Staff Virtualization Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401(k) retirement savings plan

Life and disability insurance

Job summary

Teradata Corporation (SE) is seeking a Staff Virtualization Engineer to join their Infrastructure Engineering team in Madison, Wisconsin. The role involves developing their hybrid-first platform, focusing on virtualization technology, and collaborating with various teams to deliver customer-driven improvements. Candidates should possess extensive knowledge in virtualization solutions, scripting skills, and relevant educational qualifications. Competitive salary ranging from $132,900 to $199,300 annually, plus comprehensive benefits including healthcare and retirement plans.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience with virtualization technology.
• Experience debugging issues within vSphere clusters.
• VMware Certified Advanced Professional.

Responsibilities

• Work with the Infrastructure Engineering team on the hybrid-first platform.
• Perform software engineering duties including problem analysis and testing.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to improve testing strategies and processes.

Skills

Expert knowledge of virtualization technology

KVM

vSphere

vMotion

Network virtualization

Infrastructure as Code

Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Scripting languages (Python, PowerShell, JavaScript)

Education

Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related discipline

Masters degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related discipline

PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related discipline

Tools

PowerCLI

Terraform

Job description

What You’ll Do

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.

• Work in a team of highly skilled engineers to perform software engineering duties such as problem analysis, code review, design, develop, test, troubleshoot, document and support.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to continuously improve test strategies and processes.
• Conduct end-to-end testing to validate functionality, stability, and integration.
• Evaluate, improve, and maintain information security throughout the virtualized infrastructure.
• 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 DevOps 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.

Who You’ll Work With

This position is for a Staff Virtualization Engineer 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.

What Makes You a Qualified Candidate

• 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, RedHat/OpenShift).
• Solid knowledge in automating VMware environment using any of the following language PowerCLI, 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.
• 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, PowerShell, or JavaScript.
• VMware Certified Advanced Professional.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related discipline with 7+ years of work experience.
• Masters degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related discipline with 5+ years of work experience.
• PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related discipline with 2+ years of work experience requirement.

What You’ll Bring

• Broad understanding of technology and systems while investigating and solving complex problems.
• Consolidate or expand reports to communicate effectively to the appropriate audience (e.g., Executives, customers, team members).
• Demonstrate excellent analytical and judgement skills using factual and qualitative information from multiple sources.
• Openness to learn new things and work in a collaborative team environment.
• Delivers commitments on time with highest quality. Demonstrates speed as a habit and has a bias for action.
• Finds ways to learn and evolve, is curious, dives deep and asks questions.

Pay Rate: 132900.0000 - 166100.0000 - 199300.0000 Annually

Starting pay for the successful applicant will depend on geographic location, internal equity, job-related knowledge, skills, and candidate experience. Sales roles will be eligible for commission payments tied to quota achievement. All other permanent roles will be eligible for one of our annual incentive plans, which are based on company financial attainment and individual performance.

Employees in this position are also eligible to participate in the Company’s comprehensive benefits programs, which include healthcare, life and disability insurance plans, a 401(k)-retirement savings plan, and time-off programs. Specific details of these benefits, including eligibility criteria and plan options, will be provided during the hiring process and can be reviewed here: https://www.teradata.com/About-Users/Careers/Benefits

Teradata is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, ancestry, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related conditions), national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, military and veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We welcome and encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply and join our team, bringing their unique perspectives and experiences to help us innovate and grow. If you require accommodations during the interview process, please let your recruiter know and we will work with you to meet your needs.