical databases. We quickly earned a reputation for solving tough data challenges. We were there when the industry moved from on-premises to cloud environments, and as enterprises sought more from their data, we expanded our competencies to include advanced analytics.
Today, we empower organizations to embrace transformation and leverage advanced technologies, including AI, to stay competitive. We deliver innovative solutions that meet each client’s data goals and have built strong partnerships with Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and Snowflake. The powerful combination of our extensive expertise in data and cloud and our ability to keep on top of the latest bleeding edge technologies make us the perfect partner to help mid and large-sized businesses transform to stay ahead in today’s rapidly changing digital economy.
Why you?
Are you an experienced Hyderabad based Cassandra DBA? Are you passionate about planning, designing and implementing new solutions? Do you enjoy evaluating existing solutions and helping to build automation tooling and processes to improve systems? Do you want to be part of an open source database team that will give you the opportunity to work with multiple database systems, as well as the infrastructures supporting complex, distributed systems including cloud infrastructure, configuration management, orchestration and continuous delivery platforms? Working as a Cassandra DBC at Pythian can hone your skills, helping you to grow your role, with a breadth of knowledge in platforms and technologies that few professionals can boast of! If you Love Your Data™ and enjoy solving complex technical problems and want to Love your career then this could be the job for you!
What will you be doing?
- As a Cassandra Database Consultant at Pythian, your primary focus will be on project work, debugging performance degradations, audits, and health checks.
- Once trained in, you will be included on a third tier on call rotation with other Consultants to respond to escalations and you will be expected to provide training and mentoring to junior team members.
- Designing and helping implement new Cassandra deployments
- Evaluating existing clusters and provide recommendations on best practices
- Debugging high priority issues on mission critical production environments
- Be involved with Cassandra community through user lists, irc, blog posts, webinars, and open source projects
- Contributing to rapid brainstorming, designing and developing of prototypes
- Automating and providing documentation on operational procedures
- Training and mentoring junior team members
- Providing performance and forecast reports on the health and load of critical business processes to help ensure the infrastructure has adequate capacity
- Participating in company, and team meetings
What do we need from you?
- Experience with NoSQL databases such as Cassandra, Solr, HBase, Hadoop, or Riak. Cassandra experience preferred
- Experience with at least one programing language such as Java, Go, C#, C++, Ruby, or Python. Java preferred
- Strong knowledge and experience of web applications, distributed systems and databases
- Experience with multiple orchestration and configuration management systems
- Familiar with multiple monitoring/alerting and metric collection systems
- Continuous integration and automation practices
What do you get in return?
- Love your career: Competitive total rewards package. Blog during work hours; take a day off and volunteer for your favorite charity.
- Love your coworkers: Collaborate with some of the best and brightest in the industry!
- Love your development: Hone your skills or learn new ones with our substantial training allowance; participate in professional development days, attend training, become certified, whatever you like!
- Love your workspace: We give you all the equipment you need to work from home including a laptop with your choice of OS, and an annual budget to personalize your work environment!
- Love yourself: Pythian cares about the health and well-being of our team. You will have an annual wellness budget to make yourself a priority (use it on gym memberships, massages, fitness and more). Additionally, you will receive a generous amount of paid vacation and sick days, as well as a day off to volunteer for your favorite charity.
HiringDisclaimer
The successful applicant will need to fulfill the requirements necessary to obtain a background check.
Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in any aspect of the selection process.
