Senior Linux Systems Engineer

MaC VC; México; On-site; MXN 900,000 - 1,350,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm in Mexico is seeking a Senior Linux Systems Engineer to optimize health, performance, and scalability of large-scale compute environments powering EDA workloads. You will manage on‑prem and cloud bursting, balancing cost and performance while evolving hybrid cloud strategies for HPC workloads.

The role requires 5+ years of Linux administration, strong cloud experience across AWS/Azure/GCP, and automation expertise, with HPC schedulers experience essential for high throughput workloads.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of direct Linux system administration experience.
• Experience deploying Linux-based workloads in at least one major public cloud provider.
• Familiarity with HPC schedulers (Slurm, PBS, or LSF).
• Experience with on‑premises to cloud bursting and cost governance.
• Knowledge of observability and monitoring tools.

Responsibilities

• Administer enterprise Linux distributions (RHEL, Rocky, Ubuntu, SLES).
• Unify infrastructure across on‑prem and cloud environments using configuration management.
• Develop automation to capture workflows for cloud-scale issues.
• Architect and maintain cloud bursting for HPC workloads.
• Optimize instance selection for EDA tool workloads and networking.
• Implement cost-governance for cloud compute.
• Monitor workloads with observability tools and identify bottlenecks.
• Support HPC schedulers to ensure high throughput and fair resources.

Skills

Linux system administration

Cloud computing

Automation scripting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related STEM field

Tools

Terraform

Slurm

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Company

Qualcomm Intl Inc., Mexico Branch Office

Job Area

Information Technology Group, Information Technology Group > IT Engineering

General Summary

As a Senior Linux Systems Engineer within the HW Engineering Compute team, you will be responsible for the health, performance, and scalability of massive-scale compute environments that power Qualcomm’s next-generation semiconductor design. This will relate to management, configuration, and augmentation of the HPC servers leveraged to enable Qualcomm’s Electronic Design Automation (EDA) workloads both on-premises and in public cloud. Our Hybrid Cloud strategy will require maintenance and evolution of our current cloud footprint for "bursting" of workloads from on-premises data centers to major public cloud providers. This includes optimizing for both cost and performance within the unique context of that environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide expert-level administration for enterprise Linux distributions including RHEL, Rocky Linux, Ubuntu and SLES.
• Unify infrastructure using configuration management to ensure configuration parity between on-prem and cloud environments.
• Develop script-based automations to facilitate "passive" knowledge capture, transcribing triage sessions into structured workflows that can be applied to future cloud-scale issues.
• Architect and maintain Cloud Bursting solutions that allow on-premises HPC schedulers (Slurm/LSF) to dynamically scale into public cloud environments.
• Optimize cloud instance selection for specific EDA tool behaviors (e.g., memory-intensive synthesis vs. compute-heavy simulation), focusing on HPC-optimized instances and specialized networking (e.g., AWS EFA).
• Implement cost-governance strategies for cloud compute to minimize waste without impacting engineering schedules.
• Utilize observability tools to monitor workloads, identifying bottlenecks in on premises workloads or the cloud
• Understand key facilities within the Linux OS to improve EDA tool performance
• Understand how to interact with HPC job schedulers (Slurm, PBS, or LSF) to ensure high throughput and fair resource allocation for massive EDA workloads.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related STEM field.
• Experience: 5+ years of direct Linux system administration experience, specifically identifying system enhancements (performance, stability, or otherwise) and deploying them at scale
• Cloud: Experience deploying and managing Linux-based workloads in at least one major public cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

Preferred Qualifications

• EDA Experience: Familiarity with the compute requirements of EDA tools (e.g., Cadence, Synopsys, Mentor Graphics).
• Cloud HPC: Experience with cloud-native HPC tools like AWS Parallel Cluster, Azure CycleCloud, or cloud-based NetApp/Lustre storage.
• IaC Mastery: Advanced proficiency with Terraform for multi-cloud infrastructure deployment.
• Certification: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, Azure Administrator Associate, or equivalent GCP certification.

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of IT-related work experience with a Bachelor's degree.

OR

5+ years of IT-related work experience without a Bachelor’s degree.

Applicants

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