Director, Engineering IT Operations

Cirrus Logic

. Define and lead the infrastructure strategy supporting semiconductor design and engineering operations across global locations.

Posted 6/20/2026full-timeAustin • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

DNSLinuxNFS

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S.
Export control restrictions apply based on applicable laws and regulations. Candidates must be able to access technical data without the requirement for an export license.
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.
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.
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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Cirrus Logic is also known for its award-winning culture, which was built on a foundation of inclusion and fairness, meaningful community engagement, and delivering enjoyable employee experiences at every turn.

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Hard Skills & Tools

LinuxRHELCentOSNFSLDAPActive DirectoryDNSDHCPSSHPAM

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationcollaborationoperational excellenceincident responseroot cause analysischange managementdisaster recovery planningcontinuous improvementcapacity planning