Senior Systems Engineer (Teradata)

Work Model Hybrid

Seeking a Senior Systems Engineer who is highly experienced in Teradata databases and it's tools and management.

SUMMARY

The State of Michigan maintains an enterprise data warehouse built on the Teradata ecosystem.

The Data Warehouse Service offered by DTMB provides customers the ability to conduct high performance analytics, data mining activities, and enhanced decision support capabilities.

Currently, the Data Warehouse Service employs Teradata technology.

This position will serve as a platform administrator for the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW), consisting of 3 distinct platforms (Production, Test and Development/Disaster Recovery). The EDW provides Enterprise Data Warehousing services to executive branch agencies as well as the State Court Administrator Offices statewide.

A total of 7 agencies are supported, with a user base of over 10,000 internal and external clients and 40 Terabytes of data. This position researches and coordinates long term EDW strategies with all current and potential clients, DTMB management and vendor personnel. This position defines the technical planning, implementation plan, and delivery of the EDW platform service and supporting technologies to meet the State of Michigan’s business requirements and objectives. This includes vendor communication, trouble reporting, escalated troubleshooting, and release/patch management. This position is responsible for providing operating system guidance along with EDW security expertise for the systems as well as advising the Agencies on disaster recovery planning strategies related to the EDW and their business applications. The position is also responsible for platform performance monitoring and resolving performance issues. This position provides direct technical expertise to agency DBAs and specialists across the enterprise.

QUALIFICATIONS

3+ years required for each of the below:

Teradata database

Upgrades, provisioning, software maintenance, scripting – BASH, Perl, Python, Glink

Teradata ecosystem health monitoring

Teradata node management

Teradata Viewpoint administration

Teradata Tools and Utilities (TTU)

PSIM (Platform Service Intelligent Monitoring) administration

Teradata vendor upgrades

Teradata workload management

Teradata backup & recovery

Performance tuning and resource optimization

Extract Transform Load (ETL)

Firewall knowledge

Unix/Linux knowledge

Cloud computing fundamentals, resource allocation, networking, preferably MS Azure

Statistics

Audits & security plans

Federal requirements – NIST 800-53, IRS Pub 1075, SSA, Medicaid, etc.

This is a contract opportunity with a great organization. As a contractor for Smith Johnson, you are eligible for medical, dental, life, disability. Smith Johnson pays for 70% of your medical and dental and 100% of life and disability. The contract is also eligible for PTO/holiday accrued monthly. You are also eligible for a 3% retirement matching plan. Smith Johnson believes in taking care of our contractors.