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 StarRocks, 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: - StarRocks, Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, SQL Server.