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 worlds leading technology providers to accelerate the delivery of tomorrows 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 KLAs Global Products Group (GPG) which is responsible for creating all of KLAs 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 KLAs 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 worlds leading technology providers to accelerate the delivery of tomorrows 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
• Youre comfortable partnering directly with leadership teams to design technical strategies while simultaneously collaborating with senior IT groups in an advisory capacity

Minimum Qualifications

Masters /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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