Director, Engineering IT Operations

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.

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

Linux Infrastructure

• Extensive experience architecting, deploying, and supporting Linux platforms used for complex engineering applications

• 10+ years of 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