Grid Operations Architect

Job Title

Grid Operations Architect

Role Summary

Lead the technical architecture and multi-year strategy for Siemens' global Engineering Grid Computing Services, scaling and modernizing a multi-site high-performance compute fabric that supports EDA workloads. This role owns the migration to a hierarchical scheduler, consolidation of scheduler platforms, automation, observability, and capacity planning to reach near‑million core scale.

This position combines strategic architecture, vendor liaison, and hands-on infrastructure design while coordinating across networking, storage, cloud, and service teams. Employment is subject to U.S. export control rules (ITAR/EAR) and may require U.S. Person status or export license.

Experience Level

Level: Senior. The role expects approximately 15+ years of progressive systems engineering/infrastructure experience with at least 5 years in architecture or technical leadership.

Responsibilities

Drive the architectural vision, migrations, and operational excellence for a globally distributed HPC/grid service.

• Own the multiyear architectural roadmap and phased migration from AGE to a hierarchical Accelerator scheduler to scale capacity toward ~1M cores.
• Design scalable grid topologies, scheduling frameworks, resource-management strategies, and consolidation approaches to standardize tooling and policies.
• Lead capacity planning, forecasting, and economic justification aligned to utilization and procurement governance.
• Architect hybrid and cloud-burst strategies to augment on-prem capacity while meeting latency and data locality needs of EDA workloads.
• Define fault-tolerant, self-healing architectures and drive automation to reduce manual operational toil by target >50%.
• Specify and implement observability and analytics (Elastic Stack, Grafana, BI) and AI-assisted alerting to move from reactive to predictive operations.
• Lead pilots for emerging technologies (containerized workloads, GPU/accelerator scheduling, next-gen schedulers) and vendor engagements.
• Establish architectural standards, reference designs, governance, change management, and security/compliance for grid operations.
• Present proposals and ROI analyses to senior leadership; mentor and raise team capabilities through cross-training and knowledge transfer.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and experience required to perform this role.

• 15+ years of systems engineering, infrastructure architecture, or HPC/grid operations experience; 5+ years in architecture or technical leadership.
• Hands-on expertise with at least two workload schedulers among Altair Grid Engine, Altair Accelerator, IBM LSF, SLURM or equivalent.
• Proven experience designing and operating large multi-site compute environments (100k+ cores) and performing scheduler migrations or platform consolidations at production scale.
• Strong Linux systems knowledge (RHEL/CentOS), including kernel tuning, performance optimization, and fleet management.
• Infrastructure automation and tooling experience: Python, Perl, Shell scripting and modern IaC/CI-CD (Ansible, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD).
• Knowledge of networking (TCP/IP, DNS, NFS/GPFS, InfiniBand), storage architectures, virtualization, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI) for HPC.
• Demonstrated ability to develop roadmaps, capacity models, stakeholder communication, and present to executive audiences.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with container orchestration for HPC (Docker, Kubernetes, Singularity) and GPU/accelerator scheduling.
• Experience with observability and analytics at scale (Elastic Stack, Grafana, Prometheus, Power BI) and geo-distributed deployments.
• Familiarity with AI/ML operations, database systems for operations data, ITIL 4 processes, and financial modelling/TCO analysis for infrastructure.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field; Master's degree preferred. The posting allows equivalent practical experience in lieu of degree. Preferred certifications include cloud platform certificates (AWS/Azure/GCP/OCI).

About the Company

Company: Siemens

Headquarters: Munich, Germany

Siemens EDA is a leading global provider of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) products and systems. Their innovative solutions enable companies to enhance the development of electronic products efficiently and effectively, keeping pace with the complex demands of technology and physics. Siemens is committed to delivering advanced workflow solutions that integrate both EDA and MCAD tools for multi-domain design and manufacturing in the semiconductor industry.