DevOps Director of Compute Infrastructure
amd
Job Description
WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING
We care deeply about transforming lives with AMD technology to enrich our industry, our communities, and the world. Our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences – the building blocks for the data center, artificial intelligence, PCs, gaming and embedded. Underpinning our mission is the AMD culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world’s most important challenges. We strive for execution excellence while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives.
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THE ROLE:
The AMD Adaptive and Embedded Computing Group (AECG), formerly Xilinx, is committed to proliferating Adaptive SoCs, FPGAs, and their associated designs tools (Vivado) and software platforms (Vitis). We are seeking a DevOps Compute Infrastructure Director to lead our strategic and operational initiatives, ensuring excellence in developer experience and engineering productivity. This role is critical in maintaining our product leadership and addressing opportunities across all market segments amid growing AI adoption.
THE PERSON:
As DevOps Director of Compute Infrastructure, you will lead a global team to enable best in class developer experience for a large software R&D organization. We are looking for a dynamic and experienced leader who will be responsible for the vision and execution of hardware infrastructure projects and critical enterprise/cloud software applications. You will partner with technical experts and senior management to drive adoption of best practices, tools, hardware, and cloud services to improve efficiency, quality, security, and productivity of the software development organization. KEY
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Lead a global team to execute on strategic projects meeting the compute infrastructure requirements of a large/diverse software development organization Work with vendors to specify enterprise and cloud hardware and software products for procurement and help determine the optimal allocation of resources across sites and product teams Research and deploy new technologies and services to improve efficiency and productivity of software development activities Maintains and operates technology platforms and tooling used by CI/CD processes including deployable artifacts Advise on licensing terms, security policies, and audit/legal compliance Maintain documentation describing usage and support of services and tools Coordinate support across time zones and geographies Continue to grow the team, provide mentorship, and build future leaders Collect and report Key Performance Indicators and operational metrics Cross-functional cooperation and alignment with IT and software engineering stakeholders
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
Proven engineering leader with a passion for delivering robust, secure, productive, and well-supported compute infrastructure services Review and provide feedback on features, technology, architecture, designs, resources, and budgets related to Developer Experience Strong understanding of software development, CI/CD, and IT concepts for large-scale software products Successful deployment of dockers, containers, and kubernetes including CI/CD automation frameworks such as Jenkins and GitHub actions/runners Experience administering revision control systems (such as GitHub or Perforce), artifact deployment (such as JFrog Artifactory), and remote file system synchronization (such as RSYNC, NetApp FlexCache) Experience deploying standardized IDEs and remote software development environments Experience administering bug tracking and wiki services such as Atlassian Jira and Confluence tools Knowledge of OS and application software provisioning tools for Linux and Windows physical hosts and through hypervisor virtualization Proficiency with Linux (navigation, shell scripting, system monitoring) and networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, SSH, VPN, SSL Certificates) Understanding of information security procedures Strong verbal and written communications skills Working experience in DevOps or IT leadership role
ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:
Bachelor or Master Degree in Computer Science
LOCATION:
San Jose, CA #LI-DW1#LI-HYBRID
At AMD, your base pay is one part of your total rewards package. Your base pay will depend on where your skills, qualifications, experience, and location fit into the hiring range for the position. You may be eligible for incentives based upon your role such as either an annual bonus or sales incentive. Many AMD employees have the opportunity to own shares of AMD stock, as well as a discount when purchasing AMD stock if voluntarily participating in AMD’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also be eligible for competitive benefits described in more detail here. AMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants’ needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.