Senior Ethernet Network Architect – Data Center & AI

Nvidia Corporation in; Charlottesville (VA); On-site; USD 124,000 - 196,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Solutions Architect, Ethernet Networking - NVIS (Finance) to lead the design, development and deployment of cutting-edge data center networks for NVIDIA customers under the Plan, Design, & Implement (PDI) framework. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate complex requirements into scalable network architectures.

You will travel up to 20% to data centers, work with DevOps tooling, and apply AI-assisted validation to optimize performance, reliability, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, CS, math, physics or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in networking fundamentals incl. TCP/IP, switching, routing, and data center architecture.
• 3+ years designing/building network fabrics for scalable data center compute clusters (CLOS, spine-leaf).
• 2+ years BGP, VXLAN, EVPN; strong Ethernet, TCP/IP, switching and routing experience.
• 2+ years advanced network troubleshooting with packet sniffers/analysis tools.
• 2+ years Linux administration and hardware architecture.
• 1+ years direct customer-facing in requirements, planning, deployment.
• 1+ years network automation with Ansible, Salt, and Python.
• Excellent English communication and presentation skills.
• Willing to travel up to 20% domestically and internationally and work non-standard hours.

Responsibilities

• Providing Ethernet and routing expertise to design, architect, configure and test Ethernet networking solutions.
• Work in multi-functional teams to support server infrastructure, accelerators, and GPU-enabled AI apps.
• Crafting and evaluating DevOps automation scripts for network operations and architectures.
• Implementing network configuration and validation tasks for data centers.
• Create Methods of Procedure and deployment documents.
• Validate network architectures and configs in the lab.
• Create network automation scripts and customize them for customers using AI tools.
• Interact with customers to gather information to design and build optimal solutions.
• Use software and AI tools to validate and monitor network performance.
• Create project documents for handover to customers after completion.
• Travel onsite to customers' data centers up to 20%.

Skills

Networking

Data center

BGP

VXLAN

EVPN

Linux

Customer facing

Python

Ansible

Scripting

English

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Grafana

Prometheus

Datadog

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a Solutions Architect, Ethernet Networking - NVIS (Finance) to lead the design, development and deployment of cutting-edge data center networks for NVIDIA customers under the Plan, Design, & Implement (PDI) framework. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate complex requirements into scalable network architectures.

You will travel up to 20% to data centers, work with DevOps tooling, and apply AI-assisted validation to optimize performance, reliability, and