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# DSE/Cassandra DBA & DataStax Developer

- **Company:** Innominds Software
- **Location:** Pleasant Prairie, WI, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Performance Management, Bash Shell, Python (Programming Language), Performance Tuning, Ansible, Prometheus, Runbook, Shell Script, Apache Solr, Datastax, Grafana, Indexer, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Cassandra
- **Published:** August 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/64ce9430-ba9a-4259-9339-cc1ffb7247d7

## About the Role

* 7+ years Cassandra DBA experience, preferably with DataStax Enterprise (DSE)
 * DSE development experience including schema design, CQL optimization, and application performance tuning, * Strong Shell scripting (Bash/Python) for automation
 * Dashboard creation (Grafana, Prometheus, DSE OpsCenter)
 * Experience with Ansible for infrastructure automation
 * Excellent troubleshooting and performance tuning skills

Soft Skills:

 * Strong communication and documentation abilities
 * Cross-functional collaboration with development and operations teams

## Description

* DSE Platform Health Checks, capacity planning, and cluster tuning
 * DSE Core daily operations, patches, upgrades, and version migrations
 * Automation of DBA tasks using Ansible playbooks and scripting
 * Creation/maintenance of DSE Runbooks for operational consistency
 * Production timeout investigation and root cause analysis
 * Evaluate options for workload reduction and performance optimization
 * DSE Search/Solr integration and Storage-Attached Indexing (SAI) implementation


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