Lead Platform Infrastructure Engineer
About The Position
KLA’s Film and Scatterometry Technology (FaST) division delivers metrology solutions for advanced semiconductor manufacturing, including systems measuring film thickness, critical dimensions, composition, and resistivity. The division partners with customers from early R&D through high-volume production. The Lead Platform Infrastructure Engineer will build and automate infrastructure that powers applications. The role includes deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters, automating environment builds, improving monitoring and platform reliability, and helping application teams deploy and operate services. The engineer will own platform components end to end, participate in technical design and code reviews, and take on complex technical challenges.
Requirements
- At least 4 years running production Kubernetes at scale, including cluster installation, upgrades, and troubleshooting beyond managed cloud services.
- Demonstrated technical leadership, including owning architecture for a platform or major subsystem and guiding the work of other engineers.
- Deep Linux administration skills.
- Solid knowledge of networking, including TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, and VLANs, and of storage concepts.
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management, such as Terraform, Ansible, or Helm.
- Proficiency in at least one programming language and shell scripting; Go or Python is preferred.
- Experience with containers, container image builds, registries, and CI/CD systems.
- Practical experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical trade-offs to engineers, managers, and customers.
- Minimum qualifications: a master's degree and 6 years of related work experience, or a bachelor's degree and 8 years of related work experience.
Nice To Haves
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS), or equivalent.
- Experience with on-premises and edge Kubernetes distributions such as RKE2, k3s, OpenShift, or Rancher, and with air-gapped installations.
- Experience with virtualization platforms such as VMware, KVM, or Hyper-V, and with server and network hardware configuration.
- Familiarity with GitOps tooling, service mesh such as Istio or Linkerd, and policy engines such as OPA Gatekeeper or Kyverno.
- Background running data-intensive or HPC workloads, including GPU scheduling, distributed storage, or SQL/NoSQL databases on Kubernetes.
- Experience delivering software into semiconductor, manufacturing, or other regulated industrial environments.
- Exposure to public cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP, and hybrid architectures.
Responsibilities
- Deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters.
- Automate infrastructure and environment builds.
- Improve monitoring and platform reliability.
- Enable application teams to deploy and operate their services.
- Own meaningful parts of the platform from end to end.
- Participate in technical design and code reviews.
- Provide technical leadership by owning platform or major-subsystem architecture and guiding other engineers.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and other voluntary benefits.
- 401(k) with company matching.
- Employee stock purchase program (ESPP).
- Student debt assistance.
- Tuition reimbursement program.
- Development and career growth opportunities and programs.
- Financial planning benefits.
- Wellness benefits, including an employee assistance program (EAP).
- Paid time off and paid company holidays.
- Family care and bonding leave.
- Potential participation in performance incentive programs.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
