Sr Principal Architect- HW Performance

What you'll do

• Set architecture direction across compute, virtualization, containers, networking, identity, and security domains.
• Lead architecture governance, design reviews, and standards; translate complex technical and regulatory requirements into recommendations.
• Guide governed AI adoption in architecture workflows and contribute to AI infrastructure architecture, including accelerators.

What they ask for

• Formal training or certification on architecture concepts and 10+ years applied experience.
• Extensive experience leading infrastructure or platform architecture initiatives in large-scale technology organizations.
• Deep expertise in on-premises compute, virtualization, and production container platforms such as Kubernetes or OpenShift.
• Experience with datacenter networking, infrastructure identity and security, architecture governance, and safe adoption of enterprise-authorized AI.

Nice to have

• Experience with multi-hypervisor or multi-platform environments; familiarity with sovereign cloud or air-gapped environments.
• Experience with storage architecture, disaster recovery, datacenter failover, business continuity, or fault isolation.

Pay

USD $232,750.00-$325,000.00 base salary

Tools

VMware, KVM, Hyper-V, Kubernetes, OpenShift, SAN, NAS, GPUs

AI focus

Leads governed adoption of enterprise-authorized AI in architecture workflows and contributes to AI infrastructure architecture, including accelerator integration and guardrails for AI-assisted and agentic workflows.