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" We are a next generation solutions provider, delivering mission success across government, healthcare, and commercial industries. Iron Bow relies on our passionate people, long standing partnerships, and strategic thinking to solve your most critical challenges. Whether we team with clients, colleagues, or partners, we put each other first.
It’s The Iron Bow Way. THE OPPORTUNITY Iron Bow is seeking a Principal Data Center Solutions Architect with deep experience in enterprise data centers, server platforms, virtualization, containers, hybrid cloud, and AI infrastructure to join the CTO office's Data Center and Cloud practice. This role provides technical leadership and pre-sales support for infrastructure modernization and AI readiness initiatives.
The architect will design multivendor solutions across compute, virtualization, containers, workload migration, storage, networking, data protection, and physical data center infrastructure. Key technologies include VMware vSphere and VCF, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and the broader Red Hat ecosystem, Nutanix, Nvidia/AMD/Intel GPU-accelerated systems, and Iron Bow's strategic partner technologies and services.
The role
focuses on infrastructure for AI training, fine-tuning, inference, and data pipelines. HOW YOU'LL MAKE AN IMPACT Research and evaluate enterprise data center, hybrid cloud, and AI infrastructure technologies that address customer mission and business requirements Build relationships with strategic OEMs and partners across compute, virtualization, containers, storage, networking, data protection, and data center facilities Lead customer discovery, assessments, architecture, and solution development for data center modernization, AI readiness, consolidation, platform transitions, and workload migrations Architect multivendor server, virtualization, and container solutions based on VMware vSphere and VCF, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and OpenShift Container Platform, Nutanix Cloud Platform and AHV, and the supporting management and automation tools Develop workload placement and migration plans that consider application dependencies, data gravity, performance, accelerator needs, compatibility, pilot groups, migration waves, cutover, rollback, training, and operational handoff Design CPU- and GPU-based compute platforms using Cisco UCS and Intersight, Dell PowerEdge and OpenManage Enterprise, HPE ProLiant and OneView/iLO, and related NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, DPU, and interconnect technologies Prepare hypervisor and container environments for accelerator-backed workloads, including GPU passthrough and partitioning, device plugins and operators, scheduling, resource isolation, driver and firmware lifecycle management, observability, and security Integrate high-speed networking, storage, data protection, disaster recovery, observability, and security into architectures that support AI data ingestion, training, checkpointing, model repositories, and inference Account for rack space, high-density power, UPS and PDU capacity, air or liquid cooling, cabling, resiliency, lifecycle, and site constraints in solution designs, bills of material, and implementation plans Provide pre-sales support for data center, cloud, and AI infrastructure engagements, and serve as a technical point of contact for critical customer escalations and post-sales consultations Support RFQs, RFPs, technical proposal volumes, LOEs, bills of material, capacity assumptions, and high-level and low-level design documentation Develop and deliver technical proposals, whitepapers, presentations, demonstrations, workshops, reference architectures, and sales collateral Enable sales teams, post-sales architects, engineers, and partners through reusable architecture, lab and proof-of-concept environments, and technical mentoring Brief Iron Bow business units on data center, cloud, and AI infrastructure trends, platform and accelerator roadmaps, support models, licensing, and customer impact SKILLS THAT DRIVE SUCCESS 15+ years of engineering or consulting experience with enterprise servers, virtualization, containers, data centers, and hybrid cloud in pre-sales and post-sales roles, including GPU-accelerated or data-intensive environments 15+ years of IT consulting experience supporting a diverse client base, with an emphasis on Department of War customers and complex, mission-critical environments Ability to architect multivendor compute, virtualization, container, storage, and networking solutions for large government and enterprise customers Expert-level architecture and hands-on experience with VMware vSphere and VCF, including lifecycle management, availability, networking, storage, operations, migration, and GPU-enabled virtual machines Strong expertise with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and the supporting Red Hat ecosystem, including RHEL, OpenShift Container Platform, KVM, Ansible Automation Platform, OpenShift Data Foundation/Ceph, Advanced Cluster Management, Migration Toolkit for Virtualization, and GPU enablement for containerized workloads Strong expertise with Nutanix Cloud Platform, AOS, AHV, Prism, resiliency and failure-domain design, capacity planning, lifecycle operations, Nutanix Move, and GPU-enabled virtual machines Experience assessing and migrating production workloads among VMware, OpenShift Virtualization, and Nutanix using discovery, dependency mapping, compatibility testing, pilots, data protection, cutover planning, rollback, and operational handoff Deep familiarity with Cisco UCS and Intersight; Dell PowerEdge, iDRAC, and OpenManage Enterprise; and HPE ProLiant, iLO, and OneView, including GPU-capable systems, power and thermal requirements, and firmware compatibility Working architecture knowledge of data center networking, including LAN/SAN and leaf-spine design, VLAN/VRF, EVPN/VXLAN, Fibre Ch
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