Job Summary:Job Title: Cassandra Database Engineer
Location: Austin, TX
Duration: Nov 2025 –Apr 2026
Work Site: Hybrid
Pay Range: $100.00 - $120.00 an hour USD
Job Description:
- The Cassandra Database Engineer is an expert across NOSQL database technologies but specifically a specialist on Cassandra database administration.
- For this position, NOSQL database expertise is mandatory with a primary focus on Cassandra databases, as well as expertise in Public Cloud technology (AWS and/or GCP).
- For this mission, the engineer will primarily be responsible for database operational activities.
Essential Functions / Key Areas of Responsibility
- The Database Engineer primary responsibility footprint:
- Database performance analysis and operations review for production database platforms
- Manage database operations activities including incident response, database alert resolution, and managing third party support engagement
- Deploy and maintain database monitoring solutions.
- Test and build database restore and recovery procedures
- Database platform deployment, installation, patching, change management, and third-party software upgrades.
- Responsible for database hardening procedure identification and deployment on public cloud, hosted, and on-premises platforms.
- Responsible for providing database expertise and operations support to the technical support teams and project delivery teams.
- Responsible for participating in database platform review, bench and tuning exercises, security evaluation, provide technical analysis and proactive recommendations for improvements and/or design changes for production platforms
Minimum Requirements: Skills, Experience & Education
- HS diploma with 8+ experience in Cassandra administration (NOT architecture or design)
- College degree in Computer Science preferred + 8-10 years’experience
- NOSQL Database: 8-10 years Cassandra administration
- Extensive background with public cloud database deployment, management, and migration.
- Expertise in database concepts, defining standards, processes, and procedures in database deployment methodologies
- Expert in operations of high-profile production database platforms with high SLA and high-performance expectation
- High level of experience in managing change on production database platform on hosted, on premise, and cloud database platforms
- Expert in deploying high availability database architectures.