Job Description

The Intel Programmable Solutions Group (PSG) is now Altera, an Intel Company. Altera prioritizes customers with end-to-end FPGAs, accessible AI, software, and supply resilience.

In Q4 2023, Intel announced PSG will be reported as a separate business unit beginning on January 1, 2024, with ongoing support from Intel. This position is associated to that standalone business strategy and is expected to fully transition to a standalone company at some time in the future.

You will be part of Altera Software and Solutions (SaS) DevOps Team also known as SPES.

SPES is looking for a highly skilled and experienced DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure Engineer. In this role, you will be shaping and tuning the Altera's next generation software development lifecycle automation and its infrastructure, because a nimble and agile software development lifecycle results in a competitive advantage for the organization and the customer it serves.

The ideal candidate will have a minimum 8 years of experience in the field of DevOps, with a strong background in cloud infrastructure management and automation. Key responsibility of this DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure specialist is to lead and drive our transition from legacy DevOps environment into cloud based next generation platform and framework. This candidate must be comfortable to be the change-agent and a technology evangelist to influence, guide, mentor and hand-hold software development teams in their migration journey.

In summary, the DevOps Engineer will play a crucial role in optimizing our next-generation development and deployment processes, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security across the infrastructure.

This is a role for someone who aspires to grow into Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) role within the next 4-5 years. A SRE is an advanced DevOps role that combines software engineering and systems administration to ensure the scalability, performance, and reliability of large-scale, cloud-based applications and infrastructure. Traditional operations roles focus on maintaining systems and reacting to issues, often with a fire-fighting mentality. However, as applications and infrastructure became complex and cloud-based - a more proactive and software-centric approach was needed to ensure reliability at scale.

By combining software engineering and systems administration, SREs brings a different mindset to operations. They approached operations challenges with a software engineering perspective, leveraging: - Coding - Automation - Engineering Principles

Qualifications

• Bachelor's/Master's or PhD degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or related field
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in a DevOps role, with a strong focus on infrastructure management
• Proven experience with Cloud Platforms and Solutions, such as Google Cloud, AWS, and Azure
• Specifically advanced knowledge in Azure (EntraID, user management, secret management, compute and storage usage)
• Advanced experience in GitHub including Enterprise. It would be desirable if the candidate can demonstrate Perforce experience and experience in migrating software development between these environments
• Strong understanding of containerization technologies like Docker and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes
• Hands-on experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef
• Programming proficiency: GitHub developers should also be experts in programming languages such as Python, Java, CSS, Ruby, R, or another language
• Strong test-driven-development (TDD) background, with Object-Oriented Design Principles
• Highly familiar with developer productivity tooling (VSCode, linters, auto-formatters, pre-commit hooks)
• Cloud application developer traits such as building and publishing containers, deploying containers to kubernetes, uServices architectures
• Solid communication skills with peers and management

In addition to these skills, able to demonstrate one or more of the following to accelerate growth into SRE

• Infrastructure as Code, using Terraform, or technology-specific languages such as Azure Bicep
• Knowledge in Jenkins
• Leveraging tools and writing automation around deployment and validation of these deployments (automating Infra-as-Code and triggering validation)
• Configuration as Code for GitHub Actions or Jenkins
• Python, C++, and shell languages like bash. PowerShell, and the dreaded Windows Batch
• Monitoring tools, and how to aggregate data to them
• Dashboard tools
• Database design and management
• Bonus: Front-end web dev (but really, that isn't ideal for an SRE to focus on)

Altera creates market-leading programmable logic devices that deliver a wide range of capabilities to customers today. Combining Altera's industry-leading FPGA technology and customer support with Intel's world-class semiconductor manufacturing capabilities will enable customers to create the next generation of accelerators with unmatched performance and power efficiency. Altera takes pride in creating an energetic and dynamic work environment that is driven by ingenuity and innovation. We believe the growth and success of our group is directly linked to the growth and satisfaction of our employees.

Inside this Business Group

The Programmable Solutions Group (PSG) was formed from the acquisition of Altera. As part of Intel, PSG will create market-leading programmable logic devices that deliver a wider range of capabilities than customers experience today. Combining Altera's industry-leading FPGA technology and customer support with Intel's world-class semiconductor manufacturing capabilities will enable customers to create the next generation of electronic systems with unmatched performance and power efficiency. PSG takes pride in creating an energetic and dynamic work environment that is driven by ingenuity and innovation. We believe the growth and success of our group is directly linked to the growth and satisfaction of our employees. That is why PSG is committed to a work environment that is flexible and collaborative, and allows our employees to reach their full potential.

Posting Statement

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

Benefits

We offer a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry. It consists of competitive pay, stock, bonuses, as well as, benefit programs which include health, retirement, and vacation. Find more information about all of our Amazing Benefits here. (https://jobs.intel.com/en/benefits)

Working Model

This role will require an on-site presence.