Senior GPU Solutions Architect – Enterprise HPC UK

Referment; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Referment is partnering with a cloud infrastructure provider to shape large-scale GPU platforms for UK enterprise customers. The role focuses on architecting and delivering scalable GPU clusters, with emphasis on performance, efficiency and cost trade-offs.

You will lead architecture workshops, design high-level and low-level documents, and translate workloads into bare-metal, Slurm or Kubernetes-based solutions across NVIDIA GPU platforms, NVLink/NVSwitch, InfiniBand fabrics and cooling

Qualifications

• 5+ years in solution architecture, systems engineering or technical pre-sales focused on HPC, AI infrastructure or high-performance cloud platforms.
• Deep knowledge of NVIDIA HGX or DGX systems, GPU interconnects and modern rack-scale GPU architectures.
• Strong experience designing InfiniBand and/or RoCE networks, including congestion management and GPU-direct technologies.
• Practical understanding of GPU workload orchestration through Kubernetes and associated NVIDIA operators, or bare-metal environments using Slurm, Ansible and Terraform.
• A track record of producing robust HLDs, LLDs, network diagrams and itemised infrastructure designs.

Responsibilities

• Design enterprise GPU clusters and produce clear high-level and low-level designs, rack and network diagrams, and detailed bills of materials.
• Shape scale-up and scale-out architectures across NVIDIA GPU platforms, NVLink and NVSwitch, high-speed InfiniBand and RoCE fabrics, storage, power and cooling.
• Translate customer workload, performance and commercial requirements into practical bare-metal, Slurm or Kubernetes-based solutions.
• Lead technical discovery sessions, architecture workshops and executive presentations, and contribute to complex proposals and RFP responses.
• Plan and oversee proofs of concept, using appropriate benchmarking to validate throughput, latency and distributed training performance.
• Work closely with enterprise customers, hardware vendors and internal engineering teams, feeding technical insight back into the platform roadmap.

Skills

HPC architecture

GPGPU platforms

Kubernetes orchestration

InfiniBand networks

Pre-sales experience

Tools

Kubernetes

Slurm

Ansible

Terraform

NVIDIA HGX/DGX

Job description

Referment is partnering with a cloud infrastructure provider to shape large-scale GPU platforms for UK enterprise customers. The role focuses on architecting and delivering scalable GPU clusters, with emphasis on performance, efficiency and cost trade-offs.

You will lead architecture workshops, design high-level and low-level documents, and translate workloads into bare-metal, Slurm or Kubernetes-based solutions across NVIDIA GPU platforms, NVLink/NVSwitch, InfiniBand fabrics and cooling