Domain Architect - Ai Compute - 12M Contract - Perm

Northbridge Recruitment; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Northbridge Recruitment has an exciting opportunity for a Domain Architect - AI Compute in Melbourne to lead high-performance GPU and AI infrastructure projects for enterprise clients. You will own the Compute layer across complex AI deployments, optimise Linux environments, and drive automation with Python and Ansible.

Join a market-leading System Integrator delivering AI data centre upgrade programs, working with NVIDIA technologies and HPC ecosystems to deliver GPUs at scale.

Qualifications

• Strong HPC architecture & data centre compute experience.
• Hands-on NVIDIA GPU/AI infra and HPC environments.
• Advanced Linux systems engineering (Ubuntu/RHEL).

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver NVIDIA environments (SuperPOD/BasePOD etc.) for AI compute projects.
• Lead bare-metal GPU cluster provisioning using BCM and Zero Touch provisioning.
• Configure and optimise Slurm, NCCL, CUDA for HPC workloads.
• Implement GPU monitoring with DCGM and validate performance.
• Develop infrastructure automation with Python and Ansible.
• Integrate compute environments with InfiniBand/RoCEv2 and storage.
• Provide technical leadership to clients and support pre-sales activities.

Skills

HPC Architecture

Data Centre Compute

NVIDIA GPU/AI infra

Linux Systems

Python automation

Ansible automation

Tools

NVIDIA BCM

Slurm

CUDA

Kubernetes/OpenShift

InfiniBand

NDR/HDR

Job description

Opportunity to join a market leading System Integrator delivering Multi-Billion-Dollar AI Data Centre Upgrade Programs. Work with the New and Emerging technology such as NVIDIA in an Org organisation at the forefront of delivering AI Data Centre Upgrade Programs, Delivering GPUs at scale.

We have a (12-Month Contract - Permanent) Domain Architect - AI Compute roles available.

You will join a specialist team delivering high-performance GPU and AI infrastructure for enterprise clients.

This is a hands-on architecture and delivery role requiring strong NVIDIA GPU, HPC and Linux expertise.

You will own the Compute layer across complex AI infrastructure deployments, working across architecture, cluster provisioning, automation, performance optimisation and Day 2 operations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and deliver NVIDIA SuperPOD, BasePOD, NVL72, HGX, MGX and Cisco AI Factory environments.


• Lead bare-metal GPU cluster provisioning using NVIDIA Base Command Manager (BCM) and Zero Touch Provisioning.


• Configure and optimise Slurm, NVIDIA Run, Kueue and/or Volcano.


• Implement GPU monitoring using NVIDIA DCGM and validate performance using NCCL, HPL and HPCG.


• Optimise Linux environments for high-performance AI/HPC workloads, including kernel, driver and system tuning.


• Develop infrastructure automation using Python and Ansible.


• Integrate compute environments with InfiniBand/RoCEv2, storage, identity and enterprise platforms.


• Provide technical leadership to clients and support solution design, scoping and pre-sales activities.

Essential Experience:

• Strong HPC Architecture & Engineering Experience


• Strong Experience in Data Centre - Compute


• Strong hands-on experience with NVIDIA GPU/AI infrastructure and HPC environments.


• Deep knowledge of NVIDIA Hopper, Grace Hopper, Blackwell and Grace Blackwell platforms.


• Experience with NVL72, NVSwitch, CUDA, cuDNN and NCCL.


• Advanced Linux systems engineering skills across Ubuntu and/or RHEL.


• Strong Python and Ansible automation experience.


• Understanding of GPU/PCIe/NUMA topology and high-performance compute architectures.

Desirable Experience:

• NVIDIA BCM/Mission Control, Slurm, Run, Kubernetes/OpenShift, InfiniBand NDR/HDR, RoCEv2, Rafay, KubeFlow, OpenShift AI, liquid cooling and AWS/Azure/GCP/OCI.


• Experience within a System Integrator, MSP, hyperscaler or specialist AI infrastructure environment is highly regarded.