Senior Solutions Architect – AI Infrastructure Networking

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🇮🇳 India – Remote

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💻 Solutions Engineer

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Mirantis

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501 - 1000 employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Mirantis is a company that specializes in container management and cloud infrastructure solutions. It offers a range of products, including Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (MKE), Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes (MOSK), and Mirantis Container Cloud (MCC), which provide enterprise-level Kubernetes and container management platforms. Mirantis also develops tools for secure software supply chains, such as the Mirantis Container Runtime (MCR) and Mirantis Secure Registry (MSR). As an advocate for open source technologies, Mirantis supports various projects and provides resources like Lens Desktop, a popular Kubernetes IDE, and technical support for enterprises adopting cloud-native technologies. Their solutions cater to sectors such as public services, financial services, and broader SaaS and technology services industries.

📋 Description

• Own the network solutioning of k0rdent AI, Mirantis's platform for building and operating GPU clouds and AI factories • Design large GPU-cluster interconnects, tenant isolation, and workload connectivity from containers, virtual machines and bare-metal nodes • Design and publish network reference architectures and solution designs from single-rack to multi-thousand-GPU clusters • Define InfiniBand and RoCEv2 Ethernet compute fabrics, including rail-optimised and fat-tree/Clos designs, oversubscription and failure domains • Define front-end, storage and management networks and connectivity to customer data centers, public clouds and hybrid environments • Specify multi-tenant isolation using InfiniBand PKeys, VRFs, EVPN-VXLAN and Kubernetes network policy • Document scale limits and trade-offs involving cost, performance, operability and vendor lock-in • Define Linux host networking for NICs, DPUs and SuperNICs, including PCI passthrough, SR-IOV, IOMMU, NUMA and GPU-NIC affinity • Design Kubernetes networking for AI workloads and KubeVirt virtual machines • Research emerging AI-networking technologies and standards, prototype alternatives and benchmark them against current practice • Publish internal research notes, design proposals, papers, blog posts and talks • Build and run customer and partner proofs of concept on Mirantis lab hardware and customer sites • Write automation and tooling using Python, Go, Bash, Ansible, Helm, Kubernetes manifests and Terraform • Validate and benchmark fabrics and host configurations using NCCL tests, perftest and ib_write_bw • Act as the network subject matter expert in customer discovery, design reviews and architecture workshops • Collaborate with hardware/networking partners, Solutions Architects, Partner Management, Engineering, Product and customers across time zones • Present at industry events, webinars and partner summits; run hands-on technical workshops • Produce reference architectures, solution briefs, blog posts and internal enablement materials • Help shape the k0rdent AI product roadmap

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications or a related field, or equivalent practical experience • 8+ years in network engineering or network architecture • At least 3 years in data center, HPC or cloud infrastructure networking • Customer-facing experience as a solutions architect, pre-sales engineer, consultant or technical lead • Data center network design experience including spine-leaf and Clos topologies, rail-optimised GPU fabrics, oversubscription, ECMP, and scaling to thousands of nodes • InfiniBand expertise including subnet management, partitioning, adaptive routing, and NCCL/RDMA traffic behavior • RoCEv2 expertise including PFC, ECN, DCQCN, QoS, MTU and buffer tuning • Knowledge of BGP, EVPN-VXLAN and VRFs for multi-tenancy • Hybrid and multi-cloud connectivity experience, including interconnects, VPN, cloud networking constructs, IP address and DNS planning • Linux networking knowledge including NIC drivers, PCI passthrough, SR-IOV, IOMMU, NUMA affinity, iproute2, ethtool and devlink • Kubernetes networking knowledge including CNI plugins, Multus, secondary networks, SR-IOV and RDMA device plugins, network policy and service exposure • KubeVirt and VM networking, passthrough and SR-IOV configuration experience • Programming or scripting in at least one language; Python or Go preferred • Comfortable using Git, CI and infrastructure-as-code • Excellent written and spoken English • Comfortable presenting to large audiences and running hands-on workshops • Able to adapt technical messaging to network engineers and customer executives • Experience working in an international, distributed company across time zones and work cultures • Willingness to work some meetings outside standard local hours • Nice-to-have experience with NVIDIA networking, GPU cloud/neocloud/HPC operators, bare-metal provisioning, network automation, SDN controllers, switch operating systems, global load balancing, software-defined storage networking, Mirantis products, open-source contributions, industry standards, published research, patents, white papers or additional languages

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work arrangement • Travel of up to 25% for customer engagements, partner meetings, lab work and industry events • Collaboration with a world-class, distributed team • Opportunities to work directly with leading GPU cloud operators, NeoClouds, sovereign clouds, and AI-first enterprises • Opportunity to shape the product narrative and influence go-to-market success