Computing DevOps Engineer

About the role

Applied Materials' Computing Delivery Engineering group maintains the computing infrastructure for semiconductor manufacturing tools, each running in an air-gapped mini data center of 3 to 30 hosts with no cloud dependency. The company is looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to maintain CI/CD processes, tooling and infrastructure supporting a cross-functional development organization. This is a fully hands-on individual contributor role with no managerial responsibilities.

Key responsibilities

• Research, design and continuously improve end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for Windows (PowerShell) and Linux (Ansible) workflows.
• Architect and maintain automated provisioning pipelines from bare-metal host initialization through full system configuration and readiness validation.
• Design DevOps processes and tooling for air-gapped deployment so the full system stack can run independently at integrator and customer sites.
• Drive infrastructure-as-code across compute, network, storage and firewall elements of the embedded data center.
• Define pipeline standards, testing gates, code quality checks and release management processes.
• Collaborate with development and system qualification engineers and build CI/CD tools for R&D teams.
• Participate in system specification and planning, including monitoring and control mechanisms, and troubleshoot infrastructure issues.

Required profile

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems or a related technical field.
• 8-10 years of progressive DevOps or infrastructure engineering experience.
• Fluent written and spoken English.
• Preferred: background in semiconductor equipment, industrial automation or embedded systems; experience in hardware-software co-development.

Required skills

• CI/CD platforms such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps.
• Infrastructure-as-code and configuration management with Ansible and PowerShell DSC/scripting.
• Bare-metal provisioning, OS imaging and host lifecycle management (PXE, Kickstart, WinPE).
• Git, version control and branching strategies; artifact management (Nexus, JFrog Artifactory).
• VLANs, firewall rule management and storage integration in CI/CD workflows.
• Preferred: Docker/Podman, ELK, Prometheus/Grafana, STIG compliance and zero-trust principles.