Senior Principal Chief Architect -Enterprise Platform/Distributed AI Infrastructure & Kubernetes/PyTorch
Red Hat20 days ago
Singapore, SingaporeStaff+
Responsibilities
- Direct the APAC Forward Deployed Engineering squad, including technical strategy, engagement qualification, resource allocation, and operational direction.
- Architect large-scale hybrid-cloud AI deployments with high availability, performance, recovery, security, and compliance requirements.
- Lead integration of identity and access management, legacy data pipelines, network isolation, air-gapped frameworks, and production platform components.
- Bridge regional customer and engineering needs with global product and ecosystem engineering hubs.
- Drive upstream contributions, open-source foundation participation, technical standardization, and APAC developer communities.
- Advise C-level executives and government agencies on sovereign AI, data residency, regulatory compliance, and operational resilience.
- Lead platform maturity assessments, adoption roadmaps, software quality practices, release processes, benchmarking, and SDLC evolution.
- Coach senior technical staff, principal engineers, and regional engineering talent.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in senior technology or architectural leadership roles, including at least 5 years serving financial services, government, or other highly regulated sectors.
- 5+ years of active participation, leadership, or working-group management within major open-source foundations.
- Extensive experience architecting and managing Kubernetes-based application platforms across on-premises, public-cloud, and edge environments.
- Deep proficiency in Go, C/C++, or Python and a proven record as an active contributor or maintainer in major open-source communities.
- Expert knowledge of distributed inference, MLOps/LLMOps pipelines, model serving architectures, and LLM orchestrators such as LangChain and LlamaIndex.
- Practical experience with cloud-native operator patterns, policy engines, and data pipeline frameworks such as Docling.
- Familiarity with CUDA, ROCm, driver configurations, and GPU/NPU operator management.
- Proven ability to establish and scale technical communities across multiple APAC markets, influence C-level stakeholders on major investments, and lead cross-functional squads without direct authority.
- Strong professional integrity and awareness of sensitive customer data handling and local compliance requirements.
Benefits
- Flexible work environments ranging from in-office and office-flex to fully remote depending on role requirements.
- Inclusive, open-source-oriented workplace with equal opportunity and reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.
About Red Hat
Red Hat builds enterprise open-source software, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, OpenShift for Kubernetes, and Ansible automation, sold via subscriptions with support, training, and consulting. It serves large enterprises and public-sector organizations running hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure and modern application platforms. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, Red Hat operates as an independent subsidiary of IBM.