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Principal Engineer - Software

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Chennai, Tamil Nadu
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Chennai, Tamil Nadu
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The Principal Engineer will design and develop automation tools, maintain CI/CD workflows, enhance automation frameworks, and improve tool integration. The role involves collaboration with multi-site teams and requires strong proficiency in various software languages and DevOps tools.
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Are you looking for a unique opportunity to be a part of something great? Want to join a 20,000-member team that works on the technology that powers the world around us? Looking for an atmosphere of trust, empowerment, respect, diversity, and communication? How about an opportunity to own a piece of a multi-billion dollar (with a B!) global organization? We offer all that and more at Microchip Technology, Inc.

People come to work at Microchip because we help design the technology that runs the world. They stay because our culture supports their growth and stability. They are challenged and driven by an incredible array of products and solutions with unlimited career potential. Microchip’s nationally-recognized Leadership Passage Programs support career growth where we proudly enroll over a thousand people annually. We take pride in our commitment to employee development, values-based decision making, and strong sense of community, driven by our Vision, Mission, and 11 Guiding Values; we affectionately refer to it as the Aggregate System and it’s won us countless awards for diversity and workplace excellence.

Our company is built by dedicated team players who love to challenge the status quo; we did not achieve record revenue and over 30 years of quarterly profitability without a great team dedicated to empowering innovation. People like you.

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Job Description:

Principal Engineer shall be a member of the software team in Microchip’s Secure Computing Products Group responsible for:

  • Design and develop tools, automation for existing tools and processes, wherever required.
  • Create and maintain CI/CD workflows for development, validation, and release of software components.
  • Enhance existing automation framework for unit testing and validation.
  • Improve tools integration and operations.
  • Work with multi-site cross-functional teams.

    Requirements/Qualifications:

      Minimum qualifications include:

      • 9 to 11 year’s of experience in Demonstrated proficiency in automation and experience with Linux/Windows platforms.
      • Java programming experience
      • DevOps experience, good understanding of Software Design Lifecycle
      • Experience in scripting languages for automation (Groovy, JavaScript, PowerShell, Unix/Linux Scripting, and Python).
      • Expertise in DevOps and associated tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS services) is required.
      • Experience with CI/CD pipeline tools and methodology (Jenkins, JIRA, Git, Bitbucket) is highly desirable.  Develop and deploy software into a working production pipeline
      • Automate day-to-day integration tasks.
      • Strong analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills
      • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

      Preferred qualifications include:

      • Familiarity with scripting languages, such as Python, Perl, and Bash
      • Experience working on a software development team using issue tracking tools such as JIRA or Polarion and source control management such as Git
      • Assist in the implementation of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
      • Proficiency in DevOps tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS services is required.
      • Experience with frontend and backend web application fundamentals including MySQL, PHP, HTML, JavaScript, JVM, Apache Tomcat
      • Unix/Linux user experience, some IT knowledge a plus.
      • Experience in working with REST APIs and endpoints is required.
      • Experience with XML, YAML and JSON data formats is required.
      • Experience in Verification and validation of embedded software products
      • Familiarity with command line build tools

      Travel Time:

      0% - 25%

      Top Skills

      Groovy
      Java
      JavaScript
      Powershell
      Python
      Unix/Linux Scripting

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      Chennai, Chennai, India

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