DBA- Cassandra

Full Time | Chennai | India

Industry : Information Technology and Services
Experience6 - 10 years
Compensation1,000,000 - 2,500,000
Openings1

Role Overview

Key Responsibilities

  • Administer, monitor, and maintain MariaDB/MySQL databases including installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, and routine maintenance.
  • Design, deploy, and support Cassandra clusters and contribute to architecture decisions for NoSQL systems.
  • Perform performance tuning and query optimization for both relational and NoSQL databases.
  • Implement and validate backup, recovery, and disaster recovery procedures and run regular restore tests.
  • Manage replication, sharding, and high availability configurations across environments.
  • Automate operational tasks using scripting and configuration management tools.
  • Monitor database health, set up alerting, and maintain observability dashboards.
  • Collaborate with development and DevOps teams on schema design, deployments, and incident response.
  • Document database architectures, runbooks, and operational procedures.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Proven experience as a DBA with strong, mandatory expertise in MariaDB/MySQL administration.
  • Experience with Cassandra or other wide-column NoSQL databases preferred.
  • Familiarity with Redis and MongoDB is advantageous.
  • Strong Linux administration and shell scripting capabilities.
  • Experience implementing backup and recovery strategies, replication, and HA solutions.
  • Comfortable with monitoring, capacity planning, and performance troubleshooting.
  • Excellent communication, documentation, and cross-team collaboration skills.

Skills

  • MySQL
  • MariaDB
  • Cassandra
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • SQL
  • NoSQL Databases
  • Performance Tuning
  • Query Optimization
  • Backup and Recovery
  • Replication
  • High Availability
  • Database Monitoring
  • Linux
  • Bash
  • Ansible
  • Automation
  • Capacity Planning
  • Docker
  • AWS
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