Senior Cassandra Database Engineer

The Opportunity:

We are seeking a highly skilled Cassandra DBA / 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 Cassandra database administration, database engineering, performance tuning, cluster management, automation, backup and recovery, JVM/system tuning, monitoring, troubleshooting, and cloud technologies, with a passion for building resilient data platforms and driving continuous improvements through innovation and automation.

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

We are seeking a highly skilled Cassandra DBA / 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 Cassandra database administration, database engineering, performance tuning, cluster management, automation, backup and recovery, JVM/system tuning, monitoring, troubleshooting, and cloud technologies, with a passion for building resilient data platforms and driving continuous improvements through innovation and automation.

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

• Design, develop, configure, and maintain enterprise-grade highly available and scalable Cassandra clusters supporting business-critical applications and services.
• Manage and administer Cassandra and other No
  
  SQL/open-source database platforms to ensure stability, availability, reliability, and optimal performance.
• Demonstrate strong understanding of Cassandra architecture, replication strategies, consistency levels, partitioning, data modeling, token distribution, and multi-data-center deployments.
• Design Cassandra cluster topology and perform capacity planning based on application workloads, scalability, availability, and performance requirements.
• Perform Cassandra performance analysis and tuning to optimize read/write performance, throughput, and latency.
• Tune Cassandra compaction strategies, caching, consistency levels, tombstones, SSTables, and database configuration parameters.
• Identify and resolve hot partitions, slow queries, high latency, and database or infrastructure resource bottlenecks.
• Manage Cassandra cluster lifecycle activities including installations, upgrades, migrations, patching, capacity expansion, and configuration changes.
• Add, replace, remove, and safely decommission Cassandra nodes while maintaining cluster availability and data integrity.
• Perform cluster expansion and capacity upgrades with minimal production impact.
• Manage token distribution, node bootstrap and streaming, repair, cleanup, and cluster rebalancing activities.
• Implement and maintain Cassandra backup and restore strategies, including snapshots and incremental backups.
• Support point-in-time recovery where supported by the organization's backup solution and conduct recovery testing.
• Develop and support disaster-recovery procedures and ensure Cassandra environments meet availability and business continuity requirements.
• Tune Cassandra JVM heap, garbage collection, memory, and related configuration settings.
• Troubleshoot JVM and system-level issues including GC pauses, heap pressure, CPU utilization, disk I/O, memory,…