Teradata Infrastructure DBA-4

Teradata Infrastructure DBA-4 Seattle, WA Job Details Full-time $160,000 a year 1 hour ago Qualifications Resource allocation Data encryption System hardening Data replication Data storage System troubleshooting Incident management Automation Ansible Data migration Technical documentation 5 years Database backup and recovery IT system monitoring Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) administration High availability architecture Configuration management SOX Software installation Database security management Bash System maintenance SQL Information security compliance

VLAN AWS

Release management Access control implementation Virtualization Improving database performance Terraform Splunk Perl LDAP Mentoring DNS Network architecture SAN Puppet Teradata Prometheus Grafana Network monitoring tools RHCE Root cause analysis Nagios Senior level Chef Log analysis

RHCSA RHEL

Leadership Information security auditing Project stakeholder communication Python Cloud services High availability Identity & access management Stakeholder management System performance monitoring IT disaster recovery planning Full Job Description Seattle, Washington 98039 Posted March 12th, 2026 Looking for more job opportunities? Click here!

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IT Job Description Role:

Teradata Infrastructure DBA Location:

Seattle, WA/ Dallas TX (Day 1 onsite) FTE only 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, 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. 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 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 Required Skills

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