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YugabyteDB Devops/DBA engineer
Expert In Recruitment Solutions
🇺🇸 United States
On-site
4 months ago
- YugabyteDB
- Devops
- Terraform
- Ansible
- GitLab
- Cassandra
- SQL
- PostgreSQL
- Configuration Management
- Azure
- AWS
- CI/CD
- IaC
- CockroachDB
- ScyllaDB
- Python
- Bash
4 months ago
Location: 100 percent remote
Contract: 6 months to perm
Interview process: 2 video interviews to hire
Must have: distributed database experience with YugabyteDB, Terraform, Ansible, Gitlab, and cloud experience.
Project Overview
The ODP team is building out a greenfield YugabyteDB platform to serve as a centralized, real-time analytics database. The long-term vision is to treat this as a single platform where any team at Client can come in and pick a single tool or leverage the full stack. They kicked off the Yugabyte initiative last year, so the environment is still early-stage and growing.
A major initiative is migrating ~750 Cassandra nodes to YugabyteDB — a significant effort given the scale. YugabyteDB is a distributed SQL database compatible with both PostgreSQL and Cassandra Query Language (CQL), which makes it a natural successor to Cassandra with the added benefit of strong consistency and SQL support.
Key Responsibilities
- Automate the entire stack — the goal is a "click of a button" deployment where the full YugabyteDB platform is installed and configured end-to-end
- Build and maintain automation using Terraform (infrastructure provisioning) and Ansible (configuration management)
- Support the migration from Cassandra → YugabyteDB
- Clusters currently running on Azure; AWS environment is being set up for Identity (ID) workloads and will go to production next quarter
- GitLab for CI/CD — pipelines are already built, so this person will be working within an existing CI/CD framework
- First few months will be heavily focused on automation
- Production support is handled by a separate team, so this role is focused on build/automation, not on-call
Team Structure
- Small team
- This is a combo DBA + DevOps/Automation role — they need someone who understands database internals but can also build infrastructure-as-code and automation tooling
Must-Have Skills
- Distributed database experience — YugabyteDB is ideal, but Cassandra or similar (e.g., CockroachDB, ScyllaDB) will suffice
- Terraform and Ansible — core to the automation work
- CI/CD experience (GitLab preferred)
- Cloud experience — Azure and/or AWS
Nice-to-Have Skills
- YugabyteDB-specific experience
- Cassandra migration experience
- Multi-cloud deployment experience (Azure + AWS)
- Scripting (Python, Bash)
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