Director, Engineering IT Operations

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

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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.

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