Remote Senior OpenStack & GPU Infra Architect

OCI Threads; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

OCI Threads is seeking a Senior OpenStack & GPU Infrastructure Architect to lead architecture, design, and deployment of private cloud and AI infrastructure in a remote capacity. You will own high-level and low-level designs, drive IaC deployments, and validate multi-node OpenStack environments with NVIDIA GPU integration.

Responsibilities include capacity planning, configuring OpenStack core services, benchmarking NCCL, validating DCGM workflows, and producing comprehensive runbooks and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• 8+ years of professional IT infrastructure architecture and cloud engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing enterprise OpenStack private cloud environments.
• Deep technical knowledge of OpenStack compute, networking, and storage architecture.
• Strong Linux administration and automation / IaC experience.
• NVIDIA GPU infrastructure experience including DCGM, Fabric Manager, and NCCL benchmarking.
• HA, disaster recovery, performance tuning, and complex troubleshooting expertise.
• Ability to develop HLD/LLD documentation.

Responsibilities

• Lead OpenStack architecture workshops, HLD, and LLD development.
• Design compute, network, storage, GPU acceleration, and security infrastructures.
• Perform capacity planning, sizing, and hardware resource forecasting.
• Design and support hardened Linux-based OpenStack environments.
• Lead IaC-based OpenStack deployment across control and compute nodes.
• Configure and troubleshoot OpenStack core services (Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Glance, Placement, Horizon).
• Design GPU workloads and container runtime integration.
• Review firmware compatibility for enterprise hardware (BIOS/BMC/GPU/NIC).
• Implement and validate NVIDIA driver stack, Fabric Manager, and DCGM.
• Perform NCCL bandwidth tests and GPU burn-in across multi-node clusters.
• Lead testing for availability, resiliency, failover, and disaster recovery.
• Provide L3 OpenStack architecture and operational support.

Skills

OpenStack

Linux

Infrastructure as Code

NVIDIA GPU infrastructure

NCCL benchmarking

DCGM

High Availability

Disaster recovery

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field

Tools

OpenStack Nova

OpenStack Neutron

OpenStack Cinder

OpenStack Glance

OpenStack Horizon

Fabric Manager

NVIDIA DCGM

NVIDIA driver stack

Job description

OCI Threads is seeking a Senior OpenStack & GPU Infrastructure Architect to lead architecture, design, and deployment of private cloud and AI infrastructure in a remote capacity. You will own high-level and low-level designs, drive IaC deployments, and validate multi-node OpenStack environments with NVIDIA GPU integration.

Responsibilities include capacity planning, configuring OpenStack core services, benchmarking NCCL, validating DCGM workflows, and producing comprehensive runbooks and