Job Description
At AT DAWN Technologies, we are a fast‑growing technology services company building high-impact teams across Data Engineering, AI, and Backend Development. Our clients include some of the most innovative product companies in the world. We operate delivery centers in India and Vietnam, enabling rapid, high-quality execution with a product mindset.
We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Solution Architect with expertise in High Performance Computing (HPC) and Container platforms in Linux‑based 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 enterprise‑grade 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, HPC/AI Cluster management technologies such as HPCM or BCM and the ability to work in a dynamic customer‑focused 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.
- 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 HPE Ezmeral Runtime. Good to have.
- 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
- Bachelor’s/master’s 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.
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