Field Architect (Federal) (Fully Remote)

MinIO; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

MinIO is seeking a senior architect to lead AIStor deployments for federal customers, ensuring alignment with FIPS 140-3, FedRAMP, and NIST 800-53. You will design topology, tiering, and replication strategies while establishing a trusted technical authority.

You will partner with resellers and integrators, deliver training, and create reference architectures and white papers to support federal opportunities. The role emphasizes securing data and maximizing GPU utilization in AI pipelines.

Qualifications

• Lead PoVs, technical demonstrations, and reference architecture design for federal opportunities.
• Provide technical training and architecture guidance to federal partners.
• Serve as technical contact for joint architecture work with ecosystem partners like NVIDIA and Databricks.
• Guide deployments across Kubernetes distributions used in federal environments.

Responsibilities

• Architect AIStor deployments for federal customers, including erasure coding, tiering, and replication topology design.
• Advise on inference and agentic AI architecture to reduce recompute overhead and maximize GPU utilization.
• Lead PoVs and reference architectures for federal opportunities.

Skills

FedRAMP

Zero Trust

NIST 800-53

GPU utilization

Tools

OpenShift

Rancher

NVIDIA

Databricks

Job description

• Architect AIStor deployments for federal customers, including erasure coding, tiering, and replication topology design.
• Serve as technical authority on FIPS 140-3, FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, and Zero Trust alignment.
• Lead PoVs, technical demonstrations, and reference architecture design for federal opportunities.

Partner Engagement:

• Provide technical training and architecture guidance to federal reseller, systems integrator, and technology partners.
• Serve as technical point of contact for joint architecture work with ecosystem partners like NVIDIA and Databricks.
• Develop reference architectures and white papers to support the Federal Partner Sales team.

Technical Expertise:

• Guide deployment across Kubernetes distributions common in federal environments, including OpenShift and Rancher.
• Architect data infrastructure for AI training, fine-tuning, and data lake workloads, ensuring GPU clusters are fully utilized.
• Advise on inference and agentic AI architecture to reduce recompute overhead and maximize GPU utilization.

MinIO

MinIO is the data and memory foundation for enterprise AI, delivering AIStor and MemKV to unify data across core, edge, and cloud. Trusted by 77% of the Fortune 100, the company is redefining how AI factories and intelligent applications secure and unlock data value.