Staff Systems Engineer (Infrastructure Automation & Virtualization)
Core
Design, build, and maintain automation frameworks and virtualization platforms for Cadence's global engineering environment, ensuring reliability, scalability, and security of on-premises and hybrid cloud infrastructure.
Role type
Staff Systems Engineer (Infrastructure Automation & Virtualization)
Builds
Automation frameworks, virtualization platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and hybrid cloud integrations for thousands of engineers.
Domain
Semiconductor/EDA industry, Infrastructure Engineering, Cloud & Virtualization
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
Terraform, Ansible, Python, Bash scripting, Virtualization (Nutanix, KVM, VMware), CI/CD (GitHub Actions), GitOps, Networking fundamentals, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), Observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)
Preferred skills
AWS or Azure, Policy-as-code (OPA, Sentinel), Container orchestration (Kubernetes, Helm), Infrastructure security tooling, Open-source contributions
Technologies
Terraform, Ansible, Python, GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions, Nutanix Prism, VMware vSphere, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, AWS, Azure
Responsibilities
Design and maintain IaC solutions for multi-environment deployments; Write Python and Bash automation scripts; Build and manage CI/CD pipelines; Administer and optimize virtualization platforms; Support hybrid cloud operations; Contribute to infrastructure design discussions; Monitor infrastructure health and lead incident response; Develop and maintain documentation; Participate in security and compliance reviews; Mentor junior engineers
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities
