Virtualization Architect – Platform Infrastructure Engineering

Our Company

At Teradata, we believe that people thrive when empowered with better information. That’s why we built the most complete cloud analytics and data platform for AI. By delivering harmonized data, trusted AI, and faster innovation, we uplift and empower our customers—and our customers’ customers—to make better, more confident decisions. The world’s top companies across every major industry trust Teradata to improve business performance, enrich customer experiences, and fully integrate data across the enterprise.

In this role you will have the opportunity to work on the Infrastructure Engineering team to develop our world-class offering of Teradata hybrid-first platform that seamlessly integrates Enterprise Data Warehousing (EDW) with AI and analytics capabilities into a unified Lakehouse architecture. This platform empowers enterprises to manage traditional EDW, data analytics, and advanced AI workloads all within a single environment. The core focus is on delivering customer value through modular workload flexibility, scalability, and the unification of EDW with AI and analytics workloads, along with flexible hybrid deployment options.

• Provide strategic planning on product direction, design, and development
• Serve as a subject matter expert for all virtualization environments
• Evaluate, improve, and maintain information security throughout the virtualized infrastructure
• Take leading position in development of PoC, new feature implementation
• Drive virtualization best practices across customer enterprise
• Optimize network hardware and software to enable virtualization integration
• Detect early signals of at-risk features and applications about our platform product
• Work with our Dev Ops team to build and develop test tools and automation
• Coordinate cross-functional processes to deliver customer needs
• Collaborate closely with other organizations outside of Infrastructure Engineering to address new Teradata features and applications
• Perform root cause analysis of customer reported issues
• Contribute to product documentation and manuals

The successful candidate will have a deep understanding of virtualization and will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining our platform infrastructure on‑prem solution. They will work closely with cross‑functional teams to ensure that our platform infrastructure is efficient, reliable, and scalable.

This position is for a Principal Architect for our Platform Infrastructure team. Our team is comprised of engineers working on developing the latest on‑premises solution leveraging the most current virtualization technology (e.g., KVM, VMware), while driving to provide the highest performance on these newest offerings.

• Expert knowledge of virtualization technology including hypervisors and network virtualization
• Expert knowledge of KVM and Harvester
• Expert knowledge of vSphere, vSan, vMotion, vCenter and/or vRa
• Expert knowledge of best practice VMware deployment techniques
• Knowledge of VMWare alternatives (KVM/Nutanix, Red Hat/Open Shift)
• Solid knowledge in automating VMware environment using any of the following language Power
  
  CLI, python, go
• Has experience using Infrastructure as Code like Terraform to deploy VMware components
• Has experience debugging issues within vSphere cluster including but not limited to pktcap‑uw, esxtop and esxcli
• Expert knowledge of Deploying Virtualization Solutions in an Enterprise environment
• Expert knowledge of L2 and L3 network protocols
• Strong understanding of cloud technologies, such as AWS, Azure, and GCP
• Knowledge of programming/scripting languages, such as Python, Power Shell, or Java Script
• VMware Certified Advanced Professional

• Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related discipline with 15+ years of work experience
• Masters degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related discipline with 10+ years of work experience
• PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related discipline with 7+ years of work experience requirement

• Broad…