Lead Platform Infrastructure Engineer

KLA•Milpitas, CA

2d•$186,200 - $316,500

About The Position

KLA’s Semiconductor Products and Customers business unit designs, builds, and sells products that help chip manufacturers meet high-quality standards. Within it, the Film and Scatterometry Technology division delivers metrology solutions for advanced semiconductor manufacturing, partnering with customers from early R&D through high-volume production. The Lead Platform Infrastructure Engineer will help build and automate the infrastructure that powers applications. The role works with platform engineers to deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters, automate environment builds, improve monitoring and platform reliability, and help application teams deploy and operate their services. The engineer will own meaningful parts of the platform end to end, participate in technical design and code reviews, and take on increasingly complex challenges. The position requires technical leadership, including owning architecture for a platform or major subsystem and guiding other engineers.

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 other engineers.
Deep Linux administration skills and solid knowledge of networking, including TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, and VLANs, and 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 in 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 explaining technical trade-offs to engineers, managers, and customers.
Minimum qualifications: a master's-level degree and 6 years of related work experience, or a bachelor's-level 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

Build and automate infrastructure that powers applications.
Deploy, manage, upgrade, and troubleshoot production Kubernetes clusters.
Automate environment builds using infrastructure-as-code and configuration-management tools.
Improve monitoring, observability, and platform reliability.
Make it easier for application teams to deploy and operate their services.
Own platform components or subsystems end to end and guide the work of other engineers.
Participate in technical design and code reviews.
Explain technical trade-offs to engineers, managers, and customers.