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About Amd
AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) is a semiconductor company that develops high-performance processors, graphics cards, and adaptive computing solutions for gaming, data centers, and embedded markets. Industry: Semiconductors
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The Principal Infrastructure Lead is a hands-on individual contributor role within the platform engineering organization, supporting AMD’s flagship data center GPU platforms, including Helios. This position serves as a technical leader across three core pillars: networking, storage, and compute virtualization. The role involves diagnosing complex infrastructure incidents, performing root cause analysis using logs and packet captures, and designing scalable solutions for new data center builds and hardware refreshes. Key responsibilities include managing VLANs, VXLAN/EVPN, BGP, and OSPF, as well as enterprise storage technologies like NVMe-oF, Ceph, and vSAN. Candidates must utilize Linux administration, VMware vSphere, KVM, and infrastructure-as-code tools like Ansible or Terraform. The work focuses on ensuring reliability and performance for large-scale AI and large language model workloads.
Diagnose and resolve complex infrastructure incidents across data center networking, storage, and compute virtualization.
Lead technical troubleshooting and root cause analysis using monitoring, logs, and packet captures to prevent recurring failures.
Support the deployment and enablement of new data center GPU platforms and their surrounding infrastructure.
Design and implement infrastructure solutions for new data center builds, site expansions, and hardware refreshes.
Recommend architecture and reliability improvements to enhance platform availability, performance, and recovery.
Establish infrastructure monitoring, alerting systems, documentation, and operational runbooks.
Identify opportunities to reduce repetitive operational work through automation, scripting, and infrastructure-as-code.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers to raise the team's overall technical capabilities.
What we're looking for
Principal or staff-level, hands-on experience supporting data center, private cloud, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering environments (preferred).
Deep technical expertise across data center networking, enterprise storage, and compute virtualization (preferred).
Experience diagnosing complex, cross-domain infrastructure issues across network, storage, compute, and virtualization layers (preferred).
Data center networking knowledge including VLANs, VXLAN/EVPN, BGP, OSPF, and load balancers (preferred).
Enterprise storage experience across SAN, NAS, or software-defined storage platforms (preferred).
Experience with compute virtualization platforms such as VMware vSphere/ESXi, KVM/QEMU, Proxmox, or Hyper-V (preferred).
Strong Linux administration and command-line troubleshooting skills (preferred).
A bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field (preferred).
Infrastructure as a Service
Cloud Infrastructure
Networking
Virtualization
Hypervisors
Storage Architecture
Observability
Automation
Bare-metal Infrastructure
API-driven Infrastructure
HPC
GPU
AI Data Center
Infrastructure Telemetry
C
C++
Rust
Linux
DPDK
SmartNIC
Kernel Drivers
SDN
Virtualization
Packet Processing
Hardware-Software Co-design
Distributed Systems
OCI
Networking Protocols
Data Center Architecture
Capacity Planning
Power and Cooling Design
High-Performance Networking
Storage Connectivity
Colocation
HPC
AI Infrastructure
Thermal Assessment
Infrastructure Lifecycle Planning
Site Selection
Rack-Power Modeling
Cloud Infrastructure
Physical Infrastructure