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Principal Infrastructure Lead

AMD· Engineering
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Hybrid (Austin, Texas)$200kFull-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

Senior technical leadership role focusing on data center infrastructure across networking, storage, and compute virtualization to enable AMD’s flagship data center GPU platforms and large-scale AI workloads.

Responsibilities

  • Diagnose and resolve complex infrastructure incidents spanning data center networking, storage, and compute virtualization.
  • Lead technical troubleshooting and root cause analysis using monitoring, logs, packet captures, and performance data to identify failure points and prevent repeat incidents.
  • Partner with infrastructure architecture, platform, security, and domain engineering teams to implement reliable, scalable infrastructure solutions.
  • Support the deployment and enablement of new AMD data center GPU platforms, including the surrounding network, storage, compute, and virtualization infrastructure required for operation.
  • Design, review, and implement infrastructure solutions for new data center builds, site expansions, migrations, and hardware refreshes.
  • Recommend architecture and reliability improvements that reduce incidents and improve platform availability, performance, and recovery.
  • Establish effective infrastructure monitoring, alerting, documentation, and operational runbooks.
  • Support capacity planning, high availability, failover, backup, and disaster recovery activities across infrastructure services.
  • Identify opportunities to reduce repetitive operational work through automation, scripting, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers while helping raise the overall technical capabilities of the team.
  • First 30 days: Learn AMD’s infrastructure environment, platforms, operating processes, and current technical priorities.
  • Within 60 days: Begin contributing hands-on to infrastructure incidents, larger technical issues, and near-term improvement opportunities.
  • Within 90 days: Take a leading role in incident response and architecture discussions and become a key technical resource for networking, storage, virtualization, and platform infrastructure questions.
  • Long term: Serve as a trusted technical authority for platform enablement, infrastructure reliability, incident prevention, and future data center growth.

Qualifications

  • Principal or staff-level, hands-on experience supporting data center, private cloud, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering environments.
  • Deep technical expertise across data center networking, enterprise storage, and compute virtualization.
  • Experience diagnosing complex, cross-domain infrastructure issues and understanding propagation of failures across network, storage, compute, and virtualization layers.
  • Data center networking knowledge (VLANs, VXLAN/EVPN, spine-leaf fabrics, BGP, OSPF, LACP/MLAG, load balancers, firewalls, DNS, DHCP, NTP).
  • Experience troubleshooting network performance using packet captures, flow data, switch/router diagnostics, and telemetry.
  • Enterprise storage experience (SAN, NAS, software-defined storage) including Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NVMe-oF, NFS, SMB, Ceph, or vSAN.
  • Experience addressing storage latency, throughput, IOPS, queue depth, multipathing, and resource-contention issues.
  • Compute virtualization platforms such as VMware vSphere/ESXi, KVM/QEMU, Proxmox, or Hyper-V.
  • Strong Linux administration and command-line troubleshooting skills.
  • Experience with bare-metal provisioning, firmware and BIOS management, hardware troubleshooting, and infrastructure lifecycle management.
  • Exposure to containers or Kubernetes in virtualized or bare-metal environments.
  • Experience with infrastructure monitoring/observability platforms (Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana).
  • Automation/scripting/infrastructure-as-code (Python, Bash, Go, Ansible, Terraform) preferred.
  • GPU/AI data center, HPC, high-speed Ethernet, RDMA/RoCE, or lossless fabric experience a plus.
  • Experience documenting technical environments and creating runbooks, diagrams, and architecture documentation.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Skills

Required:Data center networkingEnterprise storageCompute virtualizationLinux administration
Nice to have:Automation/infrastructure as code
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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