DevOps Engineer

KLA is a global leader in diversified electronics for the semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem. Virtually every electronic device in the world is produced using our technologies. No laptop, smartphone, wearable device, voice-controlled gadget, flexible screen, VR device or smart car would have made it into your hands without us. KLA invents systems and solutions for the manufacturing of wafers and reticles, integrated circuits, packaging, printed circuit boards and flat panel displays. The innovative ideas and devices that are advancing humanity all begin with inspiration, research and development. KLA focuses more than average on innovation and we invest 15% of sales back into R&D. Our expert teams of physicists, engineers, data scientists and problem-solvers work together with the world’s leading technology providers to accelerate the delivery of tomorrow’s electronic devices. Life here is exciting and our teams thrive on tackling really hard problems. There is never a dull moment with us.

With over 40 years of semiconductor process control experience, chipmakers around the globe rely on KLA to ensure that their fabs ramp next-generation devices to volume production quickly and cost-effectively. Enabling the movement towards advanced chip design, KLA's Global Products Group (GPG), which is responsible for creating all of KLA’s metrology and inspection products, is looking for the best and the brightest research scientist, software engineers, application development engineers, and senior product technology process engineers. Central Engineering is KLA's largest engineering organization comprised of 9 Centers-of-Excellence (CoE) in various disciplines applied across all product groups in the company. These CoE include Handling & Automation, Precision Motion Control, Sensors & Image Acquisition, Platform Design, and Packaging Engineering, among others. Talent includes over 500 engineers across global centers in Israel, China, India, and the US. Each CoE contributes not just talent and deliverables per discipline toward product programs, but also subject matter expertise, best practices, roadmaps, specialized facilities, apparatus, models, and analytics. These differentiate KLA not only in WHAT we do, but also in HOW we do it.

Job Description/Preferred Qualifications

 DevOps Engineer

KLA - Chennai, India

KLA Overview:

KLA is a global leader in diversified electronics for the semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem. Virtually every electronic device in the world is produced using our technologies. No laptop, smartphone, wearable device, voice-controlled gadget, flexible screen, VR device or smart car would have made it into your hands without us. KLA invents systems and solutions for the manufacturing of wafers and reticles, integrated circuits, packaging, printed circuit boards and flat panel displays. The innovative ideas and devices that are advancing humanity all begin with inspiration, research and development. KLA focuses more than average on innovation and in 2019 we invested 15% of sales back into R&D. Our expert teams of physicists, engineers, data scientists and problem-solvers work together with the world’s leading technology providers to accelerate the delivery of tomorrow’s electronic devices. Life here is exciting and our teams thrive on tackling really hard problems. There is never a dull moment with us.

Key Responsibilities:

This position is for an Infrastructure as Code DevOps Engineer who will be supporting our Digital Transformation Initiatives surrounding our CI/CD Infrastructure. Responsibilities will include, but not limited to:

• Listen to product development organization needs and formulate a technical project plan to develop impactful solutions
• Support Kubernetes Clusters Hosting Developer Workflows
• Launch projects through hands-on implementation, evaluate and drive improvements to existing infrastructure
• Collaborate with infrastructure development teams to implement industry BKM for IaC pipelines
• Automate builds, and develop and integrate new tools to support CI/CD (continuous integration/delivery) and reporting across projects in various environments like On-Prem and Cloud.
• Develop and maintain well architected build scripts and Integrate new tools/plugins to support CI/CD (using Azure DevOps)

Required Skills/Qualifications:

• Strong knowledge of Hashicorp Stack Including Terraform, Packer, Vault and Consul
• Strong scripting language experience in one or more - Perl, shell, command script, python groovy
• Strong knowledge of source repository administration with tools like GIT-Hub, or Azure DevOps
• Experience with Virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V) and Cloud (Azure/AWS) technologies
• Strong experience with configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
• Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and tools to support DevOps role
• Apply DevOps philosophy, Agile methods, Infrastructure as Code to your work and lead infrastructure and operations with these approaches
• Experience with Monitoring and Telemetry Stack (Prometheus/Grafana/ELK…)

Professional skills

• You genuinely enjoy interacting with teammates from across the business and have a knack for communicating technical concepts to nontechnical audiences
• You love creating robust, scalable, flexible, and relevant solutions that help transform businesses and industries
• You're comfortable partnering directly with leadership teams to design technical strategies while simultaneously collaborating with senior IT groups in an advisory capacity

Minimum Qualifications

Master's /Bachelor Level Degree and related work experience of 2 years

We offer a competitive, family friendly total rewards package. We design our programs to reflect our commitment to an inclusive environment, while ensuring we provide benefits that meet the diverse needs of our employees.

KLA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer

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