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Principal Architect, Azure Management Solutions
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About the role
- Experience defining architecture for one or more of the following: server management systems, data center infrastructure management, rack management systems, fleet management platforms or hyperscale cloud infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Architects focus on requirements capture, technology insertion, concept and architecture proposals, cost/performance tradeoffs, prototype engineering, and architectural documentation for design/planning reviews.
- Once a program is approved from a conceptual level, Architects partner with the development teams to ensure a smooth transition to full product development.
- Lead development of management architectures across server platforms, accelerated AI systems, storage systems, networking equipment, power systems, cooling infrastructure and heterogeneous vendor platforms.
- Develop management abstractions and interoperability models that enable consistent deployment, monitoring, diagnostics, update, recovery and operational behavior across diverse hardware platforms and suppliers.
- Influence external technology providers, OEMs, ODMs, silicon partners, standards organizations and industry consortia to drive alignment with Azure infrastructure requirements.
- Lead technical engagement with organizations such as OCP, DMTF, Redfish, OpenRMC and other industry bodies associated with infrastructure management standards.
- Communicate architectural strategy, tradeoffs and roadmap decisions to executive leadership while building alignment across multiple engineering organizations.
- Demonstrated ability to influence strategy and drive technical alignment across multiple engineering organizations.
- Experience collaborating with industry partners, standards bodies or technology ecosystems to influence future directions and standards.
Requirements
- Deep knowledge of hardware and firmware management technologies, including BMCs, system controllers, service processors, firmware lifecycle management, telemetry, diagnostics and security architecture.
- Shape the transition from device-level management toward rack, cluster and fleet-level orchestration models required for multi-rack AI infrastructure and next-generation cloud platforms.
- Experience with OCP, OpenRMC, Redfish, DMTF, OpenBMC or related management standards.
Skills
- Experience architecting multi-rack AI, accelerated computing, rack-scale infrastructure or hyperscale cloud deployments.
Benefits
- Demonstrated ability to create long-term technology strategy and translate architectural vision into executable roadmaps
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