Firmus Technologies

Technology

SeniorAIInfrastructureEngineer(Virtualisation)

A$175–245k ~AI est. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Launceston, Tasmania, Australia; Singapore FULL TIME
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The Brief

“Senior AI Infrastructure Engineer (Virtualisation) at Firmus Technologies. Skills: Virtualisation, Bare-metal, GPU, Storage, Kubernetes, Slurm, Infrastructure automation, AI workload performance. Design scalable control plane. Implement scalable control plane”

What You'll Achieve.

Reliable provisioning storage systems; Benchmarking storage systems; Performance validation; Performance optimisation; Operational efficiency improvements; High-quality documentation; Effective knowledge transfer

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Debugging; Problem-solving

Eligibility Requirements

On-call rotation

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Bachelor's or Master's degree, 6-10 years experience, Hands-on bare-metal provisioning, Practical Linux systems engineering, Proficiency in Go, Bash, Rust, or Python, Excellent documentation skills

Nice to Have

Experience participating in on-call rotation

What You'll Do.

Design scalable control plane

Implement scalable control plane

Develop exabyte-scale object storage

Develop distributed file systems

Develop high-performance filesystems

Work with bare-metal provisioning tools

Apply operating system knowledge

Apply computer network knowledge

Apply software-defined storage knowledge

Apply high-performance application knowledge

Collaborate with operations teams

Monitor internal clusters

Analyse internal clusters

Optimise internal clusters

Monitor storage platforms

Analyse storage platforms

Optimise storage platforms

Document architecture designs

Document operational procedures

Document performance results

Collaborate with SRE engineers

Collaborate with site operations

Collaborate with networking teams

Ensure platform reliability

Ensure platform reproducibility

Ensure platform performance

Contribute to cluster validation

Contribute to CI/CD automation

Contribute to provisioning frameworks

Contribute to testing frameworks

Apply Kubernetes knowledge

Apply composable storage knowledge

Contribute to custom Kubernetes operators

Contribute to intelligent orchestration frameworks

Optimise AI workload performance

Commission large-scale GPU clusters

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

L2 SRE engineers; Site operations; Networking teams; Engineering teams; Operations teams

Communication Scope

Technical communication

Full Job Description

Role Summary Firmus is seeking a highly skilled and driven Senior Engineer to play a key role in designing, building, and operating software-defined infrastructure, including high-performance AI storage platforms. You will help evolve our Software Defined Infrastructure by building reliable, scalable solutions that power some of the world’s largest and most innovative AI workloads. You will be instrumental in ensuring the stability, performance, and continuous improvement of our mission-critical control plane and storage infrastructure. Key Responsibilities Design and implement a highly scalable, multi-tenant control plane that supports Firmus’ growing AI and infrastructure needs. Contribute to the development of exabyte-scale, S3-compatible object storage, distributed file systems, and high-performance filesystems. Work with bare-metal provisioning tools such as Base Command Manager, Warewulf, Ironic, MaaS, and similar platforms. Apply a deep understanding of operating systems, computer networks, software-defined storage, and high-performance applications. Work with technologies including RDMA, GPU Direct Storage, RoCE, InfiniBand, DPDK, Ceph, Weka, DAOS, and others. Collaborate with operations teams to monitor, analyse, and optimise internal clusters and storage platforms. Document architecture designs, operational procedures, and performance results. Collaborate with L2 SRE engineers, site operations, and networking teams to ensure platform reliability, reproducibility, and performance. Contribute to continuous improvement in cluster validation, CI/CD automation, and provisioning and testing frameworks. Apply knowledge of Kubernetes and composable storage clusters. Contribute to the development of custom Kubernetes operators and intelligent orchestration frameworks to optimise AI workload performance for large-scale GPU cluster commissioning. Skills & Experience Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. 6–10 years of expe

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