Staff Systems Engineer (Infrastructure Automation & Virtualization)
Cadence Design Systems23 hours ago
Cork, Ireland or Dublin, IrelandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain infrastructure automation platforms and services using Python and infrastructure-as-code technologies.
- Build reusable Terraform modules, Ansible frameworks, internal developer tools, and self-service infrastructure capabilities.
- Develop API-driven automation services, REST API integrations, orchestration frameworks, and infrastructure lifecycle workflows.
- Create automated testing, release, deployment, compliance-validation, and policy-as-code workflows.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and GitOps processes for infrastructure and platform services.
- Automate provisioning and lifecycle management for compute, storage, and networking across Nutanix, VMware, KVM, AWS, and Azure environments.
- Define engineering standards, lead technical initiatives, participate in architecture and code reviews, and mentor engineers.
- Influence long-term platform strategy and improve developer experience through automation-first engineering practices.
Requirements
- 5-8 years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure automation, or DevOps engineering roles.
- Strong Python development experience building production applications, automation services, APIs, or developer tools.
- Expert-level Terraform experience, including reusable modules, multi-environment architectures, and automation frameworks.
- Strong Ansible experience involving role development, framework design, and large-scale automation implementations.
- Experience with software design patterns, testing frameworks, source control, code reviews, API integration, automation architecture, and distributed systems.
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, release automation, and deployment workflows using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar platforms.
- Experience automating at least two of Nutanix AHV/Prism/AOS, VMware vSphere/ESXi, and KVM/QEMU through APIs, SDKs, or infrastructure-as-code.
- Experience with AWS and/or Azure infrastructure services and working knowledge of networking, infrastructure architecture, and hybrid cloud environments.
- Ability to lead technical initiatives, influence engineering direction, mentor engineers, and communicate effectively.
- Preferred experience includes internal developer platforms, FastAPI, Flask, Django, automation services, operators, controllers, Kubernetes, containers, cloud-native technologies, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Open Policy Agent, and Sentinel.
Benefits
- Competitive salary; no specific amount is stated.
- 25 days of holiday per year.
- Private medical and dental plans, income protection, and life insurance.
- Group personal pension plan.
- Cycle-to-work scheme and gym subsidy.
- Five days of paid volunteer time per year.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Based in Cork or Dublin, Ireland.
- Opportunity to work for a Great Place to Work and Fortune 100 organization.
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About Cadence Design Systems
Cadence Design Systems builds electronic design automation (EDA) software, emulation/acceleration hardware, and reusable IP that help semiconductor and systems companies design, verify, and implement chips and electronic systems. It also develops computational engineering tools, including computational fluid dynamics and molecular modeling for drug discovery. Founded in 1988 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Cadence is a public company listed on NASDAQ under the ticker CDNS.