Infrastructure Architect with HashiCorp & Nomad OSS

Architectural Design: Build and maintain production-grade Nomad OSS clusters across hybrid-cloud and edge environments.

Cluster Classification: Design a taxonomy for cluster types (e.g., Batch-heavy, Service-mesh integrated, Edge-compute) using Nomad Namespaces, Node Attributes, and Meta-stanzas to ensure workloads land on the right infrastructure.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Lead the automation of cluster provisioning using Terraform and Packer, ensuring clusters are "nomadic" and can be recreated in minutes.

Testing & Validation: Establish "Chaos Engineering" and performance benchmarking suites for Nomad. You will guide the team in testing leader election, client heartbeats, and bin-packing efficiency.

Security & Governance: Implement zero-trust security using HashiCorp Vault for secret injection and Consul for secure service discovery.

Team Leadership: Act as the primary SME, conducting code reviews and guiding DevOps engineers on Nomad-specific patterns like Job Lifecycle management and Task Driver selection.

Orchestration: Expert-level knowledge of Nomad OSS (Job stanzas, scheduling algorithms, and federation).

Classification Tools: Deep understanding of how to use Node Metadata and Constraints to classify hardware for specific workloads (GPU vs. CPU, High-IOPS vs. Standard).

HashiCorp Stack: Proven experience integrating Nomad with Consul (service discovery/mesh) and Vault (dynamic secrets).

Networking: Strong grasp of gossip protocols (Serf), Raft consensus, and CNI (Container Network Interface).

Testing Frameworks: Experience with automated testing for infrastructure (e.g., Terratest or Python-based cluster validation scripts).

Design for Failure: You believe that everything fails eventually and architect clusters to be resilient to regional outages.

Classified Resource Management: Ability to manage "Multi-tenant" environments where different teams or classifications of data share the same physical cluster safely.

Education: A passion for teaching; you don't just build the cluster, you enable the whole team to master the CLI and UI.