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 responsibilities

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

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

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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.

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