Enterprise Solutions Architect - HPC and Container Platforms

Associate Principal - Architecture

Enterprise Solutions Architect HPC and container Platform

Job Title Solutions Architect HPC and container Platform

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Solution Architect with expertise in High Performance Computing HPC and Container platforms in Linuxbased environments to join our dynamic team The ideal candidate will be responsible for architecting solutions including but not limited to installation configuration integration and implementation of HPC technologies and enterprisegrade container orchestration platform

We are looking for a person with very strong technical skills and a proven track record of designing and working with container platforms such as Red Hat OpenShift SUSE Rancher CNCF Kubernetes HPC Schedulers such as Slurm or PBS Pro HPCAI Cluster management technologies such as HPCM or BCM and the ability to work in a dynamic customerfocused team that requires excellent interpersonal skills

Key Responsibilities

Candidate must have strong proficiency as a Solution Architect in at least three areas and proficiency in other areas

1Leadership and Strategy

Develop HPC and container platform roadmaps and strategies for growth based on business needs

Engage in and enhance the complete service lifecyclefrom conceptualization and design to implementation and operation

Identify the growth path and scalability options of a solution and include these in design activities

2Solution Planning and Design

Gather requirements assess technical feasibility and design integrated HPC and container solutions that align with business objectives

Architect and optimize the technical solutions to meet the requirements of the customer

Identify the potential challenges and constraints that impact the solution and project plan

3Opportunity assessment

Respond to the technical sections of RFIsRFPs and Lead proofofconcept engagements to a successful conclusion

Utilize an effective consultative approach to advance opportunities

4Innovation and Research

Stay abreast of emerging technologies trends and industry developments related to HPC Kubernetes containers cloud computing and Security

Develop best practices Accelerators and Show Tell for HPC and container platform solutions and integrations

5Customercentric mindset

Strong focus on understanding customer business requirements and solving complex cloud technology issues

Be the trusted advisor delight customers and deliver exceptional customer experiences to drive customer success

Communicate complex technical concepts and findings to nontechnical stakeholders

6Team Collaboration

Collaborate with crossfunctional teams including system administrators developers data scientist and project managers to ensure successful project delivery

Understands the roles and effectively engages other teams and resources within the company

Mentor and train new team members and lead the way in participation in tech talks forums innovation

Required Skills

Knowledge and experience with Linux System Administration package management scheduling boot procedurestroubleshooting performance optimization and networking concepts

Indepth knowledge and handson experience with HPC technologies workload schedulers Slurm Altair PBS pro and cluster managers HPCM Bright cluster manager

Indepth knowledge and handson experience with containerization technologies like Docker Singularity or Podman

Indepth knowledge and handson experience with at least two of the container orchestration technologies like CNCF Kubernetes Red Hat OpenShift SUSE Rancher RKEK3S Canonical charmed kubernetes or HPE Ezmeral Runtime Good to have

Good knowledge and handson experience with OpenStack cloud solutions

Good knowledge and handson experience with virtualization technologies like KVM OpenShift virtualization

Good knowledge and handson experience with at least two various Linux distributions like RHEL SLES Ubuntu Debian

Good Knowledge of GPU technologies NVIDIA GPU operator NVIDIA vGPU technology

Good knowledge of HPC networking stack high speed networking InfiniBand Mellanox

Good experience in performance optimization and health assessment of HPC components

such as operating systems storage servers parallel file systems schedulers and container orchestration platforms

Must be good in any of the programming or scripting languages like python bash

Good understanding of DNS TCPIP Routing and Load Balancing

Knowledge of network protocols like TCPIP S3 FTP NFS or SMBCIFS

Familiarity with microservices architecture CICD pipelines and DevOps tools

Excellent problemsolving abilities analytical thinking and communication skills to interact with technical and nontechnical stakeholders

Ability to lead technical projects by gathering the requirements preparing the architecture design and executing it e