Senior Solutions Architect, Networking

As a key member of the NVIDIA Professional Services Solution Architecture team, your role involves spearheading the conception, development, and execution of cutting-edge data center networks for NVIDIA customers under the Plan, Design, & Implement (PDI) framework. You will play a crucial role in advancing comprehensive technology solutions for our strategic clientele in web2.0, cloud, HPC AI, and enterprise datacenter domains. Additionally, you will be tasked with identifying areas for improvement in business technology, providing valuable insights, and furnishing recommendations to both marketing and engineering teams to enhance our overall product strategy.

What you'll be doing:

• Providing Ethernet expertise to customers during the sales cycle to design, architect and test Ethernet networking solutions

• Work on multi-functional teams to provide Ethernet network expertise to server infrastructure builds, accelerated computing workloads and GPU enabled AI applications

• Crafting and evaluating DevOps automation scripts for network operations, crafting network architectures, and developing switch configurations.

• Implementing tasks related to network implementation and validation for data centers.

What we need to see:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or Computer Science or equivalent experience.

• 8+ years of proficient in networking fundamentals, TCP/IP stack, and data center architecture.

• Proactive individual with the ability to work independently, prioritizing tasks to optimize technology and enhance customer experience.

• 8+ years experience working with clients for network requirement analysis, designs next-gen data center network architectures, and validates functionality through simulations.

• Plays a pivotal role in automation, delivering fully automated network provisioning solutions using Ansible, Salt, and Python.

• Provides ad-hoc knowledge transfers, develops handover materials, and offers deployment support for engagements.

• Background in datacenter engineering, networking architecture, or cloud applications is advantageous.

• Requires understanding of system-level issues, Linux OS, kernel drivers, PCIe devices, and computer hardware architecture.

• Values familiarity with NetDevOps workflows, automation, infrastructure-as-code, digital simulation, continuous integration/deployment, and automated validation.

• Strong interpersonal skills for technical presentations, architectural designs, and acting as a trusted advisor to customers. (Extensive experience in sales, consulting, support)

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Combination of interpersonal skills and technical competence

• Demonstrate ability to work well in a team and be accountable for results.

• Understand networking fundamentals, including "life of a packet" as it traverses through a data center

• Familiarity with networking digital simulations, experience with NVIDIA Air, GNS3, EVE-NG

• Personal Git repository with examples of coding expertise in Python

NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers! We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking individuals in the world working for us. If you're creative and autonomous, we want to hear from you!

The base salary range is 180,000 USD - 276,000 USD. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.