AI Storage Domain Architect for GPU & HPC Infra

Northbridge It Recruitment; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Northbridge It Recruitment in Melbourne invites a Domain Architect - AI Storage to design, deploy and optimise storage for large-scale AI factories and GPU clusters.

You will lead HPC storage, NVMe-oF, GDS, and parallel file systems, collaborating with compute and network teams to deliver scalable AI infrastructures.

This hands-on role requires strong Linux, automation (Python/Ansible/Terraform) and experience with NVIDIA SuperPOD, DGX and Cisco AI Factory deployments.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience delivering high-performance storage solutions in HPC, AI, or large-scale enterprise environments.
• Hands-on knowledge of parallel file systems such as WEKA, Lustre, BeeGFS or GPFS.
• Experience architecting storage for GPU clusters, AI training and/or inference workloads.
• Strong understanding of storage performance, throughput, IOPS, metadata performance and Linux I/O optimisation.
• Knowledge of NVMe-oF, RDMA-based storage and high-speed data access architectures.
• Experience with object storage and S3-compatible protocols for datasets, model checkpoints and archival workloads.
• Strong Linux systems knowledge, including file systems, block devices, client configuration and performance troubleshooting.
• Automation experience using Python, Ansible or Terraform.
• Ability to design scalable storage architectures and translate technical requirements into reliable, production-ready deployments.
• Experience deploying storage for NVIDIA SuperPOD, BasePOD, DGX/HGX GPU clusters or Cisco AI Factory environments.
• Hands-on experience with NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage (GDS).
• Integration with Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift and CSI storage drivers.
• Understanding of InfiniBand and RoCEv2 networking from a storage performance perspective.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy and optimise HPC and AI storage infrastructure for GPU clusters.
• Lead high-performance parallel file systems and storage platforms (WEKA, Lustre, BeeGFS, GPFS, Pure).
• Architect high-throughput storage fabrics to support AI training and inference at scale.
• Implement NVMe-over-Fabrics, GDS, NFS over RDMA, and S3-compatible storage.
• Integrate storage with Kubernetes, OpenShift, and CSI drivers.
• Develop automation for deployment using Python, Ansible or Terraform.
• Benchmark and troubleshoot storage performance using IOR, FIO, mdtest.
• Design data lifecycle and tiering strategies across NVMe, flash and object storage.
• Collaborate with compute and network architects for end-to-end performance.
• Lead technical implementation, testing and validation of storage solutions.

Skills

High-performance storage

WEKA Lustre BeeGFS GPFS

NVMe-oF

GDS

NFS over RDMA

S3-compatible storage

Kubernetes

OpenShift

CSI drivers

Python

Ansible

Terraform

GPU clusters

AI storage

Tools

WEKA

Lustre

BeeGFS

GPFS

NVMe-oF tooling

Job description

Northbridge It Recruitment in Melbourne invites a Domain Architect - AI Storage to design, deploy and optimise storage for large-scale AI factories and GPU clusters.

You will lead HPC storage, NVMe-oF, GDS, and parallel file systems, collaborating with compute and network teams to deliver scalable AI infrastructures.

This hands-on role requires strong Linux, automation (Python/Ansible/Terraform) and experience with NVIDIA SuperPOD, DGX and Cisco AI Factory deployments.