About the Role :

At AT DAWN Technologies, we are a fast-growing technology services company building high-impact teams across Data Engineering, AI, and Backend Development. We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Solution Architect with expertise in High Performance Computing (HPC) and Container platforms in Linux-based environments.

Key Responsibilities :

Leadership and Strategy :

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

- Engage in and enhance the complete service lifecycle - from conceptualization and design to implementation and operation.

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

Solution 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.

Opportunity assessment :

- Respond to the technical sections of RFIs/RFPs and Lead proof-of-concept engagements to a successful conclusion.

- Utilize an effective consultative approach to advance opportunities.

Innovation 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.

Customer-centric 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 non-technical stakeholders.

Team Collaboration :

- Collaborate with cross-functional 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 procedures/troubleshooting, performance optimization, and networking concepts.

- In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with HPC technologies, workload schedulers - Slurm, Altair PBS pro, and cluster managers - HPCM, Bright cluster manager.

- In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with containerization technologies like Docker, Singularity, or Podman.

- In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with at least two of the container orchestration technologies like CNCF Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, SUSE Rancher RKE/K3S, Canonical charmed kubernetes or Ezmeral Runtime.

- Good knowledge and hands-on experience with OpenStack cloud solutions.

- Good knowledge and hands-on experience with virtualization technologies like KVM, OpenShift virtualization.

- Good knowledge and hands-on 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, TCP/IP, Routing and Load Balancing.

- Knowledge of network protocols like TCP/IP, S3, FTP, NFS, or SMB/CIFS.

- Familiarity with microservices architecture, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps tools.

- Excellent problem-solving abilities, analytical thinking, and communication skills to interact with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

- Ability to lead technical projects by gathering the requirements, preparing the architecture / design and executing it end to end. Must be able to bring clarity and drive complex projects involving multiple stakeholders.

- Solid business acumen and ability to converse with client on issues and challenges.

- Demonstrates a solid knowledge of the company's breadth of solutions.

- Demonstrates a high-level understanding of all related vendor product roadmaps.

Qualifications :

- Bachelors/masters degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.

- Proven experience as a Solutions Architect, HPC and Container platform Specialist, or similar role, with expertise in designing and implementing complex solutions.

- Red Hat Certified Specialist in Containers and Kubernetes (RHCSA, RHCE), CNCF certification - CKA, CKAD, CKS is preferred.

- Typically, 6 - 8 years of experience in delivering complex HPC and container platform projects.