Huxley
Cassandra Database Engineer
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Cassandra Experienced Data Engineer Needed!
I'm currently supporting one of my investment banking clients who are looking to bring on a Data Engineer on an initial 6 month contract with scope of extension with Cassandra experience. The role will require 2-3 days a week in the London office with my client being able to pay up to £700 per day inside IR35.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement and maintain Apache Cassandra clusters, including keyspace design, replication strategies and partitioning models.
- Develop and optimise data models aligned to query patterns (denormalization, partition key design, avoiding hotspots and wide partitions).
- Performance tuning: compaction strategies, consistency levels, read/write path optimisation, JVM/GC tuning.
- Manager cluster operations: node additions/decommissions, repairs (node tool), backups and disaster recovery.
- Monitor cluster health using tools such as Prometheus/Grafana, OpsCenter, or equivalent.
- Support CQL query development and advice application teams on best-practice access patterns.
- Collaborate with infrastructure and security teams on hardening, encryption (at rest/in transit) and authentication/authorisation (RBAC).
- Produce technical documentation including data models, runbooks, and operational procedures.
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