Senior Solutions Architect Networking

Clarus Advisers; Bengaluru Urban; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Clarus Advisers seeks an experienced cloud/HPC architect in Bengaluru to design and implement scalable AI/HPC infrastructure. You will collaborate with customers, partners, and internal teams to deliver robust networking and automation solutions.

The role requires deep Linux/Windows networking, cloud proficiency, and hands-on deployment experience with orchestration tools and storage technologies. Exciting projects and cross-team collaboration await.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in HPC/AI networking and data center design.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/Google) and job schedulers.
• Proficient in Python and Bash; familiar with Jenkins/Ansible/Puppet/Chef.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement large-scale cloud infrastructure for AI/HPC environments.
• Develop automation to deploy and manage resources; enable self-service usage.
• Deploy monitoring across servers, networks, and storage; troubleshoot end-to-end.
• Document standard methodologies; support R&D and POCs/POVs.

Skills

Networking fundamentals

HPC/AI clusters

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Job scheduling & orchestration

Python & Bash scripting

Automation & configuration management

English communication

Education

BS/MS/PhD or equivalent in a relevant field

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Slurm

Kubernetes

Singularity

Jenkins

Ansible

Puppet/Chef

VMware

Hyper-V

KVM

Citrix

Lustre

GPFS

ZFS

XFS

Wireshark

Linux (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu)

Windows networking

Job description

Company Overview

Clarus Advisers is a professional advisory and consulting firm that helps organizations with strategic business and technology solutions. It focuses on delivering specialized expertise to support clients in achieving their business and operational goals.

Position Overview

The position is responsible for designing and implementing large-scale cloud infrastructure, networking, and automation solutions for AI/HPC environments. The role involves working closely with customers, partners, and internal teams to deliver scalable infrastructure solutions while providing technical expertise in system design, networking, troubleshooting, and automation.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain continuous integration and delivery pipelines .
• Develop tooling to automate deployment and management of large-scale infrastructure environments, to automate operational monitoring and alerting, and to enable self-service consumption of resources.
• Deploy monitoring solutions for the servers, network and storage.
• Perform troubleshooting bottom up from bare metal, operating system, software stack and application level.
• Being a technical resource, develop, re-define and document standard methodologies to share with internal teams Support Research & Development activities and engage in POCs/POVs for future improvements .

Skills & Experience

• BS/MS/PhD or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Data Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, other Engineering fields with at least 8 years work or research experience in networking fundamentals, TCP/IP stack, and data center architecture.
• 5+ Years of Design, implement and maintain large scale HPC/AI clusters with monitoring, logging and alerting Manage Linux job/workload schedulers and orchestration tools.
• Knowledge of HPC and AI solution technologies from CPU's and GPU's to high speed interconnects and supporting software.
• Direct design, implementation and management experience with cloud computing platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Experience with job scheduling workloads and orchestration technologies such as Slurm, Kubernetes and Singularity.
• Excellent knowledge of Windows and Linux (Redhat/CentOS and Ubuntu) networking (sockets, firewalld, iptables, wireshark, etc.) and internals, ACLs and OS level security protection and common protocols e.g. TCP, DHCP, DNS, etc.
• Experience with multiple storage solutions such as Lustre, GPFS, zfs and xfs. Familiarity with newer and emerging storage technologies.
• Python programming and bash scripting experience.
• Comfortable with automation and configuration management tools including Jenkins, Ansible, Puppet/Chef, etc.
• Deep knowledge of Networking Protocols like InfiniBand, Ethernet Deep understanding and experience with virtual systems (for example VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, or Citrix).
• Strong written, verbal, and listening skills in English are critical.