Sr. Manager, Cassandra Team

Job Summary:

Join our database team and become an integral core member of a group supporting the world’s largest ticketing system. We are on a journey to build a set of new generation database tools to build, manage and operate various databases in AWS with a “infrastructure as code” mindset and migrating databases from our On-Prem private cloud to AWS. We use various database RDBMS and NoSQL technologies. We support multiple databases platforms - running on both private and public cloud infrastructure - powering the world’s largest ticketing system and serving 170M customers. You will be working on some of the latest database technology, and will have an excellent opportunity to grow your career with a team with a great culture!

Sr. Manager – Cassandra Team

Job Description

• Manager a team with 5 - 8 team members, FTEs and CTEs, which provide 24*7 support to the company’s critical data platform.
• Provide vendor management, budget management and contract management assistant to the leadership.
• Evaluate user requests, requirements and growth of the noSQL services and provide the solution to meet the department goals, including onboarding procedure build and practice,  self-services tools feature specs written and implementation, cost analyzes and forecasting, security hardening, agnostic monitoring solution for both OnPrem and Public Cloud, define the success metrics and measure the success.
• Conduct company’s strategic planning, respond to Sr leadership for goal setting, initiative and  implementation 
• Practice and apply engineering principles on day to day work (scrum and agile) and guide the team into the same mindset.
• During resource constraints, serve as backfill of other internal team members’ duties
• Promote our managed services and provide consultations to the engineering teams to ensure  the right technology/managed services are leveraged for their applications.
• Act as a tech lead on large scale projects to manage multiple resources, budget forecast, respond to sr leadership, manage the timeline of delivery and the quality of the delivery.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of managing team experience.
• 8+ years experience working with distributed key-value databases and systems, design and operation, such as but not limited to AWS DynamoDB, Apache Cassandra, ScyllaDB, DataStax Enterprise, and/or DataStax Luna.
• 5+ years of experience with AWS environment and familiar AWS network components related to running distributed databases, such as but not limited to VPC, Subnets, IGW, Security Groups and Route Tables.
• 5+ years of experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management (Ansible, Terraform  or others), can orchestrate and automate complex administrative tasks.
• Strong understanding of the concept of distributed databases/systems introduced in Amazon’s Dynamo Paper.
• Strong conceptual understanding of the major distributed databases and systems which are inspired by the concepts introduced in Dynamo Paper.
• Experience and strong capability of driving new technologies adaption to the organization.
• Have successful experience of driving multi-years large scope projects end to end.  

Who you are:

• Have excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
• Have experience working in a distributed remote team environment.
• Have a natural drive to learn new technologies, participate in PoC, and provide the best datastore solutions to meet the business requirements.
• Have a high inclination to document recurrent and/or learned knowledge or processes and share them with the team, so that others can continue to contribute, while freeing yourself to work on other projects.
• Engineering mindset with a focus on fact-based discussions, motivated to eliminate repetitive manual tasks through automation.
• Fast learner who can adopt new technologies quickly.
• Understand and ready to adopt SDLC and Agile best practices.
• Know your way around Linux and the Unix Shell.
• Have a strong propensity to work independently as well as willing to collaborate with others.

Required Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related fields.

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The expected compensation for this position is:

** Pay is based on a number of factors including market location, qualifications, skills, and experience.