Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Engineer

Job Title

Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Engineer Build, Certification & Infrastructure

Location : Pune, India

Job Type : Full-Time

Experience Level : 6–8 years

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled engineer who can take end-to-end ownership across build management, hardware certification, and infrastructure engineering for our next-generation Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) platform.

This role is a blend of embedded systems development, cloud-native integrations, build/release ownership, and hardware-software validation. The ideal candidate is hands-on across compute, storage, networking, and hardware acceleration, while also ensuring that builds are reliable, certified, and enterprise ready.

Key Responsibilities

1. Build & Release Management

• Maintain, monitor, and improve CI/CD pipelines for HCI software components.
• Troubleshoot and resolve build failures, ensuring high availability and reliability.
• Perform vulnerability scans and integrate security checks into the build process.
• Collaborate with developers to fix build issues and maintain compliance with secure coding practices.

2. HCI Hardware Certification & Validation

• Validate Diamanti’s HCI platform across server, storage, and network hardware vendors.
• Perform interoperability, firmware compatibility, and compliance testing.
• Certify performance and reliability across OEM vendor programs (Dell, HPE, Cisco, etc.).
• Run benchmarking, regression, chaos, and resiliency tests for enterprise-grade workloads.

3. Infrastructure & Platform Engineering

• Enhance and maintain the Diamanti HCI stack (compute, storage, networking).
• Develop and optimize high-performance I/O paths, storage acceleration, and networking offloads.
• Integrate custom hardware with Kubernetes (via CRDs, CSI/CNI drivers, and Operators).
• Work on scalability and performance tuning under production-like workloads.
• Leverage Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi) for consistent

deployment.

4. Collaboration & Support

• Partner with Product Management to define requirements and customer use cases.
• Support QA and Support teams in troubleshooting and triaging escalations.
• Participate in PoC deployments and customer-facing solution validation.
• Collaborate with hardware vendors and certification bodies to align on compliance requirements.

5. Documentation & Quality Code

• Write clear documentation for builds, certification processes, and infrastructure deployment.
• Contribute to technical design discussions, reviews, and architecture improvements.
• Ensure high-quality code with unit, integration, and automation test coverage.

Requirements

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field.
• 6+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, embedded systems, or hardware certification.

Technical Expertise

• Programming: C, C++, Go, Shell scripting.
• Linux Systems: Kernel internals, performance tuning, driver development.
• Kubernetes: CSI/CNI driver development, Operators, Helm, container runtimes.
• Storage: NVMe, NVMe-oF, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, distributed storage systems.
• Networking: VLANs, SDN, SR-IOV, DPDK, NIC offloads.
• Build/DevOps: Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Ansible, Terraform, Pulumi.
• Hardware Integration: PCIe devices, BIOS/UEFI, firmware upgrades, BMC/iLO/iDRAC.
• Tools: GDB, logic analyzers, JTAG, security scanning (Snyk, Trivy, SonarQube).

Additonal Desired Skills

• Familiarity with service mesh (Istio, Linkerd) and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• Knowledge of compliance frameworks (FIPS, FedRAMP, PCI-DSS) and secure Kubernetes operations (OPA/Gatekeeper).
• Experience with chaos testing and infrastructure validation automation frameworks.
• Hands-on with multi-cluster management platforms (Spektra, Rancher, Anthos, OpenShift).
• Strong communication and mentoring skills to guide cross-functional teams.

Preferred Skills

• Certifications: CKA, CKAD.
• Open-source contributions in Kubernetes, Linux kernel, or storage.
• Familiarity with hardware debugging tools and test frameworks.

What Makes This Role Exciting

• Opportunity to own end-to-end responsibility across builds, infrastructure, and hardware certification.
• Work at the intersection of embedded systems and cloud-native orchestration.
• Shape enterprise-grade HCI for mission-critical workloads.
• Collaborate with experts in systems programming, Kubernetes, and hardware-software integration.