{"id":4343006,"url":"https://alion.io/job/drivenets-system-architect-infrastructure-and-platform","title":"System Architect- Infrastructure and Platform","company":{"id":1990259,"name":"DriveNets","domain":"drivenets.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/drivenets","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Comeet","truth_index":null},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":"staff","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Ra'anana, Israel"],"countries":["IL"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":4,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"Bootstrap","optional":false},{"name":"InfiniBand","optional":false},{"name":"PKI","optional":false},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-15T16:10:14Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-15","last_verified_at":"2026-11-15T19:49:12Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Description\nRa'anana, Israel | Hybrid\nAbout DriveNets\nDriveNets is a leader in large-scale networking solutions for AI infrastructure and service providers. Founded in 2016, the company created a radical new way to build networks that substantially improves the network’s economic model and optimizes its utilization and efficiency.\nDriveNets Network Cloud powers production networks for global tier-1 operators such as AT&T, Comcast and KDDI, and carries the majority of AT&T’s core backbone traffic. DriveNets AI Fabric, introduced in 2023, provides the highest-performance Ethernet-based AI networking solutions and the best Ethernet alternative to InfiniBand. It is used by hyperscalers, NeoClouds, and foundation model labs, and is sold in collaboration with partners like AMD and Broadcom. In June 2026, DriveNets closed a $410 million Series D round, bringing its total capital raised to $1 billion. The company has more than $1 billion in secured business.\nThe Role\nSystem Architect role overview\nOwn the system architecture of DNOS, DriveNets’ hyper-scale router software, for both service-provider and AI data-center networks.\nTurn product requirements into specs that dev teams (or the AI SDLC pipeline) can implement and QA can test.\nInfrastructure and platform track: You define the hardware platform, host OS, security and system management of a high-scale distributed system. This includes boot and firmware, resource management, upgrades, high availability, configuration and operations.\nResponsibilities\nArchitecture and specification\nDefine system requirements and lead architectural design across the routing, data path and infrastructure domains.\nDefine management interfaces (YANG, CLI config and show commands, SNMP, system events), operational behavior, and scale and HA expectations.\nOwn each spec from requirement through implementation, and maintain the architecture docs for your areas.\n\nAI SDLC\nOwn the SysArch stage of Product → SysArch → Dev → QA.\nWrite specs, harness context and acceptance criteria so epics can run through the AI pipeline.\nTechnical leadership\nDrive spec and design reviews, and guide engineers through design decisions.\nEstablish design standards that improve resilience, security and efficiency at scale.\nEnsure cross-domain consistency: review interactions such as memory management and HA, upgrades, and data path/HAL, and keep CLI and YANG conventions uniform.\nLead work groups, analyze and presents complex topics clearly to engineering, Product management and customers.\nCustomer and product\nTranslate product strategy and requirements into engineering specs, and help prioritize them.\nEngage directly with customers to present the NOS architecture.\nUnderstand customer asks and translate them into architecture options, with effort and risk assessments for Product.\nArchitects on the infrastructure track also own the hardware and platform specifications that DNOS depends on:\nPlatform management: hardware monitoring, components health, cluster topologies, deployment and upgrade, with aligned specs for each new hardware platform\nSystem boot and firmware: UEFI/BIOS, ONIE, BMC, boot failover and in-service firmware update\nOptical transceivers: optics support and qualification, transceiver management (CMIS), monitoring (DOM), breakout and port mapping\nTiming and synchronization support (IEEE 1588v2)\nPlatform and system security: hardware root of trust (TPM), secure and measured boot, key and certificate management, secure management protocols (ssh, tls) and system hardening\nSecure bootstrap and provisioning: zero-touch provisioning (SZTP), device identity and provisioning of platform security artifacts such as keys, certificates and trust anchors\nHost operating system: kernel, OS services\nSystem resource management: allocation, isolation, monitoring and protection of system resources under scale and HA\nRequirements\nMandatory skills \nBSc in CS or EE.\n4-5 years as a software technical leader, plus 2-3 years in system architecture.\nProven record of leading technical efforts across teams in a matrix organization.\nStrong analytical thinking and problem-solving capabilities.\nStrong presentation skills, both with customers and internally.\nHands-on use of agentic AI flows for research, spec writing and review.\nExperience designing and developing highly complex HW/SW 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