IT, Director

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of fast-paced Engineering Information Technology Team. It is a senior level critical leadership role in Platform Support Group which needs both technical as well as management skills. In this critical role, you will be managing customer expectations, serving as communication channel between various business group resource managers and the IT organization. In addition to this, you will be part of Platform Support Group managing complex EDA engineering environment consisting of BareMetal, Openstack and various other virtualized configurations running various Linux flavors, Capacity planning, forecasting and acquisition of servers, Planning and executing regular patching and upgrades of environment, Evaluate, improve and implement new processes as well as Technologies to increase reliability, productivity and user experience.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of infrastructure/Linux engineers, including task planning and execution.
• Drive technical projects and provide leadership in an innovative and fast-paced environment.
• Responsible for health and performance of large-scale, high-performance Engineering Linux environments which includes BareMetal / Openstack environment globally. Oversee implementation and installation of operating systems upgrades, security patches and enhancements. Lead team in providing engineering technical support and performance issues with compute clusters and storage.
• Actively engage with key stakeholders from user communities for technical issues, future enhancements as well as introduction of new technologies/workflows to improve business productivity
• Develop and extend frameworks to scale the technology across various hardware and software configurations
• Build tools and automation pipelines to ensure constant monitoring of the HPC clusters
• Work across teams to facilitate high performance and reliability of Engineering compute infrastructure

Expectations

• 8-10 years of experience of working in HPC/EDA environment with management experience
• Preferred MS or BS in Computer Science
• Good communication, including writing, speaking and active listening
• Strong leadership and conflict management skills
• Foster strong internal and external network and work across multiple teams to achieve business objectives
• Customer service and interpersonal skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Developing rapport with different teams across different culture in the role of international manager
• Empathy and patience to understand teams and nurture team building
• Knowledge and experience on Metal as a service platform like MAAS, Foreman, Cobbler, Satellite/Spacewalk etc.
• Deployment and maintenance of large scale Openstack / Private Cloud environment
• Knowledge of any container platforms like Kubernetes/ Openshift/Tanzu/RKE/MKE etc.
• Knowledge of Ansible/Terraform for IaaS and configuration management
• Experience in provisioning and deployment of workload on public like AWS/Azure/GCP
• Experience in managing large scale Linux platform like RedHat/CentOS/Ubuntu/SLES
• Basic Knowledge of Directory Services like LDAP/NIS/AD
• Networking fundamentals