Petabyte-Scale Bare-Metal Systems Architect

Cercli Tech Limited

Abu Dhabi

On-site

AED 350,000 - 650,000

Full time

6 days ago
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Job summary

Analog builds industrial intelligence infrastructure and seeks a Distributed Systems Architect for bare-metal, high-scale deployments in Abu Dhabi, UAE. You will own architectural blueprints across Kafka/Redpanda, PostgreSQL (Patroni), and software-defined storage, ensuring air-gapped environments meet resilience requirements.

You will design multi-node clusters, tune Linux kernels and NUMA bindings, and deliver implementation-ready blueprints and runbooks for DevOps automation, guiding on-site

Qualifications

  • 10+ years architecting distributed infrastructure in production.
  • Expert-level Kafka or Redpanda clustering and operational lifecycle.
  • Deep Linux systems engineering and NUMA awareness.
  • Experience deploying HA databases without cloud load balancers (Patroni, Pacemaker).
  • Experience with software-defined storage (Ceph, MinIO) on physical hardware.
  • Ability to produce implementation-ready blueprints and runbooks for DevOps automation.

Responsibilities

  • Map on-premises open-source infrastructure to equivalents: Event Hub to Kafka/Redpanda, IoT Hub to EMQX, ADX to ClickHouse/Druid, Blob Storage to Ceph/MinIO.
  • Design multi-node clusters and topology for bare-metal deployments.
  • Tune kernel networking, NUMA bindings, and I/O schedulers for petabyte-scale workloads.
  • Create reproducible benchmark harnesses and runbooks for deployment.
  • Review client hardware specs and ensure air-gap security compliance before deployment.

Skills

Distributed systems design
DevOps collaboration
Technical leadership
Performance tuning

Tools

Kafka
Redpanda
PostgreSQL (Patroni)
Ceph
MinIO
Terraform
Ansible
RocksDB
Flink

Job description

Analog builds industrial intelligence infrastructure and seeks a Distributed Systems Architect for bare-metal, high-scale deployments in Abu Dhabi, UAE. You will own architectural blueprints across Kafka/Redpanda, PostgreSQL (Patroni), and software-defined storage, ensuring air-gapped environments meet resilience requirements.

You will design multi-node clusters, tune Linux kernels and NUMA bindings, and deliver implementation-ready blueprints and runbooks for DevOps automation, guiding on-site

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