Senior Cassandra Engineer

About the role

ING Hubs Spain is looking for an experienced Cassandra Engineer to join its Data Services Area and help build, operate and evolve the Keyspace as a Service (KaaS) platform, a noSQL Cassandra offering in ING's private cloud. The team works within the Global Cloud Tribe, which delivers multi-tenant, self-service cloud infrastructure to application DevOps teams.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build, test and maintain the KaaS offerings together with the squad, product manager and architect.
• Take ownership of the Cassandra Keyspace as a Service provided to tenants.
• Create and maintain code in Azure DevOps repositories and distribute it via tools and pipelines.
• Propose solutions for modernising and monitoring the service, using automation experience, to ensure robust and future-proof operations.
• Work in an Agile / Scrum way of work and cooperate with global ING teams.
• Improve deployment and operational methods, take part in the 24/7 standby schedule once up to speed, and regularly take the Ops-person-of-the-day task.
• Run scheduled tasks that keep the team's service risk score as low as possible.

Required profile

• 3+ years operating Apache Cassandra in production.
• Experience supporting mission-critical Cassandra platforms.
• High level of English (C1).

Required skills

• Cassandra cluster administration and data modelling.
• Performance tuning and troubleshooting.
• Replication, consistency levels and capacity management.
• Backup/restore and disaster recovery strategies.

What we offer

• Flexible working: choose which days you work from home and which you come to ING Madrid.
• Restaurant card, health and life insurance for you and your family, and a pension plan after 1 month.
• Transport allowance and flexible remuneration model.
• Office facilities including electric mobility solutions, doctor, hairdresser, gym and errand help.