AI/HPC Consultant

Hays plc
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
4 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Temporary contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English

Job location

Remote
Charing Cross, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence
Border Gateway Protocol
Data Centers
Ethernet
InfiniBand
Network Architecture
Routing
Overlay Transport Virtualization
AI Infrastructure
Backend
Juniper
Low Latency
Cisco networks

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Computacenter's consultancy practice, helping enterprise customers design and deliver cutting-edge NVIDIA-based AI and HPC infrastructure solutions. This role focuses on high-performance networking, AI cluster architecture, InfiniBand, Spectrum-X, RoCEv2, and physical infrastructure design across GPU-accelerated environments. Working closely with customers, vendors and internal stakeholders, you will provide technical leadership across architecture, design assurance and infrastructure optimisation., * Design High-Level and Low-Level Designs (HLDs/LLDs) for NVIDIA AI/HPC infrastructure, including GB300, B300, DGX, HGX and NVL72 environments.

  • Design and validate InfiniBand backend fabrics, Spectrum-X front-end networks and Spectrum-X Ethernet backends.
  • Provide technical expertise across RoCEv2, InfiniBand, VXLAN EVPN, BGP, leaf-spine architectures and high-performance networking.
  • Create, review and optimise Bills of Material (BoMs) covering switches, optics, fibre assemblies, DAC/ACC/AEC cabling, adapters, DPUs and licensing.
  • Run customer discovery workshops, requirements gathering sessions, architecture governance reviews and technical design discussions.
  • Produce diagrams, port maps, cable matrices, design documentation and implementation guidance.
  • Act as a technical lead, collaborating with customers, vendors, consultants, pre-sales teams and delivery stakeholders.

Requirements

  • Strong Network Architecture or Data Centre Networking background with experience in HPC, AI Infrastructure or low-latency network fabrics.

  • Hands-on experience with InfiniBand, RoCEv2, Spectrum-X Ethernet, congestion management and lossless Ethernet technologies.

  • Strong understanding of VXLAN EVPN, BGP, leaf-spine design, routing, resiliency and modern data centre networking principles.

  • Practical knowledge of optical and copper connectivity including SMF/MMF, MPO/MTP, DAC, AEC/ACC, QSFP, QSFP-DD, OSFP and related technologies.

  • Experience interpreting NVIDIA reference architectures and translating them into customer-ready designs and commercially accurate Bills of Material. *Strong stakeholder engagement, consultancy and technical documentation skills. Additional Information:

  • Experience with NVIDIA DGX, HGX, GB300, B300, NVL72, ConnectX and BlueField/SuperNIC technologies is highly desirable.

  • Knowledge of physical infrastructure design including rack layouts, switch placement, cabling strategy, cooling and power considerations is preferred.

  • Exposure to liquid cooling, storage integration, management fabrics and out-of-band networking is beneficial.

  • Relevant certifications such as Cisco CCNP/CCIE, NVIDIA Networking, Arista, Juniper, HPE or equivalent are desirable.

  • Experience within Consultancy, Professional Services, Technical Architecture or Pre-Sales environments would be advantageous.

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