Director, engineering it operations Work, Jobs in Edinburgh, Scotland (with Salaries)

Director, Engineering IT Operations
Cirrus Logic —Edinburgh
- Full-time
- Scripting
- IT
- Linux
Software Engineering Director
DotYet Digital Ventures —Edinburgh
- £8,500 - £13,000 a month
- Full-time
- Computer Science
- Engineering
- Bachelor's degree
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
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Deputy Director for Infrastructure and Networks
Scottish Government —Edinburgh
- £97,819 a year
- Full-time
- Presentation skills
- Agile
- IT
8d
Associate Director, ER&I (Energy, Resourcing and Industrials incl. Construction), Operations Industry & Domain Solutions, Engineering AI & Data, Technology & Transformation
Deloitte —Edinburgh
- Hybrid work
- Management
- Master's degree
- Business development
Director of Learning Operations
Elisa Learning Services Ltd —Edinburgh
- £64,000 - £94,000 a year
- Full-time
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Business
- Health & wellbeing programme
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2d
Head of Prism Operations
Clearwater Analytics, LLC —Edinburgh
- £100,000 - £140,000 a year
- Management
- Computer Science
- Sales
- Annual leave
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1d
Project Engineering Lead
Leonardo UK Ltd —Edinburgh
- £60,000 - £84,995 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- System design
- Travel
- Leadership
- Flexible schedule
- Referral programme
13d
Head of Facilities
School Talent —Edinburgh
- £50,000 - £55,000 a year
- Full-time
- School
- Annual leave
- Employee assistance programme
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14d
Head of Hardware
Ember —Edinburgh
- £80,000 - £120,000 a year
- Full-time
- Bachelor's degree
- Relocation assistance
- Flexible schedule
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Deputy Director for Corporate Applications and Support Services
Scottish Government —Edinburgh
- £97,819 a year
- Full-time
- Presentation skills
- Agile
- IT
8d
Associate Director, Lead AI Architect, Security & Justice, Engineering, AI & Data, Technology & Transformation
Deloitte —Edinburgh
- Hybrid work
- Azure
- Doctoral degree
- Computer Science
Operations Engineering Manager
Optos —Dunfermline
- Master's degree
- Bachelor's degree
- Leadership
Account Director
Equans —Edinburgh
- Full-time
- Leadership
- Annual leave
- Employee assistance programme
12d
Director, Operations Change - Client Projects
Citi —Edinburgh
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Leadership
- Communication skills
- Employee assistance programme
- Employee discount
AI Engineering Director, LATC
Lenovo —Edinburgh
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Doctoral degree
- Computer Science
- Master's degree
- Life insurance
Director, Platform Engineering Strategy & Ops
Lenovo —Edinburgh
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- AI
- Communication skills
- Life insurance
14d
Laboratory Services Director
LiveDa Laboratory Services Ltd —Edinburgh
- £66,000 - £86,000 a year
- Full-time
- Laboratory experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Quality control
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Language training provided
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6d
Technical Director – Coastal Engineering
Ramboll —Edinburgh
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Management
- Engineering
- Business development
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Head of Creative
Schuh —Livingston
- Full-time
- Employee assistance programme
- Employee discount
Head of Operations
Had Fab —Tranent
- ERP systems
- Leadership

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Director, Engineering IT Operations

Cirrus Logic -
Edinburgh

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Job details

Full-time

Qualifications

NFS
Kubernetes
Ansible
Configuration management
Git
DHCP
Database management
Data management
Perforce
Terraform
Splunk
LDAP
Scripting
DNS
GitHub
SAN
IT
CentOS
Puppet
SSH
Linux
Root cause analysis
Leadership
GitLab
Communication skills
Python
Shell Scripting
Active Directory

Full job description

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.

Key responsibilities

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

Who you are

Linux Infrastructure

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

HPC and Compute Farm Administration

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

Semiconductor and EDA Environment Knowledge

Strong understanding of semiconductor engineering workflows and their infrastructure dependencies
Familiarity with:
- RTL-to-GDSII flows
- Verification regressions
- Simulation farms
- Synthesis and place-and-route infrastructure
- EDA license management
- Cadence, Synopsys, and Mentor environments
- Tapeout-critical infrastructure reliability
Clear understanding of:
- The impact of downtime on tapeout schedules
- The importance of deterministic engineering environments
- Reproducibility requirements
- Common performance bottlenecks in EDA workflows

Revision Control and Data Management

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

Automation and Infrastructure Engineering

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:
- Infrastructure as Code
- Automated provisioning
- Configuration management
- Self-service engineering platforms

Leadership Qualifications

Organizational Leadership

Demonstrable experience leading infrastructure or platform engineering teams
Experience managing senior technical teams, including:
- Senior Linux administrators
- HPC engineers
- Storage engineers
- DevOps or platform teams
Proven ability to build and scale organizations that support 1,000+ engineers in demanding technical environments

Operational Excellence

Demonstrated success leading:
- 24x7 production operations
- Incident management and escalation processes
- Root cause analysis and corrective action planning
- Change management programs
- SLA and SLO ownership
- Disaster recovery planning
- Security and compliance initiatives

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Strong ability to work effectively across:
- Silicon engineering
- CAD and EDA teams
- IT and security
- Program management
- Executive leadership
Proven ability to translate:
- Engineering pain points into infrastructure strategy
- Business priorities into operational execution
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

#LI-Hybrid #LI-HD1

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.

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