Job detail for 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

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. Find Jobs in United Kingdom on Arbeitnow [Skills: IT]