Staff Systems Engineer: Infra Automation & Virtualization

Cadence Design Systems, Inc.; Ireland; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical

Dental plans

Income Protection

Life Insurance

Cycle to work scheme

Gym subsidy

Volunteer days

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. in Cork or Dublin, Ireland seeks a Staff Systems Engineer to design, build and maintain automation frameworks and virtualization platforms that support Cadence’s global engineering environment.

You will work on on‑premises and hybrid cloud infrastructure, partnering with Platform Engineering, Security and Cloud Architecture, while mentoring junior engineers and promoting an automation‑first culture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent.
• 5–8 years of infrastructure engineering experience focusing on automation and IaC.
• Expert-level Terraform skills for multi-environment deployments.
• Proficiency with Ansible for configuration management and automation.
• Python and Bash scripting for automation tasks.
• Experience with at least two virtualization platforms (Nutanix/VMware/KVM).
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools and GitOps workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain IaC solutions using Terraform and Ansible to automate compute, storage, and networking across environments.
• Develop and maintain Python and Bash scripts to reduce manual ops and streamline pipelines.
• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or equivalents to deploy infrastructure.
• Administer virtualization platforms (Nutanix, KVM, VMware) for performance and reliability.
• Support hybrid cloud operations across AWS and Azure with automation-first practices.
• Contribute to architecture discussions on automation, virtualization, and cloud integration.
• Monitor health with Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog; lead RCAs and remediation.
• Document automation frameworks and runbooks for consistency.
• Participate in security reviews, applying policy-as-code principles.
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code reviews.

Skills

Infrastructure automation

GitOps workflows

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud platforms

Python scripting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Python

GitHub Enterprise

GitHub Actions

Nutanix Prism

VMware vSphere

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Job description

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. in Cork or Dublin, Ireland seeks a Staff Systems Engineer to design, build and maintain automation frameworks and virtualization platforms that support Cadence’s global engineering environment.

You will work on on‑premises and hybrid cloud infrastructure, partnering with Platform Engineering, Security and Cloud Architecture, while mentoring junior engineers and promoting an automation‑first culture.