Responsibilities
THE ROLE:
AMD is looking for a Principal Infrastructure Architect to help shape the next generation of infrastructure supporting our AMD Instinct environment, global labs, and data centers. This is a highly visible PMTS-level individual contributor opportunity focused on one of AMD’s key infrastructure modernization efforts as we evolve from traditionally managed lab environments toward scalable, automated, cloud-like infrastructure.
In this role, you will partner closely with our primary architect and infrastructure leaders to define the architecture and, equally importantly, drive that vision into implementation. You will help establish how infrastructure services are designed, deployed, and scaled across AMD environments, working across networking, virtualization, storage, observability, automation, and Infrastructure as a Service.
You will have the opportunity to influence long-term infrastructure strategy, evaluate technologies and tools, develop implementation roadmaps, and partner with teams responsible for deploying the architecture across our sites. This is an opportunity to bring experience from hyperscaler, near-hyperscaler, neocloud, or similarly large-scale infrastructure environments and apply it to a significant transformation within AMD.
THE PERSON:
The ideal candidate combines deep infrastructure architecture knowledge with the ability to turn architectural vision into execution. You can operate at a strategic level while maintaining enough technical depth to guide teams through implementation and make informed technology decisions.
You are an effective cross-functional partner who can evaluate competing technologies, build alignment across technical teams, and influence without relying on direct authority. You are equally comfortable communicating with engineering teams and presenting architecture, recommendations, and realistic roadmaps to senior leadership. Strong planning, communication, collaboration, and technical leadership skills will be important to success in this role.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Partner with infrastructure leaders and architects to define and evolve the target-state architecture for AMD’s global lab and data center infrastructure.
- Help transform traditionally managed lab and data center environments into scalable, highly automated, cloud-like infrastructure.
- Translate architecture into actionable implementation roadmaps and drive execution across infrastructure teams and sites.
- Evaluate infrastructure technologies, tools, and services and provide architectural direction around technology selection.
- Provide architectural leadership across networking, hypervisors/virtualized compute, storage, observability, automation, bare-metal infrastructure, and Infrastructure as a Service.
- Partner with managers and technical teams to establish priorities and guide implementation of architectural standards and designs.
- Build alignment across the business and with senior leadership around infrastructure architecture, automation, security, customer-support needs, and long-term direction.
- Help influence infrastructure technology and purchasing decisions needed to deliver the target architecture.
- During initial onboarding, develop a strong understanding of AMD’s architecture goals, current infrastructure environment, data center landscape, and active deployments.
- Begin driving architectural plans into delivery teams and identifying sites and environments for implementation.
- Establish a longer-term roadmap for scaling and implementing the architecture across AMD’s infrastructure environment.
- PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: Experience architecting and implementing infrastructure in a hyperscaler, near-hyperscaler, neocloud, large-scale hosting, or comparable cloud infrastructure environment.
- Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure architecture combined with experience taking architecture through implementation.
- Strong networking knowledge, including segmented network environments.
- Experience with hypervisors and virtualized compute infrastructure.
- Strong understanding of enterprise-scale storage architecture.
- Experience with observability, monitoring, and infrastructure telemetry.
- Experience designing or supporting Infrastructure as a Service and API-driven infrastructure.
- Experience with automation, bare-metal infrastructure, and modern infrastructure management practices.
- Experience developing technical roadmaps and driving architecture implementation across multiple teams or locations.
- Ability to evaluate tools and technologies, understand trade-offs, and make recommendations based on technical and business requirements.
- Experience communicating complex architecture and infrastructure strategy to senior or executive leadership.
- Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional technical teams and drive execution without direct authority.
- GPU, AI data center, HPC, or similarly large-scale compute infrastructure experience is desired.
- ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field is preferred.
- LOCATION: Austin, TX preferred. Additional locations: San Jose, CA; Seattle, WA; Toronto, ON.
- This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
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