Required Skills & Experience: • 7+ years Cassandra DBA experience, preferably with Datastax Enterprise (DSE) • DSE development experience including schema design, CQL optimization, and application performance tuning Core DBA Responsibilities: • DSE Platform Health Checks, capacity planning, and cluster tuning • DSE Core daily operations, patches, upgrades, and version migrations • Automation of DBA tasks using Ansible playbooks and scripting • Creation/maintenance of DSE Runbooks for operational consistency • Production timeout investigation and root cause analysis • Evaluate options for workload reduction and performance optimization • DSE Search/Solr integration and Storage-Attached Indexing (SAI) implementation Core Developer Responsibilities: • Design/optimize DSE data models, tables, and partition keys using CQL • Develop/tune CQL queries and applications using Datastax drivers • Build scalable distributed data architectures and schema evolution • Code/test scripts for data cleanup, repairs, and synchronization • Collaborate with development teams on query optimization and integration Technical Skills: • Strong Shell scripting (Bash/Python) for automation • Dashboard creation (Grafana, Prometheus, DSE OpsCenter) • Experience with Ansible for infrastructure automation • Excellent troubleshooting and performance tuning skills Soft Skills: • Strong communication and documentation abilities • Cross-functional collaboration with development and operations teams
