Cassandra / Mongodb DevOps

Cassandra / MongoDB devops

6MONTHS

SHEFFIELD - HYBRID

CONTRACT

**Experienced Cassandra / MongoDB devops person who has done optimisation of database performance.**

**Principal responsibilities**
- Own the day-to-day health, uptime, monitoring, and reliability of services and server infrastructure
- Minimize manual involvement by implementing continuous improvements that create an operating environment, including the development of new tools, dynamically monitoring, alerting, automated self-healing recovery
- Perform root cause analysis to identify implement continuous improvements
- Capable of presenting analyses and recommendations to leadership or discussing the technical merits of solutions with engineers and architects
- Engineer solutions on GCP foundation platform using Infrastructure as Code methods (e.g. Terraform)
- Ensure compliancy with Operational risk standards (E.g. Network, Firewall, OS, Logging, Monitoring, Availability, Resiliency
- Build and support continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD) and continuous testing activities

**Requirements**:

- Hands on experience on Cassandra / MongoDB noSQL solutions in performance optimisation
- Experience of building a range of Services in a Cloud Service provider (ideally GCP)
- Demonstrable Cloud service provider experience (ideally GCP) - infrastructure build and configurations of a variety of services including Compute, Storage
- Experience in containerized solution, e.g. docker/GKE
- Security and Compliance, e.g. IAM and cloud compliance/auditing/monitoring tools
- Experience in Linux compute system, e.g. file system/schedule system/boot system and essential command with shell.
- Excellent skills in at least one of following: Python, Ruby, Java, JavaScript, Go, Groovy, Scala
- Expert understanding of DevOps principles and Infrastructure as a Code concepts and techniques
- Strong understanding of DevOPS/CI/CD and available tools, including Jenkins, Cloudbees, Ansible
- Experienced in full automation and configuration management
- A track record of constantly looking for ways to do things better and an excellent understanding of the mechanism necessary to successfully implement change
- A successful track record of delivering complex projects and/or programmes, utilising appropriate techniques and tools to ensure and measure success, as well as making a good documentation to record what we have achieved.
- Built effective networks across business areas, developing relationships based on mutual trust and encouraging others to do the same
- Customer/stakeholder focus. Ability to build strong relationships with Application teams, cross functional IT and global/local IT teams
- Operational effectiveness - delivers solutions that align to approved design patterns and security standards
- A comprehensive understanding of risk management and proven experience of ensuring own/others' compliance with relevant regulatory processes.
- Hands-on with opensource products/services will be a plus, e.g. Kafka/Rabbit/Zookeeper/Keycloak/Cassandra/Mongo/ClickHouse/Airflow/Beam/Grafana/Promethuse/ Telegraf/Nginx/Jupyter
- Excellent written and spoken communication skill will be a plus.
- Problem-solving and critical thinking mindset will be a plus.

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**Job Types**: Full-time, Fixed term contract

Pay: £625.00-£681.55 per day

**Benefits**:

- Life insurance
- Referral programme
- Relocation assistance

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday

**Experience**:

- DevOps: 1 year (preferred)

Ability to Commute:

- Sheffield (required)

Ability to Relocate:

- Sheffield: Relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person