Softpath Technologies - Delivery Lead - Container Platform

Role : Delivery Lead - Container Platform Location ; Bangalore Looking for a Solutions Architect with 10 Years of overall experience and 6-8 years of experience in delivering complex HPC and container platform projects. Years of experience needed : - 10 Years of overall experience and 6-8 years of experience in delivering complex HPC and container platform projects Job Description/Responsibilities : - Leadership and Strategy - Develop HPC and container platform roadmaps and strategies for growth based on business needs - Engage in and enhance the complete service lifecycle-from conceptualization and design to implementation and operation - Identify the growth path and scalability options of a solution and include these in design activities - Solution Design, architecture and Planning - Gather requirements, assess technical feasibility, and design integrated HPC and container solutions that align with business objectives. - Architect and optimize the technical solutions to meet the requirements of the customer. - Identify the potential challenges and constraints that impact the solution and project plan. - Opportunity assessment - Respond to the technical sections of RFIs/RFPs and Lead proof-of-concept engagements to a successful conclusion - Utilize an effective consultative approach to advance opportunities. - Innovation and Research - Stay abreast of emerging technologies, trends, and industry developments related to HPC, Kubernetes, containers, cloud computing, and Security. - Develop best practices, Accelerators and Show & Tell for HPC and container platform solutions and integrations. - Customer-centric mindset - Strong focus on understanding customer business requirements and solving complex cloud technology issues - Be the trusted advisor, delight customers, and deliver exceptional customer experiences to drive customer success. - Communicate complex technical concepts and findings to non-technical stakeholders. - Team Collaboration - Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including system administrators, developers, data scientist and project managers, to ensure successful project delivery. - Understands the roles and effectively engages other teams and resources within the company - Mentor and train new team members and lead the way in participation in tech talks, forums, innovation - Performance Optimization and Troubleshooting - Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues related to complete solutions. - Identify performance bottlenecks and provide remediations. - Project Delivery (PM certification not required) - 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. Technical Skills: - Container Technologies and Orchestration Platform - In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with containerization technologies like Docker,or Podman - In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with at least two (2) of the container orchestration technologies like CNCF Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, SUSE Rancher RKE/K3S, Canonical charmed kubernetes or HPE Ezmeral Runtime - Linux - Knowledge and experience with Linux System Administration, package management, scheduling, boot procedures/troubleshooting, performance optimization, and networking concepts - Good knowledge and hands-on experience with at least two various Linux distributions like RHEL, SLES, Ubuntu, Debian. - HPC - In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with atleast one (1) HPC technologies, workload schedulers - Slurm, Altair PBS pro, and cluster managers - HPCM, Bright cluster manager - Good experience in performance optimization and health assessment of HPC components such as operating systems, storage, servers, parallel file systems, schedulers. - Good knowledge and hands-on experience containerization technologies like Singularity for HPC - Good knowledge in parallel computing, MPI technologies - Virtualization - Good knowledge and hands-on experience with virtualization technologies like KVM, OpenShift virtualization - Programming Languages - Good experience with Programming like python, - Good experience with Scripting languages like bash - Cloud Platforms - Good knowledge and hands-on experience with OpenStack cloud solutions - Good Knowledge with any of the public cloud container services- AKS, EKS, GKE - Understanding of cloud infrastructure and services for scalable AI deployments. - Good understanding of Cloud Security and Observability - Storage - Indepth knowledge and hands-on experience with CSI drivers - Good knowledge of storage concepts - Block,File and/or Object Storage (like Minio) Networks - Good knowledge of network protocols like TCP/IP, S3, FTP, NFS, or SMB/CIFS - Good knowledge of DNS, TCP/IP, Routing and Load Balancing Networks - HPC - Good knowledge of HPC networking stack (high speed networking), InfiniBand. - GPU - Knowledge of GPU technologies, NVIDIA GPU operator, NVIDIA vGPU technology 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 (ref:hirist.tech)

Location: Bangalore, IN

Posted Date: 10/9/2024