Senior DevOps Engineer — Scalable Linux Infra, AI Automation

NVIDIA

Santa Clara (CA)

On-site

USD 184,000 - 357,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

NVIDIA seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead infrastructure operations within the Networking Software group in Santa Clara. You will build, automate, and operate scalable Linux platforms supporting networking software development and testing.

You will mentor engineers, drive reliability, and implement scalable operational processes across global sites. Equity and benefits accompany a competitive base salary and opportunities to influence cutting-edge GPU/networking tech.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • 6+ years of experience in systems engineering, DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure operations.
  • Experience in semiconductor or hardware-focused environment with bare-metal Linux and server components.
  • Proficiency in generative AI tools and applying them to automation and troubleshooting.
  • Strong data-center networking knowledge (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, routing).
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and cross-departmental collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

  • Build, provision, configure, and maintain scalable Linux infrastructure for networking feature creation and validation.
  • Develop automation for provisioning, configuration management, deployment, upgrades, and operations.
  • Build reusable tools and self-service capabilities to improve efficiency and reduce manual work.
  • Diagnose and resolve complex hardware, firmware, OS, virtualization, and storage issues.
  • Implement monitoring, observability, capacity management, and reliability practices.
  • Define standards, runbooks, and scalable processes with engineering, IT, facilities, security, and network teams.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentor team members in automation and troubleshooting.

Skills

Linux administration
DevOps
Site reliability
Automation
Networking
Troubleshooting hardware

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Tools

KVM/QEMU
Kubernetes
Distributed storage
OS provisioning

Job description

NVIDIA seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead infrastructure operations within the Networking Software group in Santa Clara. You will build, automate, and operate scalable Linux platforms supporting networking software development and testing.

You will mentor engineers, drive reliability, and implement scalable operational processes across global sites. Equity and benefits accompany a competitive base salary and opportunities to influence cutting-edge GPU/networking tech.

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