Senior HPC DevOps Engineer
NXP Semiconductors1 day ago
Eindhoven, NetherlandsSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain automation for configuration, deployment, and lifecycle management of Linux systems and HPC services.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, automated testing frameworks, configuration systems, base images, and deployment strategies.
- Develop reusable automation libraries, scripts, internal tooling, and workflow integrations to reduce manual effort and improve reliability.
- Administer Linux systems and services while optimizing performance, availability, security, scalability, and maintainability.
- Create and enforce standards for Linux administration, security, compliance, access methods, and base image creation.
- Collaborate with global teams to deliver HPC and VDI solutions for R&D operations.
- Participate in on-call support, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, technical reviews, solution architecture, and technology evaluations.
- Engage stakeholders, provide technical guidance, document systems and workflows, drive continuous improvement, and mentor junior engineers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Approximately 5–7 years of experience in DevOps, automation engineering, or platform engineering roles.
- Strong scripting and automation experience with Python, Bash, Perl, or equivalent languages.
- Hands-on experience with Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, or equivalent configuration-management and infrastructure-as-code tools.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with GitLab CI, Jenkins, or equivalent tools.
- Strong Linux system administration experience, including Red Hat or similar distributions and Unix/Linux command-line tools.
- Extensive AWS experience and familiarity with cloud-native automation and infrastructure-as-code.
- Experience integrating automation with APIs, databases, and enterprise platforms.
- Preferred experience with automation frameworks, self-service portals, workflow engines, monitoring integrations, Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, OpenShift, LSF, Slurm, and Linux desktop environments.
- Preferred familiarity with semiconductor design and verification tools, networking concepts, and AI-assisted development or LLM-based automation.
- Experience mentoring junior engineers and collaborating with stakeholders across functions.
Benefits
- The role is based within a European team supporting global operations across Europe, India, and the United States.
- Participation in an on-call rotation provides 24/7 support for end users.
- The team maintains an approximately 50% development and 50% operational activity mix.
- The role includes Agile planning, sprint, refinement, stand-up, retrospective, and release activities.
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About NXP Semiconductors
NXP Semiconductors designs and supplies microcontrollers, application processors (i.MX), analog/RF, secure connectivity, and automotive chips for OEMs in automotive, industrial/IoT, mobile, and communications infrastructure markets. A public company (NASDAQ: NXPI) founded in 2006 and headquartered in Eindhoven, it sells silicon, software, and reference designs, and supports customers with BSPs and development tools. Notable lines include i.MX processors, S32 automotive platforms, NFC and secure elements, radar, and power management devices.