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ADVANCE THE WORLD.\nAt AMD, we believe technology has the power to solve the world’s most important challenges. From advancing healthcare and scientific discovery to powering AI and the technologies people rely on every day, innovation at AMD is shaping the future.\nWhether you’re designing next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, or bringing leading edge products to market, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger - technology that moves the world forward. Join us and, together, we’ll advance your career.\nTHE ROLE:\nAMD is looking for a Principal Member of Technical Staff Infrastructure Lead to help enable and support the infrastructure behind AMD’s flagship data center GPU platforms, including Helios. This is a highly visible, hands-on individual contributor role within a growing platform engineering organization supporting cutting-edge AI and large language model workloads.\nIn this role, you will serve as a technical leader across the three core pillars of data center infrastructure: networking, storage, and compute virtualization. You will work across infrastructure architecture, platform, security, and engineering teams to solve complex issues that span multiple technical domains.\nYou will be at the forefront of bringing new platforms and data center environments online, improving infrastructure reliability, and ensuring that critical issues are resolved quickly and do not recur. This is an opportunity to influence how AMD builds and operates its next generation of data center GPU infrastructure while working on technology at significant scale.\nTHE PERSON:\nThe ideal candidate is a proactive, hands-on technical leader who enjoys solving complex infrastructure problems and can connect issues across networking, storage, and virtualization environments.\nThe successful candidate will demonstrate strong ownership, sound technical judgment, and the ability to remain effective during high-priority incidents. The candidate should be comfortable leading technical discussions, communicating clearly with engineering teams and leadership, and working independently in a fast-moving environment.\nThis person will thrive on a team that values flexibility, responsiveness, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Because this is an infrastructure reliability leadership role, the candidate should also be comfortable providing support outside standard business hours when critical incidents require additional attention.\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES:\nDiagnose and resolve complex infrastructure incidents spanning data center networking, storage, and compute virtualization.\nLead technical troubleshooting and root cause analysis using monitoring, logs, packet captures, and performance data to identify failure points and prevent repeat incidents.\nPartner with infrastructure architecture, platform, security, and domain engineering teams to implement reliable, scalable infrastructure solutions.\nSupport the deployment and enablement of new AMD data center GPU platforms, including the surrounding network, storage, compute, and virtualization infrastructure required for operation.\nDesign, review, and implement infrastructure solutions for new data center builds, site expansions, migrations, and hardware refreshes.\nRecommend architecture and reliability improvements that reduce incidents and improve platform availability, performance, and recovery.\nEstablish effective infrastructure monitoring, alerting, documentation, and operational runbooks.\nSupport capacity planning, high availability, failover, backup, and disaster recovery activities across infrastructure services.\nIdentify opportunities to reduce repetitive operational work through automation, scripting, and infrastructure-as-code practices.\nProvide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers while helping raise the overall technical capabilities of the team.\nFirst 30 days: Learn AMD’s infrastructure environment, platforms, operating processes, and current technical priorities.\nWithin 60 days: Begin contributing hands-on to infrastructure incidents, larger technical issues, and near-term improvement opportunities.\nWithin 90 days: Take a leading role in incident response and architecture discussions and become a key technical resource for networking, storage, virtualization, and platform infrastructure questions.\nLong term: Serve as a trusted technical authority for platform enablement, infrastructure reliability, incident prevention, and future data center growth.\nPREFERRED EXPERIENCE:\nPrincipal or staff-level, hands-on experience supporting data center, private cloud, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering environments.\nDeep technical expertise across the three core infrastructure pillars: data center networking, enterprise storage, and compute virtualization.\nExperience diagnosing complex, cross-domain infrastructure issues and understanding how failures can propagate across network, storage, compute, and virtualization layers.\nData center networking knowledge, including technologies such as VLANs, VXLAN/EVPN, spine-leaf fabrics, BGP, OSPF, LACP/MLAG, load balancers, firewalls, DNS, DHCP, and NTP.\nExperience troubleshooting network performance using packet captures, flow data, switch/router diagnostics, and telemetry.\nEnterprise storage experience across SAN, NAS, or software-defined storage platforms, including technologies such as Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NVMe-oF, NFS, SMB, Ceph, or vSAN.\nExperience identifying and resolving storage latency, throughput, IOPS, queue depth, multipathing, and resource-contention issues.\nExperience with compute virtualization platforms such as VMware vSphere/ESXi, KVM/QEMU, Proxmox, or Hyper-V.\nStrong Linux administration and command-line troubleshooting skills.\nExperience with bare-metal provisioning, firmware and BIOS management, hardware troubleshooting, and infrastructure lifecycle management.\nExposure to containers or Kubernetes operating within virtualized or bare-metal infrastructure environments.\nExperience with infrastructure monitoring and observability platforms such as Zabbix, Prometheus, or Grafana.\nAutomation, scripting, or infrastructure-as-code experience using tools such as Python, Bash, Go, Ansible, or Terraform is preferred.\nGPU, AI data center, HPC, high-speed Ethernet, RDMA/RoCE, or lossless fabric experience is a plus.\nExperience documenting technical environments and creating operational runbooks, network diagrams, and system architecture documentation.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical risks and recommendations to both engineers and leadership.\nACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:\nA bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field is preferred.\nLOCATION: Austin, Texas preferred. Other U.S. AMD locations may be considered based on business needs.\nThis role is not eligible for employment visa sponsorship\n#LI-CS1\nBenefits offered are described: AMD benefits at a glance.\nAMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants’ needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.\nAMD may use Artificial Intelligence to help screen, assess or select applicants for this position. AMD’s “Responsible AI Policy” is available here.\n\nThis posting is for an existing vacancy.\nTHE ROLE:\nAMD is looking for a Principal Member of Technical Staff Infrastructure Lead to help enable and support the infrastructure behind AMD’s flagship data center GPU platforms, including Helios. This is a highly visible, hands-on individual contributor role within a growing platform engineering organization supporting cutting-edge AI and large language model workloads.\nIn this role, you will serve as a technical leader across the three core pillars of data center infrastructure: networking, storage, and compute virtualization. You will work across infrastructure architecture, platform, security, and engineering teams to solve complex issues that span multiple technical domains.\nYou will be at the forefront of bringing new platforms and data center environments online, improving infrastructure reliability, and ensuring that critical issues are resolved quickly and do not recur. This is an opportunity to influence how AMD builds and operates its next generation of data center GPU infrastructure while working on technology at significant scale.\nTHE PERSON:\nThe ideal candidate is a proactive, hands-on technical leader who enjoys solving complex infrastructure problems and can connect issues across networking, storage, and virtualization environments.\nThe successful candidate will demonstrate strong ownership, sound technical judgment, and the ability to remain effective during high-priority incidents. 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