Senior OpenStack & GPU Infra Architect - Remote

OCI Threads; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

OCI Threads is seeking a Senior OpenStack & GPU Infrastructure Architect to join our team remotely. You will own architecture workshops, create HLD/LLD, and drive IaC deployments across private cloud clusters featuring OpenStack and NVIDIA GPUs.

You will design compute, network, storage, and security architectures, perform capacity planning, validate driver stacks and DCGM, and lead complex troubleshooting in a fast-paced enterprise environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Minimum 8+ years of professional IT infrastructure architecture and cloud engineering experience.
• Strong, proven hands-on experience designing and implementing enterprise OpenStack private cloud environments.
• Deep technical knowledge of OpenStack compute, networking (Neutron), and storage architecture.
• Strong Linux infrastructure administration and automation / Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) experience.
• Hands-on experience with NVIDIA GPU infrastructure, DCGM, Fabric Manager, and NCCL benchmarking.
• Demonstrated expertise in High Availability (HA), disaster recovery, performance tuning, and complex troubleshooting.
• Ability to independently develop comprehensive HLD, LLD, and implementation architecture documentation.
• Professional availability for remote employment.

Responsibilities

• Lead OpenStack architecture workshops, High-Level Design (HLD), and Low-Level Design (LLD) development.
• Design enterprise compute, network, storage, GPU acceleration, and security infrastructure architectures.
• Perform comprehensive capacity planning, infrastructure sizing, and hardware resource forecasting.
• Design and support hardened Linux-based OpenStack environments across control and compute planes.
• Lead Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) based OpenStack deployment across control and compute nodes.
• Configure, administer, and troubleshoot OpenStack core services including Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Glance, Placement, and Horizon.
• Design and enable high-performance GPU workloads and container runtime integration.
• Review BIOS, BMC, GPU/HGX, NVMe, and NIC firmware compatibility across enterprise hardware.
• Implement, configure, and validate the NVIDIA driver stack, Fabric Manager, and Data Center GPU Manager (DCGM).
• Perform NCCL bandwidth testing, GPU burn-in, and performance validation across AI cluster nodes.
• Lead functional, performance, resiliency, failover, and disaster recovery testing.
• Provide L3 OpenStack architecture, platform troubleshooting, and operational support.

Skills

OpenStack

Neutron Networking

Linux Administration

Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)

NVIDIA GPU infrastructure

DCGM

NCCL

HA / DR

Remote work

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE/IT

Tools

Fabric Manager

NVIDIA DCGM tooling

Kubernetes

Job description

OCI Threads is seeking a Senior OpenStack & GPU Infrastructure Architect to join our team remotely. You will own architecture workshops, create HLD/LLD, and drive IaC deployments across private cloud clusters featuring OpenStack and NVIDIA GPUs.

You will design compute, network, storage, and security architectures, perform capacity planning, validate driver stacks and DCGM, and lead complex troubleshooting in a fast-paced enterprise environment.