Senior Database Administrator - Cassandra

When you join Verizon

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What you’ll be doing...

• Involved in the daily activities of configuration and system administration associated with non-production and production environments.
• Optimize system operation, performance, and resource utilization.
• Monitoring and reporting on performance metrics
• 24x7 production on-call support handling emergencies
• Participate in system capacity analysis and planning.
• Install, configure, and upgrade non-production and production NoSQL software and related products.
• Perform regular maintenance (i.e.: patches and upgrades), proactive monitoring and optimization of non-production and production environments.
• Determine size and IOPS of a working set by analyzing queries.
• Educating Engineers regarding best practices for database use (queries, schema creation, index creation)
  Identify areas of improvement and make suggestions.
   

What we’re looking for...
You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Four or more years of relevant work experience.
• Experience in Administration of NoSQL distributed database systems like Cassandra.
• Experience in Designing and deploying Highly Scalable Cassandra Database clusters on Cloud.
• Experience handling common database procedures, such as upgrades, backups, recovery, migration, maintenance, etc.
• Knowledge of Cassandra schema, CQL query, Cassandra command-line utility, and DataStax ops center.
• Experience or knowledge in Cassandra Reaper.
• Extensive experience with designing and implementing database infrastructure and processes to support true 24x7x365 operations, by reaching the expectation of no downtime for database maintenance
• Experience in Performance monitoring and query fine-tuning, Problem determination and troubleshooting, interacting with UNIX and Application group.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Strong commitment to quality, self-motivation and accountability to work assignments.
• Good analytical aptitude to apply quality assurance principles to all aspects of work.
• Excellent communication skills (written and oral).
• Ability to effectively interact with other project teams in support of a multi-service
  engagement.
• Possess strong leadership skills and further the evolution of intellectual capital assets
  and developing practice resources.
• Experience or strong knowledge in Kubernetes.
• Experience or strong knowledge Databases like PostgreSQL, MariaDB

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

Where you’ll be working

Scheduled Weekly Hours

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