Cassandra DBA

Please go through the JD,Position:Location:Duration: 12 MonthsClient:Visa Restrictions: NoneSub Vending: NoPay Rate: $50/Hr on W2 without benefitsBill Rate: 72.41Candidate must have a Public Profile.Exclusive to ApexJob DescriptionClient | RemoteCassandra DBA6 Month+ ContractProject: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 usersThere is an audit of their platform going on that is uncovering some security risks that need to be addressed within the Cassandra DBAdditionally, they are migrating from on-prem to Azure – planning to have this complete by Q2 of 2026. Also considering migrating to YugabyteResponsibilities:Taking requirements from the audit team as to what changes need to be made within the database & update configurations accordinglyEnsure that all new functionality within the DB meets the updated requirements based on the audit resultsConfigure & enable SSL and LDAPObservability/monitoring alerts using Prometheus & GrafanaPerformance tuning, backup/recovery, troubleshooting, etc.Must Haves: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 solutionsOnly need DBA as the data modeling & database development is complete, but any Cassandra development experience would be a plusAnsible & AWX – all operational pipelines will be on Ansible with AWXKnowledge of Jenkins pipelines and Terraform for IaC for automating DB deployments, automating cluster set up, etc.