Job Details

Client
12+ months
Pay Rate: $55/hr on W2 without benefits
Must be on your W2, unable to subvend
Ilabor: 154453
Location: 100% Remote

Project:

1. This team owns a data platform that communicates with Client's online banking & exposes data like account balances, credit card balances, etc. This is business critical data/functionality, so any changes to the applications/configurations need to be done in a way that can maintain operations and limit disruption to users
2. There is an audit of their platform going on that is uncovering some security risks that need to be addressed within the Cassandra DB
3. Additionally, they are migrating from on-prem to Azure - planning to have this complete by Q2 of 2026. Also considering migrating to Yugabyte

1. Taking requirements from the audit team as to what changes need to be made within the database & update configurations accordingly
2. Ensure that all new functionality within the DB meets the updated requirements based on the audit results
3. Configure & enable SSL and LDAP
4. Observability/monitoring alerts using Prometheus & Grafana
5. Performance tuning, backup/recovery, troubleshooting, etc.

1. Cassandra expertise - they do not have much Cassandra knowledge on the team, need someone who is able to identify gaps in the platform and provide recommendations for solutions
2. Only need DBA as the data modeling & database development is complete, but any Cassandra development experience would be a plus
3. Ansible & AWX - all operational pipelines will be on Ansible with AWX
4. Knowledge of Jenkins pipelines and Terraform for IaC for automating DB deployments, automating cluster set up, etc.

1. GitLab CI
2. Python
3. Financial services experience - especially experience with audits