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ID #19722779
State Colorado
City Denver
Job type Contract
Salary USD Depends on Experience Depends on Experience
Source iSpace, Inc
Showed 2021-09-16
Date 2021-09-15
Deadline 2021-11-13
Category Software/QA/DBA/etc
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Google Cloud/Cassandra Database Engineer

Colorado, Denver, 80201 Denver USA

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Google Cloud/Cassandra Database Engineer

Location: Denver, CO

Duration: 3 Plus Months Contract

Job Summary:
  • Has a good understand of cloud architectures.
  • Ensures overall health and performance of multiple Cassandra instances.
  • Monitors performance, reliability, availability, scalability, and recoverability.
  • Confers with appropriate managers regarding problems with and capabilities of Client/Server databases.
  • Works with Development teams to tune code running against the database.
  • Experience with Big Query, Spanner and the Google Cloud is a plus.
  • Operates under general supervision.

Qualifications:
  • The candidate must have at least 2 to 3 years of experience with Cassandra and cloud databases.
  • The ideal candidate will have some experience supporting Google Cloud databases and coding in Python and/or Teradata as well.
  • Strong conceptual and analytic skills.
  • Skilled in Cassandra programming, knowledge of operating systems and UNIX scripting languages.
  • Knowledge of database security management and data integrity concepts.
  • Experience in code migration, database change management and data management through the various stages of the development life cycle.
  • A Bachelor's degree in business or computer science or equivalent experience is required.

Responsibilities (Job Duties) include:
  • Implements database software installs, upgrades, and patches
  • Conducts regular database performance testing and tuning
  • Capacity planning for database storage and memory
  • Implements and maintains operational and disaster recovery procedures
  • Manages database security, user accounts and access privileges
  • Writing and maintaining UNIX shell scripts for database monitoring and job automation
  • Performs complex bug verification, release testing for assigned products
  • Works with DBAs and other internal teams to establish, implement and document database standards
  • Confers with internal department managers regarding problems with and the capabilities of various internally used databases
  • Flexibility to adapt to and willingness to learn new technologies.
  • Advise on database concepts and functional capabilities
  • Share responsibility for 24/7 on-call support
  • Recommends systems changes to programming management
  • Demonstrated effective oral and written communication skills with the ability to communicate technical information to non-technical personnel.
  • Working positively and having fun within a team environment
  • Maintain backups and backups and recovery documentation
  • Ability to work within change control processes
  • Maintain detailed project plans for and occasionally lead database projects
  • Working on multiple database related projects in a fast paced and dynamic environment.

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