Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Solutions Architect with deep expertise in AI/ML infrastructure, High Performance Computing (HPC), and container platforms to join our dynamic team focused on delivering Cloud AI and Enterprise AI Factory solutions. This role is instrumental in architecting, deploying, and optimizing private cloud environments that support enterprise?grade AI workloads at scale, leveraging validated reference architectures and industry?standard frameworks.

The ideal candidate will bring strong technical expertise in AI infrastructure, container orchestration platforms, and hybrid cloud environments, and will play a key role in delivering scalable, secure, and high?performance AI platform solutions.

Key Responsibilities

1. Leadership and Strategy

Provide delivery assurance and serve as the lead design authority for enterprise?grade container platforms such as Red Hat OpenShift and SUSE Rancher, aligned with customer AI/ML strategies and business objectives.
Align solution architecture with modern Enterprise AI Factory design principles including modular scalability, GPU optimization, and hybrid cloud orchestration.
Oversee planning, risk management, and stakeholder alignment throughout the project lifecycle.

2. Solution Planning and Design

Architect and optimize end?to?end solutions across container orchestration and HPC workload management, leveraging platforms such as Red Hat OpenShift, SUSE Rancher, and workload schedulers like Slurm and Altair PBS Pro.
Ensure seamless integration of container and AI platforms with the broader software ecosystem, including open?source DevOps and AI/ML tools and frameworks.

3. Opportunity Assessment

Lead technical responses to RFPs, RFIs, and customer?driven inquiries.
Conduct Proof?of?Concept (PoC) engagements to validate performance, feasibility, and integration.
Assess customer environments and recommend optimal configurations based on validated industry reference architectures and open?source integrations.

4. Innovation and Research

Stay current with emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices across HPC, Kubernetes, container platforms, hybrid cloud, and security domains.

5. Customer?Centric Mindset

Serve as a trusted advisor to enterprise customers, aligning AI solutions with business objectives.
Translate complex technical concepts into clear value propositions for technical and non?technical stakeholders.

6. Team Collaboration

Collaborate with cross?functional teams, including experts in infrastructure components such as servers, storage, networking, and data science, to ensure cohesive delivery.
Mentor technical consultants and contribute to internal knowledge?sharing sessions, tech talks, and innovation initiatives.

Required Skills

1. HPC & AI Infrastructure

Extensive knowledge of HPC technologies and workload schedulers such as Slurm and Altair PBS Pro.
Experience with HPC cluster management tools (generic, without vendor references).
Strong understanding of high?speed networking technologies such as InfiniBand and Ethernet.
Experience with performance tuning of HPC components.

2. Containerization & Orchestration

Hands?on experience with container technologies: Docker, Podman, Singularity.
Proficient in at least two container orchestration platforms:
CNCF Kubernetes
Red Hat OpenShift
SUSE Rancher
RKE / K3S
Canonical Charmed Kubernetes
Strong understanding of GPU?based workload environments, including GPU health and performance monitoring frameworks (genericized).

3. Operating Systems & Virtualization

Strong Linux system administration skills: package management, boot processes, troubleshooting, performance tuning, networking.
Hands?on experience with at least two Linux distributions: RHEL, SLES, Ubuntu.
Experience with virtualization technologies such as KVM and enterprise virtualization for hybrid cloud deployments.

4. Cloud, DevOps & MLOps

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Solid understanding of hybrid cloud deployments, cloud architecture patterns, and cloud automation frameworks.
Experience with CI/CD, infrastructure?as?code, and automation tooling.

Skills

Mandatory Skills:

Azure Cloud Architecture
Cloud Solution Architecture
Kubernetes

Good to Have Skills:

Azure DevOps
Network Migration