Solution Architect HPC and Container Platform at Sofia, Bulgaria

Required Skills:

· Knowledge and experience with Linux System Administration, package management, scheduling, boot procedures/troubleshooting, performance optimization, and networking concepts.

· In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with HPC technologies, workload schedulers – Slurm, Altair PBS pro, and cluster managers – HPCM, Bright cluster manager.

· In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with containerization technologies like Docker, Singularity, or Podman.

· In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with at least two of the container orchestration technologies like CNCF Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, SUSE Rancher RKE/K3S, Canonical charmed kubernetes or HPE Ezmeral Runtime. Good to have

· Good knowledge and hands-on experience with OpenStack cloud solutions.

· Good knowledge and hands-on experience with virtualization technologies like KVM, OpenShift virtualization

· Good knowledge and hands-on experience with at least two various Linux distributions like RHEL, SLES, Ubuntu, Debian.

· Good Knowledge of GPU technologies, NVIDIA GPU operator, NVIDIA vGPU technology

· Good knowledge of HPC networking stack (high speed networking), InfiniBand, Mellanox

· Good experience in performance optimization and health assessment of HPC components

such as operating systems, storage, servers, parallel file systems, schedulers, and container orchestration platforms.

· Must be good in any of the programming or scripting languages like python, bash

· Good understanding of DNS, TCP/IP, Routing and Load Balancing.

· Knowledge of network protocols like TCP/IP, S3, FTP, NFS, or SMB/CIFS

· Familiarity with microservices architecture, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps tools.

· Excellent problem-solving abilities, analytical thinking, and communication skills to interact with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

· Ability to lead technical projects by gathering the requirements, preparing the architecture / design and executing it end to end. Must be able to bring clarity and drive complex projects involving multiple stakeholders.

· Solid business acumen and ability to converse with client on issues and challenges.

· Demonstrates a solid knowledge of the company's breadth of solutions.

· Demonstrates a high-level understanding of all related vendor product roadmaps.

Qualifications:

· Bachelor’s/master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.

· Proven experience as a Solutions Architect, HPC and Container platform Specialist, or similar role, with expertise in designing and implementing complex solutions.

· Red Hat Certified Specialist in Containers and Kubernetes (RHCSA, RHCE), CNCF certification - CKA, CKAD, CKS is preferred.

· Typically, 6-8 years of experience in delivering complex HPC and container platform projects.