Meet the Team

You will be pivotal in contributing to the team responsible for designing and developing the next generation of scalable Kubernetes infrastructure with machine learning platforms that support both traditional ML and state-of-the-art Large Language Models (LLMs). This is a position for expert engineers where you will lead the technical direction, ensuring the performance, reliability, and scalability of AI systems while collaborating closely with data scientists, researchers, and other engineering teams.

Your Impact

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on expertise inRed Hat OpenShift, proficiency inGolang and/or Python, and a passion for delivering highly reliable, scalable, and secure infrastructure. Hands on experience to AI technologies such asLarge Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)&GPU frameworks.

• Design, deploy, administer, and optimize highly availableRed Hat OpenShiftplatforms.
• Implement and drive Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices to ensure platform reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Develop automation tools, operators, and platform services usingGolang and/or Python.
• Manage cluster lifecycle activities including upgrades, patching, capacity planning, and performance tuning.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions.
• Implement and maintain observability solutions including logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
• Monitor platform health and proactively identify and resolve reliability and performance issues.
• Solve production incidents, perform root cause analysis (RCA), and drive preventive actions.
• Collaborate closely with application and DevOps teams to improve deployment processes and platform adoption.
• Ensure platform security, compliance, and consistency to organizational standards and procedures.
• Participate in16×5 on-call support rotation, providing timely response and resolution for production incidents and ensuring service availability.
• Continuously evaluate and accept emerging technologies to enhance platform capabilities and operational efficiency.
• Collaborate with global cross-functional teams across regions to support platform initiatives, drive operational excellence, and ensure seamless delivery of services and solutions.
• GPU as a Service Platform offering and provide client support for hostingAI/ML workload powered by GPU

Minimum Qualifications / Requirement

• 4+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or related roles.
• Strong hands-on experience withRed Hat OpenShiftadministration, operations, and troubleshooting.
• Proficiency inGolangand/orPythonfor automation and platform engineering.
• Experience with container technologies such asDockerand container runtimes.
• Strong understanding of Linux systems, networking, and distributed systems concepts.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such asTerraform,Ansible, or equivalent.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such asJenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Tekton, or similar.
• Proven experience with observability tools such asPrometheus, Grafana, ELK, Loki, Jaeger, and OpenTelemetry.
• Strong troubleshooting, debugging, and incident management capabilities.
• Hands on experience toAI/ML platforms,Large Language Models (LLMs), andRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)&GPU architectures.
• Experience with AI frameworks such asLangChain,LlamaIndex, or vector databases.
• Ability to support and participate in16×5 on-call rotationsfor critical production environments

Preferred Qualifications / Requirements

• Familiarity with public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Familiarity with GitOps methodologies and tools.
• Experience with service mesh technologies such asIstio.
• Knowledge of container and platform security standards.
• Reliability-first and automation-driven attitude.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced production environment.
• Excellent communication and partnership skills.
• Ownership, accountability, and a customer-focused approach.

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