Principal Data Center Solutions Architect

Iron Bow Technologies is for people who believe trust is paramount , transformation is embraced , and the future is here , because "What we do matters !" We are a next generation solutions provider, delivering mission success across government, healthcare, and commercial industries. Iron Bow relies on our passionate people , long standing partnerships , and strategic thinking to solve your most critical challenges. Whether we team with clients, colleagues, or partners, we put each other first. It’s The Iron Bow Way. THE OPPORTUNITY Iron Bow is seeking a Principal Data Center Solutions Architect with deep experience in enterprise data centers, server platforms, virtualization, containers, hybrid cloud, and AI infrastructure to join the CTO office's Data Center and Cloud practice. This role provides technical leadership and pre-sales support for infrastructure modernization and AI readiness initiatives. The architect will design multivendor solutions across compute, virtualization, containers, workload migration, storage, networking, data protection, and physical data center infrastructure. Key technologies include VMware vSphere and VCF, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and the broader Red Hat ecosystem, Nutanix, Nvidia/AMD/Intel GPU-accelerated systems, and Iron Bow's strategic partner technologies and services. The role focuses on infrastructure for AI training, fine-tuning, inference, and data pipelines. HOW YOU'LL MAKE AN IMPACT • Research and evaluate enterprise data center, hybrid cloud, and AI infrastructure technologies that address customer mission and business requirements • Build relationships with strategic OEMs and partners across compute, virtualization, containers, storage, networking, data protection, and data center facilities • Lead customer discovery, assessments, architecture, and solution development for data center modernization, AI readiness, consolidation, platform transitions, and workload migrations • Architect multivendor server, virtualization, and container solutions based on VMware vSphere and VCF, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and OpenShift Container Platform, Nutanix Cloud Platform and AHV, and the supporting management and automation tools • Develop workload placement and migration plans that consider application dependencies, data gravity, performance, accelerator needs, compatibility, pilot groups, migration waves, cutover, rollback, training, and operational handoff • Design CPU- and GPU-based compute platforms using Cisco UCS and Intersight, Dell PowerEdge and OpenManage Enterprise, HPE ProLiant and OneView/iLO, and related NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, DPU, and interconnect technologies • Prepare hypervisor and container environments for accelerator-backed workloads, including GPU passthrough and partitioning, device plugins and operators, scheduling, resource isolation, driver and firmware lifecycle management, observability, and security • Integrate high-speed networking, storage, data protection, disaster recovery, observability, and security into architectures that support AI data ingestion, training, checkpointing, model repositories, and inference • Account for rack space, high-density power, UPS and PDU capacity, air or liquid cooling, cabling, resiliency, lifecycle, and site constraints in solution designs, bills of material, and implementation plans • Provide pre-sales support for data center, cloud, and AI infrastructure engagements, and serve as a technical point of contact for critical customer escalations and post-sales consultations • Support RFQs, RFPs, technical proposal volumes, LOEs, bills of material, capacity assumptions, and high-level and low-level design documentation • Develop and deliver technical proposals, whitepapers, presentations, demonstrations, workshop