For over four decades, Cirrus Logic has been propelled by the top engineers in mixed-signal processing. Our rockstar team thrives on solving complex challenges with innovative end-user solutions for the world's top consumer brands. Cirrus Logic is also known for its award-winning culture, built on a foundation of inclusion and fairness, meaningful community engagement, and delivering enjoyable employee experiences at every turn. But we couldn’t do it without our extraordinary workforce – and that’s where you come in. Join our team and help us continue to make Cirrus Logic an exceptional place to grow your career!
Cirrus Logic is seeking a Director, Engineering IT Operations to lead the strategy, scalability, reliability, and day-to-day operations of the infrastructure that supports more than 1,000 semiconductor design engineers across global sites.
In this role, your will oversee the platforms and services that are essential to chip development, including high-performance compute environments, EDA tool infrastructure, job scheduling systems, revision control platforms, enterprise storage, automation, and engineering productivity tooling. The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with strong organizational leadership and a proven ability to deliver highly available, secure, and scalable infrastructure for mission-critical engineering workflows.
- Define and lead the infrastructure strategy supporting semiconductor design and engineering operations across global locations
- Ensure the availability, performance, scalability, and security of platforms used for chip development workflows
- Lead teams responsible for Linux infrastructure, compute farms, enterprise storage, revision control, automation, and observability
- Drive operational excellence across 24x7 production environments, including incident response, root cause analysis, change management, and disaster recovery planning
- Partner with silicon engineering, CAD/EDA teams, IT, security, program management, and executive leadership to align infrastructure priorities with business and product development goals
- Improve engineering productivity by advancing automation, self-service capabilities, and platform reliability
- Develop capacity plans and long-range infrastructure roadmaps to support continued growth in compute, storage, and engineering demand
- Establish and maintain service-level expectations, performance metrics, and continuous improvement practices across engineering IT operations
Extensive experience architecting, deploying, and supporting Linux platforms used for complex engineering applications
Demonstrated experience administering large-scale Linux environments
Strong expertise with RHEL, CentOS, or other Linux variants
Deep knowledge of:
NFS
LDAP and Active Directory integration
DNS and DHCP
SSH, PAM, and security hardening
Filesystem permissions, ACLs, groups, and identity management
Deep expertise in enterprise storage infrastructure, including:
NAS and SAN topologies
Management of tens or hundreds of petabytes of storage
Data backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies for large volumes of engineering data
Experience supporting:
5,000+ servers or equivalent compute scale
Multi-site or global engineering environments
High-availability infrastructure
Extensive experience operating and scaling distributed compute environments that support semiconductor design workloads
Strong working knowledge of IBM Spectrum LSF, including:
Job scheduling and prioritization
Queue architecture
Resource allocation policies
Fair-share scheduling
Compute farm optimization
Regression infrastructure
EDA workload tuning
Distributed job execution
License-aware scheduling
Experience with:
Millions of jobs per day preferred
CPU and memory optimization
Farm utilization analytics
Capacity forecasting
Deep operational knowledge of Perforce administration at enterprise scale, including:
Perforce database management and optimization
Backup and recovery strategies
Replication and edge servers
Large binary repository performance
Access controls and permissions
Additional experience preferred with:
Git, GitLab, Gerrit, and GitHub
CI/CD for hardware development flows
Artifact management systems
Application and AI tooling strategy and direction
Strong background in infrastructure automation, platform engineering, and observability
Experience with technologies such as:
Puppet
Python
Shell scripting
Ansible
Terraform
Kubernetes preferred
Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as:
Prometheus
Grafana
Splunk
ELK
Strong understanding of:
Demonstrable experience leading infrastructure or platform engineering teams
Experience managing senior technical teams, including:
Proven ability to build and scale organizations that support 1,000+ engineers in demanding technical environments
Strong ability to work effectively across:
Silicon engineering
CAD and EDA teams
IT and security
Program management
Executive leadership
Proven ability to translate:
A leadership style that balances strategic vision with operational rigor
Strong communication skills and the ability to influence across technical and executive audiences
A hands-on mindset with the judgment to prioritize reliability, scale, and engineer productivity in a fast-paced semiconductor environment
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Export control restrictions based upon applicable laws and regulations would prohibit candidates who are nationals of certain embargoed countries from working in this position without Cirrus Logic first obtaining an export license. Candidates for this role must be able to access technical data without a requirement for an export license. We are unable to sponsor or obtain export licenses for this role.
At Cirrus Logic, we believe that diversity drives innovation, and we are committed to encouraging an open and collaborative culture where different approaches, ideas, and points of view are respected and valued. We aim to promote a workplace where everyone can contribute irrespective of race, colour, national origin, religion or belief, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, pregnancy status, or disability.
