Senior DevOps Engineer

Teradata Group; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Teradata is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer for Cloud Platform Services to design and operate multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. You will build IaC with Terraform, automate provisioning, and enhance CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or Jenkins.

You will improve platform observability, reliability, and security, collaborating with cross-functional teams to scale Teradata compute infrastructure and support lifecycle management.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Hands-on with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Experience with Terraform and other IaC tools.
• Strong scripting in Python or Bash.
• CI/CD pipelines experience with GitHub Actions / Jenkins.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes, cloud networking, security.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Terraform IaC solutions and cloud-native services.
• Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar.
• Automate provisioning, deployments, scaling, and decommissioning across clouds.
• Build and maintain platform observability with monitoring and dashboards.
• Improve reliability, security, and efficiency via automation and self-healing.
• Manage cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
• Collaborate with software, networking, security and infra teams.
• Support incident response, RCA, and continuous service improvement.
• Drive DevOps, SRE, infra automation, and cloud-ops best practices.
• Contribute to architecture discussions for large-scale distributed systems.

Skills

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

AWS

Azure

GCP

Python

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

DevOps

SRE

Platform Engineering

Monitoring

Cloud Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline (6+ years)

Advanced degree (4+ years)

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Job description

Senior DevOps Engineer – Cloud Platform Services

Our Company

At Teradata, we believe that people thrive when empowered with better information. Teradata Autonomous Knowledge Platform activates enterprise intelligence by unifying data, knowledge and business context to achieve tangible outcomes. With Teradata, organizations can provide agents with full context for impact when it matters. Our solution lets businesses connect and scale on premises, in the cloud, or through a hybrid approach. Teradata delivers real business value with AI.

Partnering with top companies around the world, Teradata helps improve customer experience, mitigate risk, drive product innovation, achieve operational excellence, transform finance, and optimize assets.

Teradata is recognized by media and industry analysts as a future-focused company for its technological excellence, sustainability, ethics, and business value.

The Teradata culture is built on diversity, collaboration, and innovation. Individuals with different backgrounds and perspectives come together with a shared goal of making Teradata and our people the best we can be.

Our Team

• This position is for a Senior DevOps Engineer in the Platform Services team within the Vantage Core Platform Software organization.
• The team builds cloud platform services powering provisioning, deployment, operations, and lifecycle management of Teradata compute infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
• Key focus areas include:

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and cloud automation
• CI/CD platforms and release automation
• Cloud infrastructure provisioning and lifecycle management
• Observability, monitoring, and operational excellence
• Platform reliability, security, and compliance automation
• Multi-cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes-based services

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform and cloud-native services.
• Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar platforms.
• Automate provisioning, deployment, upgrades, scaling, and decommissioning workflows across public clouds.
• Build and maintain platform observability solutions including monitoring, logging, alerting, and dashboards.
• Improve platform reliability, security, and operational efficiency through automation and self-healing capabilities.
• Manage cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud environments.
• Collaborate with software engineering, networking, security, and infrastructure teams to deliver scalable platform services.
• Support incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous service improvement initiatives.
• Drive best practices for DevOps, SRE, infrastructure automation, and cloud operations.
• Contribute to architecture discussions and operational readiness for large-scale distributed systems.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
• Strong scripting and programming skills in Python, Bash, or similar languages.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent tools.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, IAM, security, and distributed systems.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, or Cloud-native equivalents.
• Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and operational excellence mindset.

Nice to Have

• Experience operating large-scale multi-cloud infrastructure platforms.
• Experience with platform engineering and internal developer platforms.
• Experience with Kubernetes operators, service meshes, and GitOps workflows.
• Familiarity with compliance, security automation, and cloud governance frameworks.
• Experience supporting highly available production systems with SRE practices.

Minimum Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline with 6+ years of relevant experience.
• Advanced degree with 4+ years of relevant experience.

Key Skills (for recruiting search optimisation)

Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, AWS, Azure, GCP, Python, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE, Cloud Automation, Monitoring, Observability, Incident Management.

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