Senior Architect for Secure Research Infrastructure

Duties & Responsibilities

• Architect AI/HPC Infrastructure: Design and scale GPU clusters and high-speed interconnects to support large-scale model training and inference.
• Engineered Secure Enclaves: Build isolated walled-garden environments using hardware-based Trusted Execution Environments or micro-segmentation to process sensitive datasets.
• Compliance Engineering: Translate requirements from compliance standards such as NIST, SPRS, HIPAA, and CMMC into technical controls. You will build the technical infrastructure that serves as the source of truth for audits.
• DevSecOps & Automation: Lead the Infrastructure as Code strategy using such as Terraform or Ansible to ensure that security patches and configuration changes are audited, versioned, and immutable.
• High-Performance Storage: Manage petabyte-scale, parallel file systems (e.g., Lustre, VAST, GPFS) with integrated encryption-at-rest and strict POSIX/ACL access controls.
• Perform other related duties and participate in special projects as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications Required

• Bachelor Degree within Computer Science or closely related field of study.
• Minimum of 10 years of professional level IT experience within Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Research Computing including the design and implementation of advanced high performance computing systems; data (acquisition, storage, management and reporting); and networks in support of research initiatives.
• Demonstrated record of building systems with System Security Plans that successfully passed audits for compliance standards such as HIPAA, NIST 800-53/171, or CMMC level 2.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Slurm/Kubernetes orchestration and InfiniBand/NVLink/RoCE network topology.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with security, scanning, and auditing platforms such as Splunk,
• Experience with encrypting data at rest and in motion at hybrid and federated systems
• 7+ years in Systems Engineering, with 3+ years specifically in designing secure enclaves and HPC or AI infrastructure.
• Experience working with IAM systems such as SailPoint, InCommon, and CILogon
• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience with Secure Enclaves, identity management (Entra/AD), and Zero Trust Architecture.
• Proficiency in Python, bash, CI/CD pipelines (GitLab/GitHub Actions), and Linux kernel hardening.

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