Director, Engineering IT Operations

Overview

In this role you lead the strategy and day-to-day operations of global engineering IT infrastructure that supports 1,000+ semiconductor designers. You drive reliable, secure, scalable platforms for chip development, collaborating with silicon CAD/EDA teams and IT leadership. You’ll push automation and self-service to boost engineering productivity in a 24×7, high-impact environment. This position offers a chance to shape critical infrastructure that underpins tapeouts and cutting-edge engineering workflows.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the infrastructure strategy for semiconductor design across global sites
• Ensure availability, performance, scalability, and security of chip development platforms
• Manage Linux infrastructure, compute farms, enterprise storage, revision control, automation, and observability teams
• Oversee 24×7 production operations including incident response, root cause analysis, change management, and disaster recovery
• Align infrastructure priorities with business and product goals through cross-functional partnership
• Advance automation and self-service to improve engineering productivity and platform reliability
• Develop capacity plans and long-range roadmaps to support growth in compute and storage
• Establish service-level expectations and continuous improvement practices across engineering IT operations

Key requirements

• Extensive Linux infrastructure architecture, deployment, and support experience for complex engineering apps
• Experience administering large-scale Linux environments (RHEL/CentOS)
• Deep knowledge of NFS, LDAP/AD, DNS/DHCP, SSH, PAM, and security hardening
• Enterprise storage expertise including NAS/SAN and large-scale data management
• Experience supporting 5,000+ servers and multi-site global environments
• HPC/compute farm administration and IBM Spectrum LSF experience (job scheduling, queueing, resource allocation)
• Understanding of RTL-to-GDSII flows, EDA tool environments (Cadence, Synopsys, Mentor) and tapeout reliability
• Perforce administration at enterprise scale (databases, backups, replication, access controls)
• Experience with Git family tools (Git, GitLab, Gerrit, GitHub) and CI/CD for hardware flows
• Automation and IaC tooling (Puppet, Python, Shell, Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes)
• Observability and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK)
• Security, compliance, change management, and disaster recovery experience
• Strong leadership of senior technical teams (Linux admins, HPC/storage engineers, DevOps)
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration and communication skills

• Strong leadership of senior technical teams
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Strategic thinking with hands-on, pragmatic mindset
• Linux (RHEL/CentOS), NFS, LDAP/AD, DNS/DHCP, SSH, PAM
• Enterprise storage (NAS/SAN), data backup and DR
• Perforce at enterprise scale

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