Senior Cloud Automation Architect for AI Infrastructure

Supermicro; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Supermicro in San Jose, California is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead the design and delivery of the SCAC platform powering enterprise-grade automation from firmware to AI workloads across data center and edge environments.

You will shape cloud architectures, guide customers from concept to production, and define patterns that enable scalable automation at global scale, making a lasting impact beyond simple deployment.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science, Computer/Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years in technical lead role, solutions, systems, and software owning HLD and LLD with cross-team design inputs.
• Strong Python coding, analysis, debugging and problem solving.
• Hands on Linux development, Docker, Containers, plus experience with OpenShift or vanilla K8s with understanding controllers, operators, and multi-clusters.
• Experience in Git based development, SQL or NoSQL databases ( e.g. PostgreSQL), Restful API design.
• Security fundamentals, zero-trust principles, image signing, and SBOM basics in vulnerability management.
• Experience in architecting end-to-end solutions, systems management framework for private cloud-based offerings.
• Excellent communication, documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Leading architecture, design for cloud-based orchestration and provisioning solutions
• Evaluating new technologies and rapidly developing proof-of-concepts that can be taken to production ready products
• Own end-to-end solution delivery for SCAC discovery, architecture, implementation, and production readiness
• Create and socialize architectural artifacts in the form of HLD/LLD, integration diagrams, data flows, and ADR’s
• Design integration patterns across Supermicro Software Stack, DCBBS, Kubernetes cluster, Data center level monitoring and reporting platform, OpenShift, VMware, storage, network, and CI/CD
• Identify and close design gaps and risks while proposing mitigation options with clear trade-offs and TCO impact
• Establish and enforce standards in the form of reference architectures, golden paths, and IaC modules
• Champion security-by-design with zero-trust principles, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, and compliance guardrails
• Define orchestration workflows for cluster bring-up, upgrades, patching, and teardown
• Specify installer strategy and UX, including preflight checks, image registry, mirror configuration, repository layout, admin node, IP addressing, and hypervisor flags.
• Formalize integration contracts, API contracts, API’s with SCAC, telemetry, logging, and external registries
• Lead performance, scalability, modeling, and validation to include, but not limited to, concurrency limits, queue backoff, and artifact caching
• Guide delivery execution from design to GA, acceptance criteria, risk registers, exit gates, and sign-offs for security, scale, and operability
• Validate the end-to-end solutions in reference labs and customer environments, ensuring upgrade and rollback readiness, and versioning and packing strategy

Skills

Python

Linux

Docker

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Git

REST API

Security basics

Education

BS in Computer Science

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

VMware

CI/CD

Git

PostgreSQL

Job description

Supermicro in San Jose, California is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead the design and delivery of the SCAC platform powering enterprise-grade automation from firmware to AI workloads across data center and edge environments.

You will shape cloud architectures, guide customers from concept to production, and define patterns that enable scalable automation at global scale, making a lasting impact beyond simple deployment.