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With our strategic partner Accenture, we work alongside our Vodafone customers, other Telco and tech companies to drive transformation, meet the challenges of our industry and ensure we stay relevant and resilient. This partnership is a unique, industry-first model which brings together the best of in-house and 3rd party capability.\nWe work with customers across 28 countries from 10 VOIS locations: Albania, Egypt, Hungary, India, Romania, Spain, Turkey, UK, Germany, Ireland, and with a network of teams in Czech Republic, Italy, Greece, and Portugal.\n#VOIS #BeUnrivalled #CreateTheFuture\nAbout this Role\nWe are seeking an experienced Cassandra Application Database Administrator with 7-10 years of database operations experience and strong hands-on expertise in Cassandra administration.\nIn this individual contributor role, you will support production and non-production Cassandra environments, ensuring database stability, availability, performance and operational resilience. 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