Bare-Metal, High-Scale Distributed Systems Architect

Cercli Tech Limited; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 250,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Analog builds industrial intelligence infrastructure for the physical world. We seek a Distributed Systems Architect to own architectural blueprints for on-premises infrastructure, designing clustering, replication, and failover topologies across messaging, streaming, and database layers.

This is a hands-on, implementation-grade role with air-gapped client environments, where output quality determines system survivability under hardware failure at petabyte scale.

Qualifications

• 10+ years architecting and operating distributed infrastructure at TB to PB scale in production environments.
• Expert-level Kafka or Redpanda clustering: partitioning strategy, ISR tuning, consumer group management, compaction policies, and operational lifecycle at scale
• Deep Linux systems engineering: kernel networking subsystems (TCP buffer tuning, interrupt coalescing), storage fabrics, and NUMA-aware process binding
• Proven track record deploying HA database clusters without cloud load balancers: Patroni, Pacemaker, or equivalent in production
• Experience deploying software-defined storage (Ceph, MinIO) on physical hardware in production, including CRUSH maps, erasure coding, and performance tuning
• Ability to produce implementation-ready blueprints and runbooks; your output must be directly actionable by a DevOps automation team without architectural interpretation

Responsibilities

• Open-Source Infrastructure Mapping: map Azure PaaS components to open-source equivalents and document migration risks.
• Cluster and Topology Design: design multi-node clustering, rack-aware replication, and quorum topologies for bare-metal Kafka/Redpanda and PostgreSQL clusters.
• Linux and Hardware Optimization: tune kernel parameters, NUMA bindings, network settings to avoid bottlenecks.
• Blueprints and DevOps Enablement: deliver ready-to-run blueprints and runbooks for Terraform and Ansible; maintain reference architectures.

Skills

Kafka/Redpanda clustering

Linux systems engineering

HA database clusters

DevOps blueprints

TB to PB scale experience

Tools

Ceph/MinIO

Patroni

Terraform/Ansible

Job description

Analog builds industrial intelligence infrastructure for the physical world. We seek a Distributed Systems Architect to own architectural blueprints for on-premises infrastructure, designing clustering, replication, and failover topologies across messaging, streaming, and database layers.

This is a hands-on, implementation-grade role with air-gapped client environments, where output quality determines system survivability under hardware failure at petabyte scale.