Solution Architect - HPC & Container Platform
First seen by Alion on Sep 1, 2026.
About the Role :
At AT DAWN Technologies, we are a fast-growing technology services company building high-impact teams across Data Engineering, AI, and Backend Development. We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Solution Architect with expertise in High Performance Computing (HPC) and Container platforms in Linux-based environments.
Key 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 Planning and Design :
- 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.
Required Skills :
- Knowledge and experience with Linux System Administration, package management, scheduling, boot procedures/troubleshooting, performance optimization, and networking concepts.
- In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with HPC technologies, workload schedulers - Slurm, Altair PBS pro, and cluster managers - HPCM, Bright cluster manager.
- In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with containerization technologies like Docker, Singularity, or Podman.
- In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with at least two of the container orchestration technologies like CNCF Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, SUSE Rancher RKE/K3S, Canonical charmed kubernetes or Ezmeral Runtime.
- Good knowledge and hands-on experience with OpenStack cloud solutions.
- Good knowledge and hands-on experience with virtualization technologies like KVM, OpenShift virtualization.
- Good knowledge and hands-on experience with at least two various Linux distributions like RHEL, SLES, Ubuntu, Debian.
- Good Knowledge of GPU technologies, NVIDIA GPU operator, NVIDIA vGPU technology.
- Good knowledge of HPC networking stack (high speed networking), InfiniBand, Mellanox.
- Good experience in performance optimization and health assessment of HPC components such as operating systems, storage, servers, parallel file systems, schedulers, and container orchestration platforms.
- Must be good in any of the programming or scripting languages like python, bash.
- Good understanding of DNS, TCP/IP, Routing and Load Balancing.
- Knowledge of network protocols like TCP/IP, S3, FTP, NFS, or SMB/CIFS.
- Familiarity with microservices architecture, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps tools.
- Excellent problem-solving abilities, analytical thinking, and communication skills to interact with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- 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.
- Demonstrates a solid knowledge of the company's breadth of solutions.
- Demonstrates a high-level understanding of all related vendor product roadmaps.
Qualifications :
- Bachelors/masters 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.
- Typically, 6 - 8 years of experience in delivering complex HPC and container platform projects.
Skills
Solution Architect, HPC, Solution Design, RFP, Linux Server, System Administration, Kubernetes, Red Hat, OpenShift, GPU, TCP/IP