Senior Database Engineer (Cassandra) Permanent

The Workshop is a tech company that develops intuitive software for the online gaming industry. Our motto is to move “Fearlessly Forward” together. Cooperative innovation is at the center of everything we do – from our games, new products and technologies, to how we collaborate and share inspiration with one another.

What we believe

We understand that great ideas come from great people, and great people thrive when they’re trusted to challenge, change, improve, and perfect our products and processes. Our forte lies in the diversity of our skills – and that comes from the diversity of our people.

Our commitment to you

The Workshop is committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace, where we all learn together, trust each other, and value collaboration. We welcome candidates of all genders, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, nationality, belief (or lack thereof), and programming language preference. As an equal opportunity employer, we offer a friendly, supportive working environment for all. It’s a place where you can try new ideas, take risks, and enjoy the support to move Fearlessly Forward.

What you´ll do

• As a Cassandra Engineer, you will administer our database platforms to ensure they remain online, secure, right-sized and have appropriate HADR solutions. This includes supporting a blockchain system built on Cassandra, Elasticsearch and MongoDB hosted in both public and private clouds.
• You will support our development lifecycle through feasibility, design and delivery to ensure the solutions we provide are automated, robust, scalable, maintainable and secure.
• You will promote and collaborate in the creation of solutions to drive automation, environment consistency, continuous delivery with an “everything as code” mentality.
• When appropriate you will lead on complex database tasks such as Information Lifecycle Management, very large table modifications, advanced query tuning and data-migrations
• Use your training budget and work time to keep up to date, and sometimes drive industry data platform trends and technology adoption.
• Collaborate with colleagues, application development teams, and with business stakeholders.
• Cross train peers in database development and administration. They will do the same for you.
• Provide out of hours production support as part of a 24/7 rota.

What you´ll bring:

• 3+ years experience supporting Apache Cassandra in a Production Environment
• A DevOps / automation first mindset.
• Practical Experience of the following :
• Automation tools (Ansible, Puppet, etc)
• Code versioning tools (GIT, SVN, etc)
• Scripting languages or programming frameworks (Python, Bash, Java, etc)
• Cloud platform solutions (AWS/GCP/Azure/Openstack)
• Current industry standards, trends and best practices
• Non-technical:
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills
• Open minded, willing to share knowledge and learn new skills
• Experience of the following would be useful but is not essential:
• Containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes)
• CI/CD Tools (AWX/Gitlab/ArgoCD)
• System administration and tuning of Linux-based servers

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