Principal Engineer - Software

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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%