Teradata Infrastructure DBA

Teradata Infrastructure DBA

Location: Remote with Travel

Duration: Fulltime

Job Description:

Skills Desired:

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, View point 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.

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 co-ordinations

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

Create long range disaster recovery

Customer feedback survey

Experienced in performance optimization techniques and Structured Query Language (SQL) tuning.

Demonstrated knowledge of Performance Data Collection and Reporting (PDCR) and Database Query Logging (DBQL)

Ability to write complex Teradata SQL queries, stored procedures, triggers, functions