Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Engineer

Wipzo Systech; Pune District; On-site; INR 300,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Wipzo Systech in Pune, India, seeks an experienced Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Engineer with 6–8 years of experience to own build management, hardware certification, and infrastructure engineering for an advanced HCI platform.

The role blends embedded systems, cloud-native integrations, and rigorous validation across compute, storage, and networks. You will drive secure, enterprise-grade builds and collaborate with hardware vendors for certification.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, information technology, or related field.
• 6+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, embedded systems, or hardware certification.

Responsibilities

• Build & Release Management: maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines; troubleshoot failures; embed security checks.
• HCI Hardware Certification & Validation: test across server/storage/network hardware; certify OEM programs.
• Infrastructure & Platform Engineering: enhance Diamanti HCI stack; optimize I/O paths; IaC deployment.
• Collaboration & Support: partner with PM, QA, and customers; assist in PoC deployments and escalations.
• Documentation & Quality Code: write docs; participate in design reviews; ensure test coverage.

Skills

C/C++/Go

Shell scripting

Kernel internals

Kubernetes

CI/CD automation

Hardware integration

Security scanning

Performance tuning

Networking

Education

Bachelor's or master's in CS/IT

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Pulumi

Ansible

Job description

Job Title

Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Engineer Build, Certification & Infrastructure

Location : Pune, India

Job Type : Full-Time

Experience Level : 6–8 years

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled engineer who can take end-to-end ownership across build management, hardware certification, and infrastructure engineering for our next-generation Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) platform.

This role is a blend of embedded systems development, cloud-native integrations, build/release ownership, and hardware-software validation. The ideal candidate is hands-on across compute, storage, networking, and hardware acceleration, while also ensuring that builds are reliable, certified, and enterprise ready.

Key Responsibilities

1. Build & Release Management

• Maintain, monitor, and improve CI/CD pipelines for HCI software components.
• Troubleshoot and resolve build failures, ensuring high availability and reliability.
• Perform vulnerability scans and integrate security checks into the build process.
• Collaborate with developers to fix build issues and maintain compliance with secure coding practices.

2. HCI Hardware Certification & Validation

• Validate Diamanti’s HCI platform across server, storage, and network hardware vendors.
• Perform interoperability, firmware compatibility, and compliance testing.
• Certify performance and reliability across OEM vendor programs (Dell, HPE, Cisco, etc.).
• Run benchmarking, regression, chaos, and resiliency tests for enterprise-grade workloads.

3. Infrastructure & Platform Engineering

• Enhance and maintain the Diamanti HCI stack (compute, storage, networking).
• Develop and optimize high-performance I/O paths, storage acceleration, and networking offloads.
• Integrate custom hardware with Kubernetes (via CRDs, CSI/CNI drivers, and Operators).
• Work on scalability and performance tuning under production-like workloads.
• Leverage Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi) for consistent deployment.

4. Collaboration & Support

• Partner with Product Management to define requirements and customer use cases.
• Support QA and Support teams in troubleshooting and triaging escalations.
• Participate in PoC deployments and customer-facing solution validation.
• Collaborate with hardware vendors and certification bodies to align on compliance requirements.

5. Documentation & Quality Code

• Write clear documentation for builds, certification processes, and infrastructure deployment.
• Contribute to technical design discussions, reviews, and architecture improvements.
• Ensure high-quality code with unit, integration, and automation test coverage.

Requirements

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field.
• 6+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, embedded systems, or hardware certification.

Technical Expertise

• Programming: C, C++, Go, Shell scripting.
• Linux Systems: Kernel internals, performance tuning, driver development.
• Kubernetes: CSI/CNI driver development, Operators, Helm, container runtimes.
• Storage: NVMe, NVMe-oF, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, distributed storage systems.
• Networking: VLANs, SDN, SR-IOV, DPDK, NIC offloads.
• Build/DevOps: Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Ansible, Terraform, Pulumi.
• Hardware Integration: PCIe devices, BIOS/UEFI, firmware upgrades, BMC/iLO/iDRAC.
• Tools: GDB, logic analyzers, JTAG, security scanning (Snyk, Trivy, SonarQube).

Additonal Desired Skills

• Familiarity with service mesh (Istio, Linkerd) and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• Knowledge of compliance frameworks (FIPS, FedRAMP, PCI-DSS) and secure Kubernetes operations (OPA/Gatekeeper).
• Experience with chaos testing and infrastructure validation automation frameworks.
• Hands-on with multi-cluster management platforms (Spektra, Rancher, Anthos, OpenShift).
• Strong communication and mentoring skills to guide cross-functional teams.

Preferred Skills

• Certifications: CKA, CKAD.
• Open-source contributions in Kubernetes, Linux kernel, or storage.
• Familiarity with hardware debugging tools and test frameworks.

What Makes This Role Exciting

• Opportunity to own end-to-end responsibility across builds, infrastructure, and hardware certification.
• Work at the intersection of embedded systems and cloud-native orchestration.
• Shape enterprise-grade HCI for mission-critical workloads.
• Collaborate with experts in systems programming, Kubernetes, and hardware-software integration.