YugabyteDB Devops/DBA engineer

Title-YugabyteDB Devops/DBA engineer
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)