The Cassandra guys I know get at least £1K per day. They are the top of the top but you can get paid serious bank doing SMACK stack type gigs
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shirlema
Instaclustr; Canberra, Australia; Onsite Operations and Support Engineer (Big Data, Cloud, Linux)
Basically, you get to help us with our managed platform for Cassandra, Spark, and (just announced) Zepplin; more technologies to come too; requirements are not ridiculous either
I'm a marketing grunt so no freaking clue on salary but should be competitive.
http://www.seek.com.au/Job/30699944?_ga=1.134724209.18382297...
Email me at scott.hirleman@Instaclustr.com for more info so I can connect you with the right people.
(grain of salt: I work in the Cassandra Community team at DataStax)
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