Title: Senior DataStax Cassandra Administrator
Location: Cincinnati, OH
Type: Contract
Duration: Long Term
Description:
- Install, configure, and maintain DataStax Cassandra (DSE) clusters in production, staging, and development environments.
- Monitor cluster performance and proactively address issues related to latency, throughput, and node health.
- Perform data backup and recovery procedures to ensure data integrity and availability.
- Implement and manage security policies, authentication, and authorization in Cassandra environments.
- Conduct routine maintenance tasks, including patching, upgrades, and performance tuning.
- Collaborate with application development teams to optimize data models, queries, and data access patterns.
- Plan and execute capacity planning and cluster expansion as needed.
- utomate operational tasks using scripts or tools (e.g., Ansible, etc.).
- Participate in 24/7 on-call rotation for production support, incident management, and root cause analysis.
- Maintain documentation of system configurations, processes, and procedures.