Job Responsibilities/Top Qualifications:

• Hands on technical architect responsible to design, build and manage large compute (GPU/HPC) clusters, troubleshoot issues for POC and production deployments.  Implement solutions and ensure successful deployments through code development and scripting. 
• Build automated cluster deployment tool using Terraform and Ansible.
• Work with some of the largest Oracle customers to grow our business in a pre/post sales and technical consulting role.
• Define new tailored HPC/GPU solutions based on business requirements
• As a trusted customer advocate, you will help customers/partners understand best practices around advanced GPU solutions, and how to migrate their workloads to the cloud.  
• Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of Oracle and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.
• Act as a technical liaison between customers, core engineering teams, and support.
• Japanese Language skills are a must
   

Technical: 

• Demonstrate a solid understanding of IaaS, HPC, GPU technologies, Linux OS and networking and security requirements for running GPU/HPC applications in the cloud. 
• Expertise with designing on premises / Cloud based HPC/GPU deployments and Cloud native HPC/GPU solutions
• Scripting capability in one or more languages – Python, shell/bash, etc, 
• Deployment automation using Terraform and Ansible 
• Knowledge of TCP/IP fundamentals, RDMA, InfiniBand, cluster networking and running MPI jobs
• Working knowledge of distributed/parallel file systems and storage appliances
• Working knowledge of GPUs and GPU applications. 
• Experience with HPC cluster deployment and scheduler like (Slurm, PBS, etc.) 
• Experience with Kubernetes & Docker

Education: Bachelor and/or Masters level degree, ideally in Computer Science, Math or Engineering or other relevant discipline.
Business Experience: Understand the challenges in working with large customers. 5+ years of pre sales or technical consulting. 
High acumen: for assessing, compiling great technical content, and white papers about emerging technologies and industry developments. 
Collaboration: Enjoy and have experience with internal teams to define the product road map, market positioning, and other program initiatives targeted at specific audiences e.g. developers and IT pros.
No Fear: dynamic and creative, and willing to take on any challenge and make a big impact. 
Connector: The ability to connect technology with measurable business value is critical to a solutions architect. 
Strategic Thought Leadership: You should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, products, and technical challenges.

Engages with strategic customers, builds leadership relationships at multiple levels within organizations in order to design and implement solutions.  Works directly with customers to gather requirements, develop architectures and translates business needs into solutions. May implement solutions and ensure successful deployments through code development and scripting.  Displays product/application understanding through highly customized presentation demonstrations to customers, and at conferences, and events.  Supports customer from Proof of Concept (POC) through production deployment of services via resource configuration, planning, and customer education/training.  Creates and distributes technical assets (white papers, solution code, blog posts, and video demonstrations).  Serves as a leading contributor for customers and sales on technical cloud solutions and customer success. Identifies gaps and enhancements to influence engineering roadmaps for customer driven features. Leading contributor, may provide direction and mentoring to others.  Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization.  May interact  with C level.  Maintains expertise by staying current on emerging technologies.

Career Level - IC4