Principal Systems Engineer - IaaS/Hardware
MARA Tech, Inc. develops proprietary firmware and fleet-management tools for digital asset mining devices. Its MARAFW and MARATools products help miners optimize hashrate, efficiency, power management, thermal protection, firmware deployment, and ASIC fleet operations.
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About MARA Tech, Inc.
MARA Tech, Inc. develops and licenses custom firmware for compatible Bitcoin mining devices, including Bitmain Antminer S19, S21, and T21 series models. MARAFW provides auto-tuning, overclocking and underclocking, thermal protection, backup-pool configuration, hardware-health insights, detailed logs, and remote or SD-card deployment. MARATools enables Windows-based fleet management, including batch firmware installation, scanning, configuration, sorting, and control of multiple ASIC miners. The company also offers the MARA UCB 2100 replacement control board, preloaded with MARAFW, for institutional and enterprise mining operators.
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About the Role
Lead the design, standardization, and modernization of MARA’s global IaaS platforms across hybrid and cloud-native environments. Define infrastructure architecture, automation, networking, storage, observability, GitOps, CI/CD, security, and platform enablement practices.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience designing and operating large-scale infrastructure across on-premises and cloud environments.
- Expertise in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Pulumi, and Ansible, including reusable modules and providers.
- Deep understanding of hybrid and private cloud platforms including OpenShift, Juju, MAAS, OpenStack, VMware, and Proxmox.
- Strong storage and networking experience with Ceph, TrueNAS, S3, NFS, VLAN, VXLAN, and SDN.
- Experience building GitOps deployment pipelines and maintaining production-grade Kubernetes environments.
- Familiarity with MLflow, Airflow, Databricks, or Spark infrastructure integration.
- Strong proficiency in Python, Go, and Bash.
- Excellent cross-functional leadership, communication, and mentorship skills.
- Preferred: experience with HPC, ML infrastructure, sovereign or regulated environments, energy-aware computing, modular data centers, or ESG-driven infrastructure design.
Responsibilities
- Architect and evolve the IaaS platform across hybrid environments.
- Design and maintain infrastructure automation frameworks using Terraform, Pulumi, and Ansible.
- Develop reusable infrastructure providers, modules, and standards.
- Define engineering standards for provisioning, networking, and observability.
- Evaluate and integrate OpenShift, Kubernetes, MAAS, Ceph, and related platforms.
- Drive multi-tenant PaaS initiatives and private cloud modernization.
- Align IaaS architecture with data, ML, and platform workloads.
- Establish GitOps and CI/CD frameworks for infrastructure delivery.
- Lead capacity planning, HA/DR strategy, monitoring, and alerting design.
- Embed zero-trust OIDC, SAML, IAM, and secret-management practices.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to documentation, workshops, and technical enablement.
