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This role is focused on designing, deploying, operating, and troubleshooting large-scale Linux-based infrastructure that powers both traditional enterprise workloads and modern AI/ML environments.\nThis is not a DevOps-focused role. We already have a dedicated DevOps team and are looking for an engineer with extensive hands-on experience in Bare Metal as a Service (BMaaS), GPU infrastructure, high-performance storage, data center operations, and enterprise Linux platforms.\nThe ideal candidate will have experience building and managing infrastructure from the hardware layer up, including servers, networking, storage, GPU clusters, and AI-ready platforms. They should be comfortable working with high-performance computing (HPC), AI Factory environments, and large-scale Linux deployments where performance, reliability, and operational excellence are critical.\nKey Responsibilities & Required Skills\nLinux & Bare Metal Infrastructure\nExpert-level Linux administration (Ubuntu required; Red Hat and SUSE preferred)\nDeep expertise in bare metal server deployment, architecture, provisioning, and lifecycle management\nExperience operating Bare Metal as a Service (BMaaS) platforms and large-scale infrastructure environments\nStrong understanding of server hardware, including:BIOS/UEFI\nRAID controllers\nFirmware management\niLO/iDRAC/IPMI\nNICs and SmartNICs\nHBA cards\nHardware diagnostics and troubleshooting\n\nExperience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise Linux infrastructure at scale\nAI Factory & GPU Infrastructure\nExperience deploying and managing GPU-accelerated infrastructure for AI/ML workloads\nUnderstanding of NVIDIA GPU technologies including:A100, H100, H200, B200, or equivalent GPU platforms\nNVIDIA DGX and OEM GPU servers\nGPU provisioning and lifecycle management\nGPU monitoring and performance optimization\n\nKnowledge of AI Factory architecture and infrastructure requirements\nExperience supporting GPU clusters, AI training environments, and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads\nUnderstanding of:GPU resource allocation and scheduling\nMulti-GPU systems\nGPU networking requirements\nHigh-bandwidth, low-latency infrastructure design\n\nFamiliarity with NVIDIA ecosystem technologies such as:CUDA\nNCCL\nGPUDirect Storage\nNVIDIA Fabric Manager\nNVIDIA Base Command (preferred)\n\nEnterprise Storage & Data Platforms\nAdvanced Linux storage administration:LVM\nXFS, EXT4\nNFS\niSCSI\nFibre Channel SAN\nMultipath I/O\n\nStrong hands-on experience with Ceph, including:Cluster architecture\nMON, OSD, MDS\nRBD, CephFS, RGW\nCapacity planning\nPerformance tuning\nFailure recovery\n\nExperience with high-performance AI storage platforms such as:WEKA\nVAST Data\nDell PowerScale\nPure Storage FlashBlade\nNetApp\n\nUnderstanding of:NVMe-over-Fabrics (NVMe-oF)\nRDMA\nGPUDirect Storage\nParallel file systems\nAI data pipelines\n\nNetworking & Infrastructure\nStrong networking knowledge:Bonding\nVLANs\nRouting\nMTU optimization\nDNS\nDHCP\n\nExperience with high-performance data center networking:100G/200G/400G Ethernet\nRoCE\nRDMA\nSpine-Leaf architectures\n\nFamiliarity with NVIDIA Spectrum-X, Mellanox/NVIDIA ConnectX adapters, or equivalent technologies\nStrong understanding of Layer 2 and Layer 3 infrastructure design and troubleshooting\nOperations & Reliability\nExperience with high availability, clustering, and disaster recovery\nStrong troubleshooting skills across:Linux operating systems\nHardware platforms\nGPU infrastructure\nNetworking\nEnterprise storage\n\nExperience supporting mission-critical production environments\nBash and Python scripting for automation and operational efficiency\nExperience creating operational documentation, runbooks, and infrastructure standards\nUnderstanding of AI infrastructure design and reference architectures\nAI cloud integration for workloads\nSOP and runbook development and maintenance\nIncident, problem, and capacity management\nBusiness continuity and disaster recovery planning for AI workloads\nProactive risk identification and mitigation to avoid business impact\nNice to Have\nKubernetes infrastructure (especially AI/ML and GPU integration)\nKVM, VMware, OpenShift Virtualization, or similar virtualization platforms\nAnsible automation\nNVIDIA Base Command Manager\nSlurm or HPC workload schedulers\nObservability and monitoring platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)\nData Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) tools\nIPAM solutions\nAWS, Azure, or hybrid cloud exposure\nWe Are Not Looking For\nCandidates whose experience is primarily CI/CD pipeline engineering\nEngineers focused mainly on Terraform, GitOps, or application delivery pipelines\nCloud-only administrators with limited bare metal, storage, or hardware experience\nProfessionals whose primary expertise is software development rather than infrastructure engineering\nIdeal Candidate\nSomeone who has spent years designing, building, and operating enterprise Linux environments, large-scale bare metal infrastructure, storage platforms, and modern AI Factory environments. The ideal candidate understands how to deploy and manage GPU-enabled infrastructure, BMaaS platforms, enterprise storage, and high-performance networking while solving complex operating system, hardware, storage, and AI infrastructure challenges. 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