Cloud Control Plane Architect

Teradata Corporation (SE)

Richmond (VA)

On-site

USD 132,900 - 199,300

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Teradata Corporation (SE) is seeking a Cloud Control Plane Engineer to join a small, senior Advanced Research Team within the Office of the CTO. You will design and build control plane services that manage lifecycle, provisioning, and coordination of distributed infrastructure across multi-environment deployments.

You'll work in a greenfield environment, shaping control plane operation with ownership, scalability, and API-driven interfaces.

Qualifications

Experience designing distributed systems and platform services.
Strong familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures.
Experience designing APIs, service orchestration, and system coordination.
Understanding of identity and security models (OIDC, SAML, or similar).
Backend programming experience (Go, Java, Python, or similar).
Ability to work in environments where architecture and system boundaries are still being defined.

Responsibilities

Design and build control plane systems for lifecycle management, orchestration, and coordination of distributed infrastructure.
Define provisioning, scaling, and management via APIs and service-based interfaces.
Shape system behavior around scaling, availability, and multi-environment operation.
Design identity and access models, including OIDC/SAML or similar frameworks.
Build or extend control mechanisms such as controllers and coordination services.
Contribute to runtime-driven provisioning and lifecycle workflows that respond to demand.
Use AI-assisted tools to accelerate development and explore approaches.
Collaborate with infrastructure engineering to define clear boundaries between system layers.