Pactum/München, Bayern, Germany
This is a 6 month fixed term employment position, calling for experience of the Apache Cassandra database management system.
You will be placed on assignment based near Munich in Germany. Our client is a 16-nation intergovernmental research organisation for astronomy. The main working language is English.
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international partnership of Europe, North America and East Asia in cooperation with the Republic of Chile, is the largest astronomical project in existence. ALMA is a single telescope of revolutionary design, composed of 66 high precision antennas located on the Chajnantor plateau, at 5000 meters altitude in northern Chile. All antennas are now at the ALMA site and the Observatory is transitioning towards full-scale science operations.
A software engineer is sought to assist in the set-up of a Cassandra cluster to store, and allow querying of, time-series data from the hardware of the ALMA radio telescope in Chile. Readings are stored from 200,000 sensors, at a rate of up to one per second
A test cluster of 6 Servers is already in place and assistance is needed to improve this cluster, optimise the configuration, understand any issues, and help to draft operational procedures in conjunction with the operations team in Chile. Assistance is also needed in finding the optimal schema to store the data in a performant, flexible way. A secondary role would be to modify client code for accessing the data.
The key experience and attributes sought are:-
Experience of Cassandra is a must - from configuration to schema design.
An understanding of lower-level issues such as Linux and storage configuration is a plus.
A logical and thorough way of approaching problems is essential as is the ability to communicate clearly in English.
Nice-to-have skills include Java development and knowledge of Apache Spark
Candidates should possess a University degree or equivalent.
Pactum was established in 1988 and provides scientific system services and recruitment consultancy to clients throughout the UK and across continental Europe.
Duration: 6 months
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