Cassandra DBA W2

Job Description

Note the nice thing about BNSF is contracts do not end. People stay as long as they want

 

• Required
• B.S. degree from an accredited university.
• Two or more year’s total experience as physical DBA in the Cassandra platform.
• Strong understanding of the Cassandra data model and architecture including installation, configuration of a cluster.
• Strong understanding of complex inner workings of Cassandra, such as the gossip protocol, hinted handoffs, read repairs, Merkle trees and Staged Event-Driven Architecture (SEDA).
• Strong understanding of what Replicas are, replica Placement Strategies, Partitions, Snitches, Dynamic Ring Participation and Security with in Cassandra.
• Five or more year’s total experience as physical DBA in a major RDBMS technology.
• Two or more year’s total experience in SQL.
• Two or more years of experience in database/application performance tuning and monitoring tools.
• Experience in database problem identification, problem diagnosis and resolution.
• Experience in building data architecture models and enforcing enterprise architecture standards and guidelines.
• Experience in implementing database high availability solutions.
• Candidate has excellent communication – ability to explain a technical problem to management.
• Candidate is a team player. Shares knowledge. Coaches team members.
• Ability to work on high performing teams and deliver under pressure situations.
• Preferred
• Experience in working with NoSQL database technologies.
• Experience in coding and/or debugging stored procedures
• Experience in working on complex application issues in a multi-tiered environment.
• Functional experience in multi-tiered application design and implementation.
• Functional experience in the development of railroad application systems would be desirable.