Senior Teradata EDW Platform Engineer
Goodfit
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Job summary
OCTO is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to administer the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) across Production, Test and Development/Disaster Recovery environments in Michigan. You will coordinate long-term EDW strategies with agencies, manage vendor communications, and drive delivery of EDW platform services to meet business requirements.
The role requires 3+ years in Teradata platform administration, monitoring, security, and automation, with strong scripting skills and knowledge of cloud
Qualifications
- Teradata database experience and administration across production and development platforms.
- Scripting and automation skills with BASH, Perl and Python for maintenance tasks.
- Teradata Viewpoint, TTU, PSIM administration experience.
- Experience with vendor upgrades and workload management.
- Teradata backup & recovery, performance tuning, and ETL workflows.
- Unix/Linux proficiency, networking basics, and firewall concepts.
- Cloud fundamentals with Azure; understanding of resource allocation.
- Knowledge of security, audits and federal requirements (NIST 800-53, IRS Pub 1075).
- Statistics or data governance awareness is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Serve as platform administrator for Enterprise Data Warehouse (Production, Test, Dev/DR).
- Coordinate long-term EDW strategies with clients, DTMB, and vendors.
- Define technical planning, implementation, and delivery of EDW platforms.
- Handle vendor communication, escalation, and patch management.
- Provide OS guidance and EDW security expertise; advise on disaster recovery.
- Monitor platform performance and resolve performance issues; support DBAs.
Skills
Job description
OCTO is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to administer the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) across Production, Test and Development/Disaster Recovery environments in Michigan. You will coordinate long-term EDW strategies with agencies, manage vendor communications, and drive delivery of EDW platform services to meet business requirements.
The role requires 3+ years in Teradata platform administration, monitoring, security, and automation, with strong scripting skills and knowledge of cloud
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