Cassandra DBA
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Job Location:
Minneapolis, MN - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
7 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Hello
Position: Cassandra DBA
Location: 100% Remote
Duration: 6 months Contract
Note: Fully remote Only on W2 Contract. Looking for a Cassandra DBA SME
Overview:
- This team owns a data platform that communicates with Clients online banking & exposes data like account balances credit card balances etc. This is business critical data/functionality so any changes to the applications/configurations need to be done in a way that can maintain operations and limit disruption to users
- There is an audit of their platform going on that is uncovering some security risks that need to be addressed within the Cassandra DB
- Additionally they are migrating from on-prem to Azure planning to have this complete by Q2 of 2026. Also considering migrating to Yugabyte.
Responsibilities:
- Taking requirements from the audit team as to what changes need to be made within the database & update configurations accordingly
- Ensure that all new functionality within the DB meets the updated requirements based on the audit results
- Configure & enable SSL and LDAP
- Observability/monitoring alerts using Prometheus & Grafana
- Performance tuning backup/recovery troubleshooting etc.
Must Haves:
- Cassandra expertise they do not have much Cassandra knowledge on the team need someone who is able to identify gaps in the platform and provide recommendations for solutions
- Only need DBA as the data modeling & database development is complete but any Cassandra development experience would be a plus
- Ansible & AWX all operational pipelines will be on Ansible with AWX
- Knowledge of Jenkins pipelines and Terraform for IaC for automating DB deployments automating cluster set up etc.
What Will Win:
- GitLab CI
- Python
- Financial services experience especially experience with audits
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