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Senior Staff Software Engineer - Virtualization SME
Senior Staff Software Engineer - Virtualization SME-March 2024
Sacramento
Mar 28, 2026
About Senior Staff Software Engineer - Virtualization SME

  What You’ll Do:

  In this role you will have the opportunity to work on the Infrastructure Engineering team to develop our world-class on-premises offering of Teradata Vantage Reference Architectures Powered by Dell Technologies. This is our high-performance, highly scalable, highly available architecture that leverages VantageCore VMware to support production analytics workloads. Our Infrastructure Team is focused on delivering the latest analytical solution technology to our customers at scale with a primary focus on virtualization.

  In this role you will be:

  Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) for all virtualization environments

  Provide input on product direction, design, and development

  Evaluate, improve, and maintain the information security throughout the virtualized infrastructure

  Take leading position in development of PoC, new feature implementation

  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 Sr Staff Virtualization SME 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., VMware), while driving to provide the highest performance on these newest offerings.

  What Makes You a Qualified Candidate:

  Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related discipline with 8+ years of work experience

  Masters degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related discipline with 6+ years of work experience

  PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related discipline with 3+ years of work experience requirement

  Expert knowledge of virtualization technology including hypervisors and network virtualization

  Expert knowledge of vSphere, vSan, vMotion, vCenter and/or vRa

  Expert knowledge of best practice VMware deployment techniques

  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

  Expert 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

  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. Always knows the details

  Why We Think You’ll Love Teradata

  We prioritize a people-first culture because we know our people are at the very heart of our success. We embrace a flexible work model because we trust our people to make decisions about how, when, and where they work. We focus on well-being because we care about our people and their ability to thrive both personally and professionally. We are an anti-racist company because our dedication to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is more than a statement. It is a deep commitment to doing the work to foster an equitable environment that celebrates people for all of who they are.

  Our Company

  At Teradata, we believe that people thrive when empowered with better information. That’s why we built the most complete cloud analytics and data platform for AI. By delivering harmonized data, trusted AI, and faster innovation, we uplift and empower our customers—and our customers’ customers—to make better, more confident decisions. The world’s top companies across every major industry trust Teradata to improve business performance, enrich customer experiences, and fully integrate data across the enterprise.

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