Cassandra Database Consultant Job in Pythian

What will you be doing?

• As a Cassandra Database Consultant at Pythian, your primary focus will be on project work, debugging performance degradations, audits, and health checks.
• Once trained in, you will be included on a third tier on call rotation with other Consultants to respond to escalations and you will be expected to provide training and mentoring to junior team members.
• Designing and helping implement new Cassandra deployments
• Evaluating existing clusters and provide recommendations on best practices
• Debugging high priority issues on mission critical production environments
• Be involved with Cassandra community through user lists, irc, blog posts, webinars, and open source projects
• Contributing to rapid brainstorming, designing and developing of prototypes
• Automating and providing documentation on operational procedures
• Training and mentoring junior team members
• Providing performance and forecast reports on the health and load of critical business processes to help ensure the infrastructure has adequate capacity
• Participating in company, and team meetings

What do we need from you?

• Experience with NoSQL databases such as Cassandra, Solr, HBase, Hadoop, or Riak. Cassandra experience preferred
• Experience with at least one programing language such as Java, Go, C#, C++, Ruby, or Python. Java preferred
• Strong knowledge and experience of web applications, distributed systems and databases
• Experience with multiple orchestration and configuration management systems
• Familiar with multiple monitoring/alerting and metric collection systems
• Continuous integration and automation practices

What do you get in return?

• Love your career: Competitive total rewards package with an annual bonus
• Love your development: Hone your skills or learn new ones with our substantial training allowance; participate in professional development days, attend conferences, become certified, whatever you like!
• Love your work/life balance: Why commute? Work remotely from your home (forever), there s no daily travel requirement to an office! You can be located anywhere in Canada, all you need is a stable internet connection.
• Love your workspace: We give you all the equipment you need to work from home including a laptop with your choice of OS, and an annual budget to personalise your work environment!
• Love your community: Blog during work hours; take a day off and volunteer for your favorite charity.