Our client is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of semiconductor chip-making equipment. A majority of the world’s microchips receive their critical lithographic patterning in machines made by this organisation. In addition, they produce metrology tools and advanced applications to analyze and optimize the performance of the customer production process.
Job Mission
Troubleshoot short-term problems and translate, develop into structural improvements on our distributed data and compute platform infrastructure. Be accurate, be precise and help drive up the aggregate availability of the installs of these distributed computing systems in Korea, Taiwan, Israel, China and the US. Be part of the computing platform that is a main pillar in the production of next-generation microchips for companies like Apple, Samsung, and others.
Responsibilities
- Create awareness in other teams about methods and procedures we use to help them prevent repetitive help requests.
- Help application developers understand the infrastructure, cluster, and systems.
- Understand and explain how the system fits into the customer’s ecosystem.
- Share knowledge and mindset with other teams (development and infrastructure engineers).
- Contribute towards building VCP as a product that meets our quality standards.
- Increase stability and reliability of VCP through automated testing and automation.
- Enhance customer satisfaction and product reliability.
- Improve the functionality and reliability of VCP.
- Translate customer ecosystem needs into engineering deliverables.
- Identify and resolve system and cluster issues.
- Integrate individual stories into comprehensive solutions.
- Make VCP reliable by improving system resilience, including bug fixes and structural improvements.
- Resolve bugs sustainably by implementing regression tests and structural fixes.
- Manage predictable component lifecycle as an ambassador.
- Maintain the technical roadmap (application lifecycle management).
- Support feature and service requests from the field.
- Propose and implement improvements to technical solutions and workflows in collaboration with stakeholders.
Highly Valued Qualifications & Experiences
- Experience with data centers and operating systems.
- Experience with zero-downtime technology introduction, including data migration.
- Passion for automated testing and qualification, ideally within CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong interest in diagnosing and resolving networking issues.
- Willingness to work remotely outside regular hours when necessary to build fail-safe systems (exceptions rather than the rule).
Required Qualifications & Experiences
- Practical knowledge of distributed computing systems.
- Experience with build and release infrastructure such as Maven, Nexus, Bamboo, Github.
- Familiarity with at least one scripting language, preferably Python.