Instaclustr are currently searching for an experienced Cassandra Techops Engineer to join our growing Tech family.

Recently named in Deloitte’s 2020 fast 500 companies of North America, Instaclustr is a Canberra based Australian owned open source as-a-service company, delivering reliability at scale. We manage cutting edge open source technologies (Cassandra, Kafka, Spark, Elasticsearch) for our customers around the world. 

Since its foundation in 2013, Instaclustr has seen significant growth, with over 150 large scale and really exciting customers spread across the globe, and over 3000 servers under our management. We have offices in Australia, the USA, and Europe and employ over 120 people worldwide. 

What’s in it for you?

When you join our family this is what you can expect:

• Awesome social activities – New starter BBQs, cook offs, bowling, Badminton etc

• Regular games nights

• Special interest social groups

• Workplace flexibility and great work-life balance

• Growing global company

• Learn from incredibly talented people

• Start-up culture

• Exciting and fast-growing industry

• Company SWAG – Hoodies, t-shirt, thongs etc

• New Laptop

• Phone bill allowance

• A well defined career model and opportunities for progression

• Wellness club with free fitness training sessions and Wellbeing programs to nurture the body, mind and soul

Skills and experience

You will have at least four years working experience in addition to:

• Strong knowledge and experience in managing Apache Cassandra clusters at scale.

• Strong knowledge and experience in administrating Cassandra migrations without downtime.

• Designing and maintaining database architecture, data structures, tables, dictionaries and naming conventions to ensure the accuracy and completeness of all data master files.

• Testing Cassandra database systems and upgrades, such as debugging, tracking, reproduction, logging and resolving all identified problems, according to approved quality testing scripts, procedures and processes.

• Have extensive experience in identifying data modelling and architectural issues with Apache Cassandra.

• Implementing and administering database documentation, guidelines, policies and procedures.

• Strong knowledge and experience with Linux and be comfortable working fron the command line. This is essential, there are no GUIs here.

• Programming skills in Python, Java, bash scripting, SQL and source code control using Git.

• Exceptional ability to communicate clearly and professionally in written and verbal English (essential).

• Follow required processes and procedures to manage Cassandra databases in high availability environment.

• Demonstrated ability to multi-task.Work as part of a team and use your initiative to get things done.