Cloud Database Administrator

Job Description:

We are looking for an experienced Senior Cloud Database Engineer with deep expertise in Cassandra/Scylla to manage, scale, and optimize distributed data platforms. The role involves hands-on ownership of production clusters, automation to reduce operational toil, and close collaboration with engineering teams to ensure high availability, performance, and reliability.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage and operate large-scale Cassandra/Scylla clusters in production environments.

• Design, implement, and maintain backup and restore mechanisms to meet DR and compliance requirements.

• Automate operational tasks to reduce manual effort using Shell, Python, Ansible, and Terraform.

• Monitor system health and performance using Grafana and other open-source monitoring tools.

• Troubleshoot and resolve cassandra/scylla cluster-related issues including

• Node failures, Data consistency and table-level issues, High load and performance bottlenecks, Client connectivity problems.

• Create and maintain runbooks for alert handling and operational procedures.

• Implement and manage AWS security and networking components, including- Security Groups and network access controls, IAM roles, policies, and permissions, S3 bucket policies and access management, Auto Scaling Groups, VPC networking, subnets, routing, and connectivity considerations.

• Collaborate with teams to adopt best practices in AWS security and networking.

• Participate in on-call rotations and handle incident responses.

• Collaborate with teams to support data modeling best practices and optimize schema design.

• Support additional data technologies such as Star Rocks, AWS RDS, SQL Server, Snowflake, and Amazon Redshift.

• Mentor, train, and guide peers; share knowledge and operational best practices.

• Continuously evaluate and adopt new technologies to improve platform reliability and efficiency.

Qualifications:

Required Skills & Experience:

• 8+ years of hands-on experience managing Cassandra and/or Scylla in production.

• Strong experience with AWS Cloud services.

• Proficiency in Git for version control and collaboration.

• Solid experience in automation and infrastructure as code, including:

Shell scripting Python:

Ansible

Terraform

• Experience in backup/restore strategies, automation, and disaster recovery planning.

• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools such as Grafana or other open-source solutions.

• Strong troubleshooting skills across distributed systems and databases.

• Expert-level knowledge of data modeling, especially for NoSQL systems.

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.

• Ability to mentor, monitor, and train team members effectively.

• Willingness and ability to participate in on-call support.

• Experience in managing AWS RDS.

• Exposure to analytical and relational databases such as:

• Star Rocks, Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, SQL Server.