Senior Cassandra Database Engineer

The Opportunity: We are seeking a highly skilled Cassandra Database Engineer to design, build, optimize, and support modern database platforms across enterprise environments. This role will partner with application development, infrastructure, architecture, and operations teams to deliver scalable, reliable, and high-performing data solutions that support critical business applications.

The ideal candidate brings strong expertise in database engineering, operational excellence, automation, and cloud technologies, with a passion for building resilient data platforms and driving continuous improvements through innovation and automation.

• Role: Cassandra Database Engineer
• Experience: 7+ Years
• Work Location: Phoenix, AZ
• Project Duration: 12+ Months Contract

• Design, develop, and maintain enterprise-grade database solutions supporting business-critical applications and services.
• Manage and administer No
  
  SQL and open-source database platforms to ensure stability, availability, and optimal performance.
• Perform database lifecycle activities including installations, upgrades, migrations, patching, capacity planning, backup strategies, and recovery procedures.
• Monitor database environments and proactively identify opportunities for performance optimization, scalability improvements, and operational efficiency.
• Develop and implement database automation solutions to streamline administration, deployment, maintenance, and operational processes.
• Collaborate with architecture and business teams to translate data requirements into effective conceptual, logical, and physical data models.
• Support distributed and highly available database environments while ensuring reliability, resiliency, and fault tolerance.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex database-related issues across development, testing, and production environments.
• Work closely with application development, infrastructure, platform engineering, and support teams to ensure seamless integration of database services.
• Contribute to database standards, governance practices, operational procedures, and engineering best practices.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions to improve visibility into database health and performance.
• Participate in cloud adoption initiatives and support database workloads across modern cloud platforms.
• Develop scripts, utilities, and engineering tools that improve operational efficiency and reduce manual effort.
• Support Agile delivery teams by participating in sprint planning, technical reviews, deployments, and continuous improvement activities.
• Contribute to CI/CD initiatives and help integrate database deployment processes into automated delivery pipelines.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline; advanced degree preferred.
• 5+ years of professional experience in database engineering, database development, or database administration.
• Strong hands-on experience with one or more database technologies, including:
  • PostgreSQL
  • Oracle Database
  • Couchbase
  • Cassandra
  • MongoDB
• Experience managing operational activities such as:
  • Database upgrades and migrations
  • Patch management
  • Capacity planning and expansion
  • Backup and recovery
  • Performance analysis and tuning
  • High availability and disaster recovery implementations
• Strong understanding of database architecture, storage concepts, indexing strategies, replication mechanisms, and query optimization.
• Experience creating and maintaining conceptual, logical, and physical data models.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with development, infrastructure, architecture, and production support teams.
• Experience supporting distributed systems and multi-tier application environments.
• Proficiency in one or more programming or scripting languages such as:
  • Python
  • Shell Scripting
  • Java
  • Go
• Understanding of API-driven architectures and modern application integration patterns.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and software delivery practices.
• Experience working with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipelines.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Experience automating database administration and infrastructure processes using Ansible.
• Experience developing custom automation frameworks and operational tooling for database environments.
• Exposure to cloud platforms such as:
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • Microsoft Azure
• Knowledge of cloud-native database deployment and management practices.
• Experience with database monitoring, observability, and performance management solutions.
• Familiarity with Dev Ops and Infrastructure-as-Code principles.
• Exposure to modern web application development technologies and frameworks.
• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise database environments.
• Understanding of security, compliance, and governance considerations within database ecosystems.
• Knowledge of CI/CD…