Cloud Support Engineer

Cadence Design Systems; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Cadence Design Systems is seeking a Cloud Support Engineer to support our secure cloud-based silicon design environments used by external customers for mission-critical workloads. This role emphasizes responsiveness, professionalism, and delivering an exceptional customer experience.

You will maintain system reliability, resolve issues quickly, and proactively improve the platform through automation and agentic AI, while handling ITAR/CUI data in compliant environments.

Qualifications

• Proven hands-on Linux system administration and troubleshooting.
• Experience supporting HPC or large-scale compute environments.
• Proficiency in Python, shell scripting, Perl, or similar automation languages.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting systems.
• Familiarity with license management systems such as FlexNet/FLEXlm.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a primary technical support contact for external customers using secure cloud-based silicon design platforms.
• Deliver timely, responsive, and high-quality support, ensuring issues are acknowledged and resolved.
• Maintain availability, performance, and reliability of secure multi-tenant environments.
• Monitor HPC cluster performance, job throughput, and queue health; troubleshoot issues.
• Develop automation to streamline recurring operational tasks and use agentic AI to improve MTTR.
• Operate systems containing ITAR‑controlled and CUI data in compliance with regulations.

Skills

Linux admin

HPC environments

Python scripting

Shell scripting

Perl

Monitoring/logging

License management

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

FlexNet/FLEXlm

OpenStack/OpenShift

Job description

At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly motivated Cloud Support Engineer to support our secure, cloud‑based silicon chip design environments used by our external customers for mission‑critical EDA and HPC workloads. This role is customer‑facing and service‑oriented, requiring not only strong technical expertise, but also a commitment to responsiveness, professionalism, and delivering an exceptional customer experience. The Cloud Support Engineer will be responsible for maintaining system reliability, resolving issues quickly and accurately, and proactively improving the platform through automation and agentic AI. Success in this role is measured not just by technical outcomes, but by customer satisfaction, trust, and confidence in the service. This position involves working with export‑restricted data (ITAR/CUI) and supporting secure environments with high operational and compliance standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Customer Support & Service Excellence
  Serve as a primary technical support contact for external customers using secure cloud‑based silicon design platforms
  Deliver timely, responsive, and high‑quality support, ensuring customer issues are acknowledged, communicated, and resolved effectively
  Actively focus on delighting customers by minimizing downtime, anticipating needs, and exceeding service expectations
  Clearly communicate technical issues, status updates, and resolutions to customers with varying levels of technical expertise
  Build trust with customers through professionalism, accountability, and consistent follow‑through
• Platform & Environment Support
  Support and troubleshoot Linux‑based cloud environments used for silicon design and verification workflows
  Maintain availability, performance, and reliability of secure multi‑tenant environments
  Diagnose and resolve system‑level issues across compute, storage, networking, and identity services
• HPC, Licensing & Performance Management
  Monitor HPC cluster performance, job throughput, and queue health
  Identify and remediate HPC job performance issues, including scheduler configuration, resource contention, I/O bottlenecks, and memory constraints
  Troubleshoot and resolve license availability, utilization, and checkout issues impacting customer workloads
  Support distributed resource managers (e.g., Slurm, LSF, SGE, or similar technologies)
• Automation & Agentic AI
  Develop and maintain automation to streamline recurring operational tasks, including: System health, performance, and capacity monitoring User provisioning and de‑provisioning License usage tracking and alerting Detection of abnormal system or job behavior
  Use agentic AI, Python, shell scripting, Perl, or similar technologies to reduce manual effort and improve mean time to resolution (MTTR)
  Continuously improve operational efficiency while enhancing the customer experience
• Security, Compliance & Operations
  Operate and support systems containing ITAR‑controlled and CUI data in compliance with regulatory and company requirements
  Follow documented security, access control, auditing, and change management processes
  Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and corrective actions
  Create and maintain runbooks, knowledge base articles, and customer‑facing documentation

Required Qualifications

• Technical Skills
  Strong hands‑on experience with Linux system administration and troubleshooting
  Experience supporting HPC or large‑scale compute environments
  Proficiency in Python, shell scripting, Perl, or other automation‑focused programming languages
  Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting systems
  Familiarity with license management systems (e.g., FlexNet/FLEXlm or equivalent)
• Customer Service & Professional Skills
  Demonstrated ability to provide excellent customer service in a technical support or operations role
  Strong sense of urgency and ownership when responding to customer issues
  Ability to balance technical depth with clear, customer‑friendly communication
  Organized, dependable, and able to manage multiple customer issues simultaneously
• Security & Compliance
  Ability to work with export‑restricted data (ITAR/CUI) U.S. Person status or eligibility as required to support export‑controlled environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting EDA, semiconductor, or silicon design environments
• Familiarity with cloud‑based HPC platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack/OpenShift)
• Experience applying AI‑assisted or autonomous automation in operations or support contexts
• Exposure to configuration management or infrastructure‑as‑code tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

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