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