Teradata Infrastructure DBA

Job Description

Must have

• Deep knowledge of Teradata architecture: parsing, BYNET, AMP, vproc, fallback, hashing, PDCR, 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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, Fast Load, Multi Load, TPT (Teradata Parallel Transporter), DBSControl, Viewpoint, Teradata Studio/SQL Assistant. – one of them

• 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.

• 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.

Project & change management

• Experience driving upgrades, migrations, and maintenance windows; adherence to change control and rollback plans.

• 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.

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

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

• 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…