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Senior Solutions Architect, NVIDIA Cloud Partner Operations

US, CA, Santa ClaraFull-time$224k2026-08-21 → 2026-11-12

Core

Hands-on Solutions Architect raising Day 2 operations bar for NVIDIA Cloud Partners, ensuring cluster health, stability, efficiency, and economics post-installation.

Role type

Senior Solutions Architect (Cloud Operations)

Builds

Operating procedures, reference architectures, assessments, automation, and agentic workflows for NVIDIA Cloud Partners.

Domain

AI Cloud Infrastructure / HPC / GPU Operations

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Large-scale GPU/HPC/Cloud infrastructure operations, Kubernetes/Slurm, GPU scheduling/multi-tenancy, Linux, Python/Bash automation, Incident/Problem management, Observability (Prometheus/Grafana/OpenTelemetry), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Ansible/Argo CD), Cross-functional leadership without direct authority.

Preferred skills

24/7 operations function design, NVIDIA rack-scale platforms (GB200/GB300 NVL72), NVIDIA operations technologies (Spectrum-X/UFM/Base Command Manager/Mission Control), Fleet health/unit economics improvement via benchmarking/GitOps.

Technologies

DCGM, BMC/Redfish, InfiniBand, NCCL, UFM, Lustre, IBM Storage Scale, WEKA, VAST Data, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Terraform, Ansible, Argo CD, Kubernetes, Slurm, Python, Bash, Linux.

Responsibilities

Solve hard Day 2 operations problems at scale by prototyping and validating approaches; Prepare operating models for new NVIDIA platforms and services; Measure and improve reliability, performance, and economics using metrics like incident frequency and cost per token; Identify and close gaps in partner maturity across people, process, tooling, and security; Convert validated solutions into ecosystem capabilities for other partners; Create feedback loops to bring field evidence to product and engineering teams.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC