Centraprise Visa Sponsorship USA

Teradata Infrastructure DBA

Seattle, WA/ St.Louis, MO/ Plano, TX

Fulltime

Job Description:

Must have:

- Teradata platform expertise
- Deep knowledge of Teradata architecture: parsing, BYNET, AMP, vproc, fallback, hashing, PDCR, fallback, and spool management.
- Data distribution and primary index design; collecting statistics and understanding optimizer behavior.
- Experience with recent Teradata versions and releases migration/upgrade planning: TD 16.XX, TD 17.XX and preferably TD 20.XX.
- System administration
- Provisioning and managing Teradata nodes and clusters (physical and virtual).
- OS-level skills: Linux administration (SLES/RHEL/CentOS/Oracle Linux) for Teradata on Linux, including kernel tuning, package management, user and permissions management.
- Storage subsystem knowledge: SAN, NAS, Fibre Channel, LUNs, RAID, and how storage impacts Teradata I/O and spool.

• Performance tuning and troubleshooting
• SQL query and plan analysis; collecting and interpreting Explain plans.
• Workload management (WLM) and resource allocation: query prioritization, throttling, and KRI/SLAs.
• Monitoring and diagnostics: using Teradata tools and logs to analyze spool, CPU, memory, disk I/O, network, BYNET contention.
• Backup, recovery & high availability
• Best practices for backups restore procedures, and disaster recovery (DR) planning and testing.

• Knowledge of fallback, AMP resilience, replication methods and physical vs logical protection.

• Security & compliance

• DB and platform-level security: roles, privileges, LDAP/Kerberos integration, encryption (at rest/in transit), auditing and compliance (SOx and Others as applicable).

• Secure configuration and hardening practices.

• Networking & infrastructure

• Network architecture for Teradata clusters, VLANs, link aggregation, low-latency requirements, and BYNET tuning.

• Integration with enterprise infrastructure: DNS, NTP, monitoring stacks, and identity providers.

• Automation, scripting & tools

• Scripting languages: Bash, Python, Perl for automation, maintenance, and custom monitoring. – one of them
• Configuration management and automation tools: Ansible, Terraform, Chef, or Puppet (as used in the enterprise). – one of them
• Familiarity with Teradata utilities and tools: BTEQ, FastLoad, MultiLoad, TPT (Teradata Parallel Transporter), DBSControl, Viewpoint, Teradata Studio/SQL Assistant. – one of them
• Observability & tooling
• Use of monitoring/alerting tools (Viewpoint, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Nagios, etc.) and designing dashboards and alerts. One of them, Viewpoint is mandatory

• Capacity planning, trending, and forecasting for CPU, disk, spool, and concurrency.

• Soft skills & organizational capabilities

• Incident management and on-call experience
• Leading postmortems, RCA (root-cause analysis), implementing corrective actions.
• Communication and stakeholder management: vendors, management, and applications
• Translate technical impacts to business stakeholders; coordinate with DBAs, developers, network/storage teams, and vendors.

Good to have:

- Project & change management
- Experience driving upgrades, migrations, and maintenance windows; adherence to change control and rollback plans.
- Mentoring and leadership
- Mentoring other DBAs, establishing runbooks, knowledge transfer, and operational documentation.
- Track record of successful upgrades/migrations, complex performance tuning wins, DR tests, and SLA-driven operations.
- Proven examples of measurable improvements (reduced query runtimes, increased concurrency, reduced downtime).
- Up-to-date knowledge of Teradata product direction (e.g., Vantage features) and integration with modern data ecosystems.

• Cloud & Virtualization

• Years of experience: typically 5–10+ years in enterprise data platforms; several years specifically on Teradata for senior/system roles.

• Certifications (valuable, not always required)

• Teradata Certified Professional / Teradata Certified Administrator (current).
• Linux certifications (RHCSA/RHCE) and cloud provider certifications (AWS/Azure/GCP) where cloud deployments exist.

Role and Responsibilities:

- Installs, configures and upgrades Teradata software and related products.
- Backup, restore, migrate Teradata data and objects.
- Establish and maintain backup and recovery policies and procedures.
- Manages and monitor system performance; proactively monitor the database systems to ensure secure services with minimum downtime.
- Implements and maintains database security.
- Sets up and maintains documentation and standards.
- Supports multiple Teradata Systems including independent marts/enterprise warehouse.
- Work with the team to ensure that the associated hardware resources allocated to the databases and to ensure high availability and optimum performance.
- Responsible for improvement and maintenance of the databases to include rollout and upgrades.
- Responsible for implementation and release of database changes as submitted by the development team, working with end customer.
- Teradata, customer, datacenter, vendor coordination.
- Forecast data, security audits.
- User account and access management.
- Teradata active system management and customer requests and system allocation.
- Backup and recovery.
- SOX compliance and audits.
- DB support from 3rd party vendors.
- Product evaluations.
- On-call support and major incidents.
- Backup restore, frequency and retention.
- Disaster recovery.