Senior Ethernet Solutions Architect — Data Center Networking

NVIDIA; South Carolina; On-site; USD 148,000 - 287,500; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA Infrastructure Specialists Solutions Architecture team seeks a seasoned network architect to lead design, deployment, and validation of data center networks for strategic customers. You will drive Ethernet fabric designs, DevOps automation, and lab validation across HPC, cloud, web2.0, and enterprise domains.

You will collaborate with marketing and engineering to refine product strategies, guide customer engagements, and deliver scalable spine-leaf/CLOS architectures with BGP, EVPN, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience designing and building network fabrics for scalable data center compute clusters, including CLOS and spine-leaf architectures.
• Expert-level proficiency in BGP, VxLAN, and EVPN for network design and troubleshooting (5+ years), with strong overall Ethernet/TCP/IP switching and routing experience (10+ years).
• Advanced network troubleshooting skills using packet sniffers and analysis tools (8+ years).
• Strong Linux administration background including kernel drivers, PCIe devices, system-level diagnostics, and computer hardware architecture (6+ years).
• Experience with High Performance Compute (HPC) network storage technologies and the ability to simulate and validate customer network topologies in lab environments.
• 6+ years of direct customer-facing experience in network requirement gathering, analysis, project planning, and deployment, with 4+ years in consulting or technical support roles.
• Proficiency in network automation using Ansible, Salt, and Python scripting (3+ years).
• Excellent communication and presentation skills in English, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Self-motivated team player capable of independently prioritizing tasks, with willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 25% and work non-standard hours as needed.

Responsibilities

• Providing Ethernet and routing expertise to customers during project delivery to design, architect, configure and test Ethernet networking solutions
• Work in multi-functional teams to provide Ethernet networking expertise to server infrastructure builds, accelerated computing workloads and GPU enabled AI applications
• Crafting and evaluating DevOps automation scripts for network operations, designing architectures, and developing switch fabric configurations.
• Implementing tasks related to network configuration and validation 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 to specific customers' needs utilizing AI tools
• Interact directly with customers to obtain required information to design and build optimal solutions
• Use software tools to validate and monitor network performance
• Create project documents to hand over to the customer upon project completion
• Travel onsite to the customers' data Centers to perform initial configuration work

Skills

TCP/IP

Switching

Routing

Data Center Networking

BGP

VxLAN EVPN

Linux Administration

Python Scripting

Ansible Salt

Kubernetes

Docker

Customer-facing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or equivalent experience

Tools

GNS3

EVE-NG

Grafana

Prometheus

Datadog

NVIDIA Air

Git

Job description

NVIDIA Infrastructure Specialists Solutions Architecture team seeks a seasoned network architect to lead design, deployment, and validation of data center networks for strategic customers. You will drive Ethernet fabric designs, DevOps automation, and lab validation across HPC, cloud, web2.0, and enterprise domains.

You will collaborate with marketing and engineering to refine product strategies, guide customer engagements, and deliver scalable spine-leaf/CLOS architectures with BGP, EVPN, and