Devops, Site Reliability (Sre)

Who we are:
For over 20 years, Global Relay has set the standard in enterprise information archiving with industry-leading cloud archiving, surveillance, eDiscovery, and analytics solutions. We securely capture and preserve the communications data of the world’s most highly regulated firms, giving them greater visibility and control over their information and ensuring compliance with stringent regulations.
Though we offer competitive compensation and benefits and all the other perks one would expect from an established company, we are not your typical technology company. Global Relay is a career-building company. A place for big ideas. New challenges. Groundbreaking innovation. It’s a place where you can genuinely make an impact – and be recognized for it.
We believe great businesses thrive on diversity, inclusion, and the contributions of all employees. To that end, we recruit candidates from different backgrounds and foster a work environment that encourages employees to collaborate and learn from each other, completely free of barriers.
We encourage you to apply if your qualifications and experience are a good fit for any of our openings.
Your Role:
In this DevOps role, which is embedded in a development team, you are responsible for ensuring our Cassandra platform is running optimally in both production and development/test environments. At Global Relay you'll use leading edge technologies to deploy and manage 1000's of servers and the infrastructure that delivers a highly scalable and available service. Your expertise in Cassandra will help in DBA activities like ensuring smooth operation (including patching and any needed migration), monitoring, performance tuning and troubleshooting of both production and dev/test databases. You will also play a role in proposing solutions, automating processes, documenting systems components and contributing to the overall product.
The role involves cross-team collaboration and communication; you will be working closely with key stakeholders to ensure that product requirements are met. This is an opportunity to influence the design and implementation of systems at scales that many do not get a chance to work at.
Your Job:

• Assisting with the design, implementation, and on-going support of Cassandra DB
• Configure, administer, monitor and manage Cassandra clusters in multiple datacenters
• Troubleshoot production issues
• Backup/Restore
• Follow and help foster industry standard DevOps/SRE processes
• Ensuring Cassandra DBs are running efficiently in all relevant environments
• Performance tuning of Cassandra clusters and JVM applications
• Experience with Cassandra maintenance tasks such as repair, expansion and replacing failed nodes

Tech Stack:

• Continuous Integration Systems (Jenkins, Bamboo)
• Build & Deployment Automation (Git, Bitbucket, Maven, Ansible, Python, Bash, Java, Kubernetes)
• Instrumentation & Monitoring (splunk, zabbix)
• Big Data Technology (Cassandra, Zookeeper, Hadoop, Kafka)

About You:

• Experience with other Big data/persistence systems (Kafka and Hadoop preferred)
• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related field
• 3+ years of solid Cassandra DBA experience including work in live production systems
• Capable of finding performance bottlenecks and performance tune
• System level understanding including network interfaces, storage-devices, CPU and memory layouts
• Expert in data structure design, Data Modelling in Cassandra
• Hands on experience with some scripting languages (Python preferred)
• The following would also be considered an asset:
• Hands on experience with Linux and Bash systems
• Able to work effectively in a team setup in an agile environment
• Programming skills (Java preferred)
• In-depth knowledge of Cassandra architecture
• Log analysis and monitoring (Splunk preferred)

What you can expect:
At Global Relay, there’s no ceiling to what you can achieve. It’s the land of opportunity for the energetic, the intelligent, the driven. You’ll receive the mentoring, coaching, and support you need to reach your career goals. You’ll be part of a culture that breeds creativity and rewards perseverance and hard work. And you’ll be working alongside smart, talented individuals from diverse backgrounds, with complementary knowledge and skills.
Global Relay is an equal-opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
We seek to ensure reasonable adjustments, accommodations, and personal time are personalized to meet the unique needs of every individual.
We understand flexible work arrangements are important, and we encourage that in our work culture. Whether it’s flexibility around work hours, workstyle, or lifestyle, we want to ensure our employees have a healthy work/life balance. We support and value a hybrid work model that blends collaboration with the team in the office and focus time from the comfort of your home.
To learn more about our business, culture, and community involvement, visit www.globalrelay.com.