Principal, HPC DevOps Engineer

Company Description

At Western Digital, our vision is to power global innovation and push the boundaries of technology to make what you thought was once impossible, possible.

At our core, Western Digital is a company of problem solvers. People achieve extraordinary things given the right technology. For decades, we’ve been doing just that. Our technology helped people put a man on the moon.

We are a key partner to some of the largest and highest growth organizations in the world. From energizing the most competitive gaming platforms, to enabling systems to make cities safer and cars smarter and more connected, to powering the data centers behind many of the world’s biggest companies and public cloud, Western Digital is fueling a brighter, smarter future.

Binge-watch any shows, use social media or shop online lately? You’ll find Western Digital supporting the storage infrastructure behind many of these platforms. And, that flash memory card that captures and preserves your most precious moments? That’s us, too.

We offer an expansive portfolio of technologies, storage devices and platforms for business and consumers alike. Our data-centric solutions are comprised of the Western Digital®, G-Technology™, SanDisk® and WD® brands.

Today’s exceptional challenges require your unique skills. It’s You & Western Digital. Together, we’re the next BIG thing in data.

Job Description

Western Digital’s High Performance Computing team is currently seeking a strong Principal, HPC DevOps Engineer to provide technical leadership and strategy to develop scalable HPC infrastructure and services. This team has the mission to help deliver well-architected, innovative cloud solutions that are secure, high-performing, resilient and efficient. In this role, you will utilize your strategic, technical, and operational experience to drive HPC cloud strategy, governance and architecture. You will take an active role in the evaluation, operations, development, automation, and release of new and existing cloud-related solutions for the ASIC and Flash development teams.

We are looking for a deep technical leader who can do hands-on development and architectural decision-making to set the right level of priorities for our teams to deliver substantial business value to WD. Specifically, we are looking for a hands-on architect, who is passionate about building scalable, performant, well designed compute and data platforms and core frameworks that enable ASIC development groups to easily run in the cloud without the need to know the underlying cloud infrastructure.

We need a leader who is dynamic, curious, and a 'learn it all' that can collaborate across multiple domains (development, support, SRE, etc.).

The ideal candidate should be strong in getting things done, communicate well, have a great deal of energy, and enjoy working as part of a global collaborative team.

Candidates for this position will need strong delivery and execution skills, to help projects at all phases overcome technical and organizational obstacles.

What you’ll be doing:

• Design and develop using Infrastructure as Code such that it modular, service oriented and replicable across cloud providers and across regions with high consistency
• Build Observability platforms that can validate and verify the solution at every step and effectively pinpoint the problem
• Actively develop, evolve, and curate cloud principles, patterns, and offerings
• Define and document best practices for delivering technologies on public cloud
• Convert system requirements into Infrastructure as Code to codify system infrastructure
• Perform cloud technology road-mapping & alignments with cloud teams and stakeholders
• Serve as a mentor and help in the development of domain level architects in the HPCaaS cloud and DevOps organization
• Perform architectural and design reviews of cloud systems as well as software systems use of cloud
• Help coordinate multi-disciplinary architecture initiatives and participate in cross-organizational architecture leadership forums
• Collaborate with security teams to design and implement policy controls

Qualifications

What we need to see:

• 6+ years of experience in Linux enterprise service operations, SRE, or Systems Engineering
• Strong experience with continuous delivery (CI/CD) and Infrastructure as Code
• Strong background in orchestration and automation
• Proficiency in architecting, designing, building Observability platform solutions
• Proficiency with Python programming language
• Extensive knowledge of Infrastructure-as-a-Service delivery models, and public cloud deployments in any of the 3 major platforms (AWS preferred)
• Strong analysis, task management and time ma