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You will define how we implement innovative automation and support solutions, enabling teams to operate seamlessly and deliver impact at global scale-all within an encouraging and inclusive environment.\nWhat you'll be doing:\nGreat opportunity to join the core group at NVIDIA working to architect and build scalable and distributed NGC Cloud services.\n\nBe a technical leader on various projects across the platform, and be a major contributor of the entire platform’s architecture.\n\nInfluence architecture and technical direction while empowering teams to own detailed design and implementation decisions.\n\nDrive operational excellence for secure, scalable secrets management, artifact management.\n\nWhat we need to see:\n15+ years of experience in distributed systems design and development.\n\nMaster’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent experience.\n\nYou possess advanced programming skills to build scalable backend services and micro services architecture. 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