Senior Devops Engineer, Aiops

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Santa Clara, CA

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to operate an AI Data Center AIOps platform, focusing on reliability, performance, and automation for GPU fleets. The role involves monitoring, incident response, Kubernetes deployments, and building runbooks/SOPs. Requires experience in operating production distributed systems, ownership of observability platforms, and strong Kubernetes and automation skills.

What you'd actually do

  1. Continuously monitor platform health via dashboards/logs/metrics, automate recurring checks, and keep reliability + resource efficiency on track.
  2. Own Kubernetes deployments end-to-end (runbooks, canary checks, post-deploy validation), and lead rollbacks/remediations when needed.
  3. Lead first-level incident triage: collect diagnostics, identify likely root causes, and hand off clear, actionable findings to engineering.
  4. Build and maintain runbooks/SOPs/checklists, pushing continuous improvement through automation.
  5. Manage deployment infrastructure and packaging (Helm + Terraform/IaC) to keep environments scalable, consistent, and reproducible.

Skills

Required

  • BS/MS in CS/CE (or equivalent experience)
  • 5+ years operating production distributed systems as SRE/DevOps/Platform Ops
  • Ownership of reliability for an observability/AIOps platform
  • SLOs/SLIs
  • On-call experience
  • Incident response
  • Kubernetes
  • Containers
  • Scripting (Python/Bash)
  • CI/CD
  • Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform + Helm)
  • Runbooks/documentation

Nice to have

  • Linux fundamentals
  • Networking fundamentals
  • Distributed systems instincts
  • Observability platforms at scale
  • Safe automation
  • Canary releases
  • Automated rollback criteria
  • Monitoring for the monitoring
  • Replay/backfill pipelines with correctness checks
  • Distributed/streaming systems operations (Kafka/Pulsar, Flink/Spark, ClickHouse/Elastic/TSDBs, object storage)
  • Backpressure
  • Hotspots
  • Failure domains
  • Programming experience building automation tools or services (Python)
  • Running large-scale production deployments
  • Multiple Kubernetes environments or clusters
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana

What the JD emphasized

  • operating production distributed systems as SRE/DevOps/Platform Ops
  • Proven ownership of reliability for an observability/AIOps platform: SLOs/SLIs, on-call, addressing incidents, and follow-up evaluations that drive measurable improvements.
  • Deep Kubernetes + containers experience (deploying, debugging, scaling) for telemetry-heavy microservices—ingestion, processing, storage, APIs, and UI.
  • Automation-first approach: solid scripting (Python/Bash), CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform + Helm) to deliver safe rollouts (canaries/rollbacks), reproducible environments, and minimal toil.
  • Clear communicator who writes excellent runbooks/docs and can translate ambiguous requirements into concrete operational practices and dependable customer-facing reliability.