Technology Platform Engineer

Accenture in India; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture in India is seeking a Technology Platform Engineer to design and deploy HPC/AI infrastructure across on‑premises, cloud and hybrid environments. The role emphasizes GPU/XPU clusters, Slurm/PBS Pro, and modern container orchestration such as Kubernetes and Docker.

Responsibilities include optimizing performance, energy and costs, integrating AI platforms with data pipelines, and creating comprehensive architecture runbooks for scalable operations.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in HPC/AI infrastructure
• Experience designing and deploying HPC and AI systems across on‑premises, cloud and hybrid environments
• Strong knowledge of GPUs/XPUs, InfiniBand/NVMe storage and modern orchestration tools

Responsibilities

• Design and implement HPC and AI infrastructure aligned to performance and scalability needs
• Deploy and manage GPU clusters using Slurm, Kubernetes, and container platforms
• Optimize cluster performance, energy and cost efficiency across environments
• Integrate AI platforms with data pipelines and security frameworks
• Develop architecture diagrams, baselines and runbooks for operations

Skills

Linux Architecture

Advanced CUDA/GPU

HPC cluster design

Kubeflow

Education

15 years full time education

Tools

SLURM

PBS Pro

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Job description

Project Role : Technology Platform Engineer

Project Role Description : Creates production and non-production cloud environments using the proper software tools such as a platform for a project or product. Deploys the automation pipeline and automates environment creation and configuration.

Must have skills : Linux Architecture

Good to have skills : Machine Learning (ML), Cloud Technology Architecture, Docker Kubernetes Administration, Edge Computing, Microsoft Agentic AI Architect

Minimum 5 Year(s) Of Experience Is Required

Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement HPC and AI infrastructure solutions, aligning system architecture and deployment roadmaps to industry-specific performance and scalability needs
• Deploy, configure, and manage XPU-based clusters (CPU/GPU/accelerators) using schedulers, VM/K8s orchestration platforms, Slurm, and containerized platforms in scalable designs to provide Metal as a Service (MaaS), GPUaaS, AIaaS, and other offerings
• Optimize cluster performance, scalability, energy, and cost efficiency across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments
• Integrate AI and HPC platforms with existing IT systems, data pipelines, and security frameworks
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and tune infrastructure to ensure high availability, low-latency networking, and workload resiliency
• Develop and maintain documentation including architecture diagrams, configuration baselines, and operational runbooks
• Provide Provide technical guidance and support to users, enabling efficient execution of HPC/AI workloads, large-scale models, and simulations

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Experience in enterprise-wide HPC strategy and architecting next-gen supercomputing environments across the full stack.
• Primary Skills: Linux Administrator/Architect, Advanced CUDA/GPU on H100/A100, HPC cluster design (SLURM/PBS Pro)
• Secondary Skills: Parallel programming: MPI, OpenMP, CUDA, SYCL, NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD & BCM, InfiniBand NDR 400Gb/s & RoCEv2 design, MLOps & HPC integration (Kubeflow), Containerization: Singularity, Kubernetes, DevOps: Ansible, Terraform for HPC, UFM management, RunAI, Azure ML integration: distributed training, MLflow, Terraform / Bicep IaC for Azure HPC, FinOps: Reserved Instances, Spot VM strategies, Hybrid cloud HPC: on-prem to Azure/AWS burst
• Proven hands-on experience designing, deploying, and managing HPC and AI infrastructure across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments in 2 or more segments: hyperscaler, neocloud, large Enterprise, Telco/Mobile, supporting key industries such as Financial Services, Life Sciences, Manufacturing, and Retail
• Deep knowledge of accelerated computing architectures (GPUs, XPUs, DPUs), high-performance fabrics (InfiniBand, Ethernet), SONiC, networking, and modern storage/data platforms (e.g. NVMe-oF, Lustre, GPFS, BeeGFS, VAST, DDN, Weka) to build robust solutions
• Proficiency with cluster management and orchestration (e.g. Slurm, Run:ai, Kubernetes, Docker), real-time performance monitoring, and observability frameworks
• Hands-on experience with cloud and virtualization platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware, Nutanix) and expertise in automation and optimization using scripting (Python, AI tools) with foundational Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform and Ansible.

Preferred Skills and Qualifications:

• Experience managing the deployment of 1,000+ GPU clusters for HPC and AI workloads with various infrastructure services enabled
• Experience with GPU computing libraries and accelerators (e.g., NVIDIA CUDA, Dynamo, AMD ROCm).
• Experience with AI and HPC Networking (e.g., RoCE, InfiniBand, muti-planar/multi-rail designs, platform buffer architectures)
• Knowledge of Machine Learning and AI frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, JAX), Jupyter notebooks / Google Colab environments
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform) for infrastructure automation
• Experience with AgenticAI and associated technologies to leverage and build agents for workflow automation and observability
• Industry certifications in NVIDIA infrastructure, public cloud providers, Data Science, etc. are a plus
• Strong problem-solving, troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills to deliver reliable, scalable, and high-performance infrastructure solutions in fast-paced, dynamic environments that reward technical talent