IT Staff Systems Engineer (DevOps)

At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.

Cadence is seeking a DevOps Support Engineer to join our team to support, manage, and improve the DevOps environment. The candidate should have hands-on experience with cloud solutions and proven expertise in working directly with R&D software development teams to develop solutions to optimize their working environment collaboratively.

Cadence has a 30-year history of applying leading-edge optimization and analysis algorithms to highly complex problems in semiconductor and electronic design, verification, and analysis. We are looking for a recent graduate software engineer to join our team of collaborative EDA professionals to deliver the best-in-class next-generation software for physical IC applications. The software engineer will work on complex problems where data analysis requires an evaluation of intangible variance factors to develop leading-edge software for the physical design and verification of products at advanced nodes.

Each day with Cadence offers exciting opportunities to create a better, more connected world. We are leading the charge to solve technology’s toughest challenges. Working at Cadence means working alongside the industry’s brightest people and innovating for the biggest, most innovative companies around the globe.

Role: DevOps Support Engineer

Location: San Jose, CA (onsite position)

Responsibilities

  • Supporting multiple geological locations to serve user communities across North America, Europe, and Asia sites.

  • Focusing on improving R&D productivity and committing to customer success.

  • Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated builds and deployments

  • Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools

  • Troubleshoot and resolve issues across development, testing, and production environments

  • Operating, managing, and enhancing the internal compute farm and associated cloud (Azure).

  • Maintaining, enhancing, monitoring, reporting, and improving its efficiency.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of technical experience architecting, managing, and improving a DevOps environment running both Windows and Linux.

  • 3+ years working in a global group, coordinating support, strategies, projects, and operations across multiple geographies in a team-oriented approach

  • Solid understanding and proven operational experience with DevSecOps and best practices

  • Experience building and managing CI/CD pipeline in cloud (Azure preferred)

  • Strong Linux administration skills and problem-solving skills

  • Experience working directly with R&D software development teams to collaboratively develop solutions to optimize their working environment

  • Experience in HPC using LSF or Slurm is preferred.

  • Strong process focus shown through documentation, change management, incident management and problem-resolution activities

Education: BS / MS in Computer Science or related field

The hourly range for California is $57.21 to $106.25 per hour. You may also be eligible to receive incentive compensation: bonus, equity, and benefits. Please note that the hourly range is a guideline and compensation may vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies and work location. Our benefits programs include: paid vacation and paid holidays, 401(k) plan with employer match, employee stock purchase plan, a variety of medical, dental and vision plan options, and more.

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