- Work Model: Work from Office

- Candidate Expectations

- Total Experience and Relevant Experience: 3+ Years

- Candidate Location: Bangalore

Skills Mandatory:

- Cassandra database administration, Troubleshooting, Linux/Unix administration and shell scripting

- Candidate Industry: IT Services / Product Engineering / Cloud and Infrastructure Services / Database Operations.

Education and Certification

Qualification:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline, as per client policy.

Role Overview:

- The Cassandra Admin DBA will be responsible for managing, maintaining, monitoring, and optimizing Apache Cassandra database environments.

- The role involves ensuring high availability, scalability, performance, data consistency, security, and reliability of database clusters supporting business-critical applications.

Key Responsibilities:

- Database Administration: Install, configure, administer, and maintain Apache Cassandra clusters across development, testing, staging, and production environments.

- Cluster Management: Manage node additions and removals, cluster expansion, data distribution, replication strategies, and cluster health.

- Performance Optimization: Monitor database performance, analyze latency and throughput, identify bottlenecks, and optimize queries, data models, compaction, and resource utilization.

- Backup and Recovery: Implement and manage backup, restoration, and disaster recovery procedures; regularly validate recovery readiness.

- Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Monitor cluster health, logs, disk utilization, CPU, memory, read/write latency, and other performance indicators; troubleshoot database issues and perform root-cause analysis.

- High Availability: Maintain fault-tolerant database environments and support availability, replication,



and recovery requirements.

- Security and Access Management: Implement authentication, authorization, role-based access controls, encryption, and database security best practices.

- Data Replication and Consistency: Manage replication factors, consistency levels, and data repair operations to maintain data integrity across nodes and data centres.

- Maintenance and Upgrades: Perform patching, version upgrades, configuration changes, and routine maintenance while minimizing application downtime.

- Linux and Scripting: Use Linux/Unix commands and shell scripts to automate database administration, monitoring, and operational tasks.

- Capacity Planning: Forecast storage and infrastructure requirements based on data growth, workload patterns, and application demands.

- Incident and Change Management: Handle production incidents, participate in on-call support where required, document resolutions, and follow change-management procedures.

- Documentation and Collaboration: Maintain operational runbooks, database configurations, incident reports, and standard operating procedures; coordinate with application, DevOps, infrastructure, and engineering teams.

Key Deliverables:

- Stable, reliable, and highly available Cassandra clusters.

- Improved database performance and operational efficiency.

- Effective backup, recovery, and disaster recovery readiness.

- Timely resolution of database incidents and performance issues.

- Accurate documentation and adherence to database security standards.

Key Skills

- Mandatory Key Skills: Apache Cassandra, Cassandra Cluster Administration, Cassandra Architecture, CQL (Cassandra Query Language), Data Modelling, Cluster Installation and Configuration

- Valuable to Have Skills: Data Modelling, Cluster Installation and Configuration, Shell Scripting and Automation, Database Security

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