As the IT Manager, you'll be the strategic and technical leader for IT operations. This hands-on role involves leading and mentoring a small team, plus direct contribution to architecture, maintenance, and optimization. You'll bridge engineering needs and technology, ensuring infrastructure is a competitive advantage. You'll manage a hybrid environment : an HPC farm, cloud resources, and essential services for ~150 technical users.
What You'll Do
- Team Leadership & Strategy : Lead, mentor, and grow the IT team; develop a long-term IT roadmap aligned with company goals; manage budget, vendors, and procurement; manage and oversee internal tools and support applications development, liaise between stakeholders to direct website development;
- Infrastructure & HPC Management : Own our hybrid-cloud, RHEL-based (Rocky Linux) compute farm (SLURM-managed); ensure high availability, performance, and security of servers, storage, and networking (office, colocation, Hetzner cloud); drive automation with Ansible , Python, and Bash. Responsible for proper backup strategy and disaster recovery plans.
- Engineering Enablement : Partner with silicon design / verification engineers to optimize IT for their workflows; manage GitLab and GitLab CI / CD environment, manage licensing, deployment, and support of EDA tools and custom Python tooling; evaluate new technologies for productivity.
- IT Operations & Support : Oversee IT support; manage user devices, network services (DNS, DHCP, NFS) and collaboration tools; knowledge of authentication stack and user management (freeIPA, Keycloak, OAuth2), develop security policies, data backup, and disaster recovery plans.
What You'll Bring (Qualifications)
Required :
Proven IT management / senior systems engineering experience, ideally in semiconductor, EDA, or HPC environments.Deep expertise in RHEL-based Linux systems administration (Rocky Linux, RHEL, CentOS) .Strong scripting / automation skills : Python and Bash .Hands-on experience with Ansible .Experience managing core network services / protocols.Ability to lead technical projects and manage a small team.Excellent problem-solving skills; ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.Bonus Points :
Direct experience with HPC workload managers (SLURM, LSF, SGE).Direct experience in administering GitLab self-hosted instances.Familiarity with EDA toolchain IT requirements (Synopsys, Cadence, Siemens).Familiarity with Mikrotik and UniFi network equipment.Experience managing hybrid infrastructure (on-premise, cloud).Strong understanding of IT security best practices.Why Join Us?
Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits.Opportunity to build and shape IT infrastructure for industry-leading silicon design.Deeply technical, collaborative environment with a strong engineering culture.Key leadership role with significant company impact.If you are a technology leader passionate about building and running the engine for cutting-edge engineering, we'd love to hear from you.