Manager, Solution Architect
About the Role
Rafay seeks a Principal Solutions Architect to enable enterprise customers/Neo clouds in deploying, operating, and scaling AI/ML workloads on our GPU Platform-as-a-Service offering. This is a hybrid technical leadership and people-management role: alongside hands-on, customer-facing architecture work, this person will build, lead, and grow a team of Solutions Architects, collaborating with platform engineering, MLOps, data science, and infrastructure teams to architect production-ready AI infrastructure solutions built on Kubernetes and GPU-accelerated environments.
Key Responsibilities
Team Leadership & People Management
• Recruit, hire, and onboard Solutions Architects as the team scales
• Directly manage a team of Solutions Architects, including workload allocation, coaching, and day-to-day support
• Set individual and team goals; conduct regular 1:1s and performance reviews
• Own career development planning for direct reports, including skills growth, promotion readiness, and succession planning
• Foster an inclusive,
high-performing team culture aligned with Rafay's values
• Manage team capacity, prioritization, and staffing against customer and project demand
• Partner with sales, engineering, and executive leadership on hiring plans and team structure
• Mentor and upskill both direct reports and junior team members across the broader organization
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Technical & Customer-Facing Responsibilities
• Design comprehensive AI/ML platform architectures covering inference, training, and data pipelines
• Develop reference architectures for GPU cluster deployment and LLM serving infrastructure
• Evaluate inference serving frameworks including vLLM, TGI, and Triton
• Advise on GPU fabric topology options for distributed training scenarios
• Design observability strategies using DCGM, OpenTelemetry, and eBPF
• Translate infrastructure requirements into actionable platform designs
• Deliver technical presentations, workshops,
📌 Manager, Solution Architect (India)
🏢 Rafay
📍 India