Senior Cloud Control Plane Architect

Teradata Corporation (SE); Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 132,900 - 199,300; Full time

Job summary

Teradata is seeking a Cloud Control Plane Engineer to help shape the next generation of its platform. In a greenfield environment you will design and build control plane services for lifecycle, provisioning, and orchestration across distributed infrastructure.

You will work with a senior Advanced Research Team inside the Office of the CTO, using AI-assisted tools and defining interfaces and APIs with a strong focus on scalability, security, and multi-environment operation.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and building distributed systems, platform services, or control layers.
• Strong familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience designing APIs, service orchestration, and system coordination patterns.
• Understanding of identity, access, and security models in distributed systems (e.g., OIDC, SAML).
• Programming experience in a backend language (Go, Java, Python, or similar).
• Experience designing systems with scalability, reliability, and cost-performance.

Responsibilities

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

Job description

Teradata is seeking a Cloud Control Plane Engineer to help shape the next generation of its platform. In a greenfield environment you will design and build control plane services for lifecycle, provisioning, and orchestration across distributed infrastructure.

You will work with a senior Advanced Research Team inside the Office of the CTO, using AI-assisted tools and defining interfaces and APIs with a strong focus on scalability, security, and multi-environment operation.