AI Infrastructure Architect

The role

You will design, deploy, and maintain HPC/AI clusters. You will work with researchers, developers, and customers to create workflows and architect large scale performance platforms.

What you will do

• Design, Deploy, and maintain HPC/AI clusters
• Manage AI jobs workflows using various scheduling technology, such as Kubernetes
• Support and maintain continuous integration and delivery pipelines
• Troubleshooting and fixing, bottom up from bare metal, operating system, software stack and application level
• Support Research, Development and Operational activities

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent experience
• 5 years of experience in any of the following: Knowledge of HPC and AI solution technologies to include hardware, hypervisors, CPU’s and GPU’s
• Experience with job scheduling workloads and orchestration tools such as Slurm & K8s
• Excellent knowledge of Linux (i.e. Redhat, Ubuntu) networking (Routing, Switching) and internals, ACLs and OS level security protection and common protocols e.g. TCP, DHCP, DNS, etc.
• Experience with multiple storage solutions such as Lustre, GPFS, zfs and xfs
• Automation and configuration management tools such as Python, Bash within a Gitops workflows
• Knowledge of Networking Protocols like InfiniBand, Ethernet
• Experience with private cloud platforms (for example VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, Openshift and Nutanix)
• Must possess and maintain required DoD 8140 certifications

Nice to have

• Knowledge of GPU architectures, time-slicing, Multi-instance GPU (MIG)
• Experience with container orchestration technologies i.e. Kubernetes, Docker
• Experience designing, deploying AI workflow technologies such as Apache Airflow, Prefect, Dagster
• Background with RDMA (InfiniBand or RoCE) fabrics
• Experience working in regulated industries and applying compliance requirements (i.e. DISA STIG, CIS etc.)
• NVIDIA Certifications (AI Infrastructure, AI Operations, AI networking)
• VMWARE Certifications (Certified Professional / Advanced Professional)
• Familiarity with public cloud computing platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure)

Benefits

• hands-on experience
• certifications
• industry training

Before you apply

• An active TS/SCI federal security clearance is required
• Applicants in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States
• Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture Federal Services or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration

About the company

Accenture Federal Services is a technology company within global Accenture that helps the US federal government. Their 13,000+ people pursue technology and ingenuity for clients across defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health organizations.