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Now100

Cassandra DBA

Dallas, TX

We match thoroughly vetted resources to contract, contract-to-hire, and permanent positions in all industries. We are looking for a Cassandra DBA for one of our clients here in Atlanta, GA or Dallas ...

Hirekeyz Inc

Database Administrator

Austin, TX · On-site

Database Administrator Location: Austin, TX (Must be available to come into office 2 days/week ) Must be local to TX Duration: Long Term Contract II. CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS Minimum ...

Incorporan.Inc

Sr.Vertica DBA

Texas City, TX · On-site

Contract VISA Copy and Driving License Mandatory. Key Skills: Must have Experience in Vertica DBA Must Have Strong Experience in 5+ years of Application DBA experience, 2+ years of Vertica DBA ...

Atria Group LLC

Oracle DBA

Houston, TX · On-site

$48.50 - $66/hr

Oracle Support DBA Role: Oracle Production/Support Jr DBA 3 to 5 years Ideal candidate will possess ... Duration: 6 month (reoccurring) Contract * Interview Process: 1 Technical phone Interview then 1 ...

Incorporan.Inc

Sr.Vertica DBA

Texas City, TX

Contract VISA Copy and Driving License Mandatory. Key Skills: Must have Experience in Vertica DBA Must Have Strong Experience in 5+ years of Application DBA experience, 2+ years of Vertica DBA ...

iTech US, Inc.

PostgreSQL DBA

San Antonio, TX · On-site

Contract Description * Perform database administration activities including: * Database ... Administer and support PostgreSQL and Mainframe DB2 environments. * Monitor database performance ...

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Hirekeyz Inc

Database Administrator

Austin, TX · On-site

Database Administrator Location: Hybrid/Austin, TX [LOCAL TO THE AUSTIN AREA ONLY (Within 50-mile ... Contract * Enters codes to create production data base. * Selects and enters codes of utility ...

Teksoft Systems Inc

Oracle 12C Dba

Dallas, TX · On-site

$50.50 - $68.50/hr

Lead DBA Location: Dallas, TX 1 year Contract Years of Experience: 15+ Years of experience managing enterprise database platforms Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and cloud database ...

TekWissen LLC

Sr. SQL DBA

Austin, TX · On-site

$90 - $120/hr

Position SQL DBA Location Austin, TX Duration 6 months Job Summary This person will help build a ... Contract Details Contract period is 3-4 months (could extend depending on need). Candidates must ...

Allstate

Neo4J Database Administrator

Houston, TX · On-site

The Vended Application Lead Consultant (Neo4J DBA) typically provides expertise across all major ... Federal Contract Compliance Programs. To view the FMLA poster, click "here". This poster ...

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Cassandra DBA

Now100

Dallas, TX

Contractor

Re-posted 13 days ago

Job description

Company Description

Now100 is committed to understanding our clients' needs and providing solutions that not only meet but exceed their expectations. We match thoroughly vetted resources to contract, contract-to-hire, and permanent positions in all industries.

Job Description

We are looking for a Cassandra DBA for one of our clients here in Atlanta, GA or Dallas, TX. Please find the position details below and let me know your interest in this.

  • Role: DBA - Cassandra
  • Duration: 6+ Months
  • Location: Atlanta, GA / Dallas, TX (Remote)
  • No of positions: 2

Required 5-7+ years of working experience in Design, Build, Maintenance, and Administration of NoSQL distributed database systems like Datastax Cassandra and good experience on Legacy Databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, IBM DB2 UDB, Oracle DB, Graph DBs, etc. Needs to have experience in Google Cloud Platform or similar Cloud (AWS, Azure, etc.)

Qualifications
  • Experience in Designing and deploying Highly Scalable Cassandra Database clusters on Cloud.
  • Proficient in scripting languages and automation tools like Terraform, Ansible, Chef required Skills
  • Cockroach DB (Distributed SQL Database). So distributed database systems deployment Support and ACID Databases Support knowledge required
  • Strong Experience handling common database procedures, such as upgrades, backups, recovery, migration, maintenance, etc.
  • Experience in designing, implementing, and deployment of large-scale web and database infrastructures that are highly available, performing, cost-effective, and sustainable.
  • Participate in continuous improvement efforts in enhancing performance and providing increased functionality.
  • Work with internal and external customers to develop new value-added programs and data solutions with the existing data structure.
  • Strong knowledge of Cassandra schema, CQL query, Cassandra command-line utility, and DataStax ops center.
  • Experience with GCP Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, and Google managed databases.(Cloud Spanner, Bigtable, CloudSQL, etc..) is big plus
  • Defining and delivering robust monitoring solutions for database tiers that encompass both infrastructure and application-level perspectives.
  • 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.
  • Analyzing incidents, performance, metrics, and trends to proactively identify and resolve potential site issues before they develop.
  • Proactively analyze performance to identify bottlenecks and handle incidents, bugs, and provide solutions with root cause analysis.
  • Performance monitoring and query fine-tuning, Problem determination and troubleshooting, interacting with UNIX and Application group and playing a diverse role with a large team of DBREs.
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About Now100:

Part of 100 Holdings Group, Now100 is Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Now100 offers the highest quality professionals and solutions to help clients with their complex technology needs. Now100 is committed to understanding our clients' needs and providing solutions that not only meet but exceed their expectations.

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