Principal Infrastructure Engineer

Job summary

The Principal Infrastructure Engineer leads architecture and implementation for a globally distributed, AI-native cloud platform supporting HPC and AI/ML workloads. The role spans Kubernetes across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, high-performance storage and networking, infrastructure security, observability, and automation using technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, Go, and Python. It also guides architecture decisions and mentors engineers.

Benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in infrastructure architecture and solution design, including technical proposals.
• Experience evaluating and adopting tools and technologies.
• Expertise in large-scale infrastructure, particularly AI-native, HPC, or cloud-native environments.
• Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes, container networking, and service meshes.
• Deep understanding of virtualisation and hypervisors for high-performance workloads.
• Proficiency in TCP, UDP, DNS, BGP, and software-defined networking.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
• Hands-on coding experience in Go, Python, or similar languages.
• Knowledge of observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana, and distributed tracing.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and technical documentation skills.
• Preferred experience with GPU-accelerated systems, RDMA fabrics, distributed storage, hybrid cloud, or edge computing.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement virtualisation solutions for AI-native and HPC workloads.
• Design resilient, scalable infrastructure for storage and networking demands.
• Lead provisioning, orchestration, and lifecycle management of bare-metal hardware.
• Configure and maintain secure, performant Unix/Linux systems at scale.
• Design high-performance cloud-native storage and networking solutions.
• Deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
• Build CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure delivery and global operations.
• Implement Kubernetes security, secrets management, supply-chain security, and least-privilege access.
• Build observability pipelines for logs, metrics, and tracing.
• Develop automation frameworks using Terraform, Ansible, Go, and Python.
• Evaluate technologies and develop architectural proposals aligned with technical and business requirements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and mentor engineers.

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Industry

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