Jobs at NorthMark Strategies

Design, deploy, operate, and optimize multi-petabyte high-performance storage systems supporting HPC research workloads. Implement infrastructure-as-code automation, troubleshoot storage workflows, advise researchers and software engineers on optimal storage usage, and collaborate with networking teams and vendors. The role requires expertise in clustered filesystems, scale-out storage architectures, file, block, and object storage technologies, plus Python or DevOps experience.

Designs and integrates large-scale HPC and AI infrastructure across compute, storage, networking, Kubernetes, automation, and data center teams. Leads architecture reviews, identifies dependencies and scalability risks, defines system-level specifications, evaluates resiliency and operational readiness, and resolves cross-team integration issues. The role influences platform standards, guides architectural tradeoffs, collaborates with vendors and engineering leads, and improves deployment consistency and lifecycle management.

Supports the External Affairs team through communications drafting, content management, event logistics, stakeholder coordination, scheduling, recordkeeping, and partnership tracking. The role prepares FAQs, talking points, presentations, reports, social media, newsletters, and website updates; coordinates community events and stakeholder engagements; routes inquiries; and maintains relationship records. It also represents the company at community events and assists with research and other administrative needs.

Designs and maintains Python-based automation frameworks for global data center network provisioning and lifecycle management. Builds APIs, infrastructure-as-code workflows, CI/CD integrations, observability tooling, and self-service networking capabilities using Ansible, Terraform, and Jinja2. Collaborates with network, platform, and security teams, contributes to architecture, supports production reliability, and participates in on-call incident response.

Designs, deploys, and optimizes high-performance networking architectures for HPC, AI/ML, and data-intensive workloads. Advises customers throughout solution lifecycles, leads proof-of-concepts and benchmarking, tunes network performance, and integrates compute, storage, orchestration, and security layers. The role develops observability frameworks, collaborates with engineering and vendors, influences product roadmaps, and presents architectures to technical and executive stakeholders.

Own the architecture and reference designs for HPC data center backbones, WAN connectivity, cloud interconnects, and customer peering. Define standards for routing, traffic engineering, failover, telemetry, security, observability, and multi-tenant isolation. Align network capacity and topology with business growth, workload patterns, and SLA requirements. The role requires advanced data center fabric, peering, hyperscale, cloud, and HPC networking expertise, along with strong documentation, stakeholder communication, leadership, and project management skills.

Leads a multidisciplinary HPC Solutions Architecture team delivering secure, scalable compute, storage, networking, Kubernetes, and systems-integration solutions. Oversees customer engagements from requirements discovery through proof of concept, deployment, optimization, and adoption. Builds reference architectures, guides technical reviews, supports HPC and AI/ML workloads, and partners with product and engineering teams on platform roadmaps. Requires extensive HPC and distributed-systems expertise, customer-facing communication, and technical leadership.

Designs, integrates, and optimizes high-performance storage architectures for HPC, AI/ML, and data-intensive workloads. Responsibilities include requirements discovery, architecture design, benchmarking, proof-of-concept delivery, deployment, workflow optimization, automation, and customer advising. The role works across compute, networking, orchestration, engineering, product, operations, and storage vendors while developing scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient solutions.

Design, deploy, scale, and optimize large multi-vendor Ethernet and InfiniBand HPC networks across on-premises and cloud environments. Develop performance and observability frameworks, improve high-throughput and low-latency infrastructure, evaluate emerging technologies, collaborate with vendors, and provide technical leadership for scalable, secure network solutions.

Owns operational governance and performance oversight for an outsourced natural-gas power plant supporting mission-critical HPC infrastructure. Responsibilities include O&M provider management, safety and risk leadership, HAZID/HAZOP, incident investigations, regulatory compliance, reliability and availability monitoring, outage planning, and coordination with electrical distribution, UPS, BESS, grid interconnection, black-start, island-mode, and emergency operations.

Coordinates day-to-day facilities operations, contractors, maintenance issues, inspections, helpdesk requests, inventory, compliance activities, office moves, and workplace projects. Supports office fit-outs, refurbishments, layout changes, project tracking, quality checks, and documentation while liaising with vendors, landlords, project managers, and employees. The role requires occasional out-of-hours support and up to 25% travel.

Own the full lifecycle of a large-scale HPC and AI compute fleet, including bare-metal provisioning, firmware and BIOS management, hardware troubleshooting, performance tuning, capacity planning, security hardening, and infrastructure automation. Validate next-generation NVIDIA platforms, collaborate with software, networking, and vendor teams, resolve complex component issues, and mentor junior engineers.

Leads vulnerability management and exploit research across HPC and cloud infrastructure. Builds and manages technical teams, directs vulnerability analysis and exploit reverse engineering, develops exploitability-weighted risk models, prioritizes remediation, partners with infrastructure and engineering teams, oversees tooling and metrics, and briefs security leadership on exposure and program maturity.

Design, implement, and maintain network security architecture for hyperscale HPC and cloud environments. Lead detection and response for network threats, integrate controls across on-prem and cloud, support segmentation and Zero Trust, evaluate security tech, mentor junior engineers, and document policies and standards.

Lead a continuous, production-focused red team to emulate named threat actors against HPC, cloud, and Kubernetes environments. Validate detection and response, run adversary emulation campaigns, manage vendor engagements, build offensive tooling, drive threat-led design reviews, own remediation SLAs, and report evidence-backed findings to the CISO and board.

Operate and administer Nozomi Networks sensors and Vantage/Arc for OT asset visibility and threat detection. Triage and investigate OT alerts, perform network traffic analysis, maintain asset inventories and topology maps, develop detection rules and dashboards, support incident response, produce security reports, onboard OT assets, contribute to policies/playbooks, and mentor junior analysts.

Lead and mentor engineers to design, implement, and optimize hyperscale network security. Manage firewalls, proxies, segmentation, incident escalation, vulnerability assessments, and remediation. Build automation playbooks and integrate tools (Python, Terraform, vendor APIs) for lifecycle management. Coordinate with DevOps, infrastructure, and application teams to embed Zero Trust and secure cloud networking practices.

Design, implement, and maintain scalable network security controls (firewalls, IDS/IPS, VPNs) across on-prem and cloud. Drive segmentation, security standards, monitoring/SIEM investigations, architecture reviews, automation, and mentor junior engineers.

Lead design and operation of platform vulnerability management and real-time threat detection across bare-metal, containers, and cloud. Integrate security into CI/CD and IaC, run triage/prioritization, automate posture assessment, conduct platform security assessments, and collaborate with engineering to drive remediation and hardening.

Serve as on-shift senior authority for a critical-infrastructure watch floor, commanding security and operations staff, monitoring physical security and life-safety systems, executing incident command under ICS/NIMS, maintaining logs and handovers, coordinating external responders, enforcing access controls and EHS/HAZMAT procedures, delivering training/drills, and supporting TDY executive protection as needed.