At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.Job Summary
We are seeking a highly motivated candidate for the position of Cloud Support Engineer with a strong infrastructure background to support our secure, cloudbased silicon chip design environments used by external customers for missioncritical EDA, HPC, and containerized workloads. This role is customerfacing and serviceoriented, requiring deep technical expertise across Linux, cloud infrastructure, and platform operations, along with a strong commitment to responsiveness, professionalism, and delivering an exceptional customer experience.
This role is wellsuited for engineers with handson experience operating OpenStack and/or OpenShift platforms, along with traditional infrastructure components such as compute, storage, networking, and identity services. Success is measured not only by technical outcomes, but by customer satisfaction, trust, and confidence in the service.
This position involves working with exportrestricted data (ITAR/CUI) and supporting highly secure environments with stringent operational and compliance standards.
Key Responsibilities
Customer Support & Service Excellence
Serve as a primary technical support contact for external customers using secure cloudbased silicon design and HPC platforms
Deliver timely, responsive, and highquality support, ensuring customer issues are acknowledged, communicated, and resolved effectively
Proactively minimize downtime, anticipate customer needs, and resolve issues before they impact workloads
Clearly communicate complex technical issues, status updates, and resolutions to customers with varying levels of expertise
Build longterm customer trust through professionalism, ownership, and consistent followthrough
Platform, Infrastructure & Environment Support
Support and troubleshoot Linuxbased infrastructure and cloud environments, including compute, storage, networking, and identity components
Operate and support OpenStackbased private or hybrid cloud platforms, including core services (Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Glance, Keystone, etc.)
Support OpenShift / Kubernetes platforms, including cluster operations, workload troubleshooting, networking, storage integration, and upgrades
Maintain availability, performance, and reliability of secure multitenant environments
Perform systemlevel diagnosis across infrastructure layers to identify root cause and remediation paths
Partner with internal platform and engineering teams to drive stability and performance improvements
HPC, Licensing & Performance Management
Monitor HPC cluster performance, job scheduling, throughput, and queue health
Identify and resolve HPC job performance issues, including scheduler configuration, resource contention, I/O bottlenecks, and memory constraints
Troubleshoot and resolve license availability, utilization, and checkout issues impacting customer workloads
Support distributed resource managers such as Slurm, LSF, SGE, or equivalent schedulers
Automation & Operational Efficiency
Design, develop, and maintain automation for recurring operational tasks, including:
Infrastructure and platform health monitoring
Capacity tracking and alerting
User provisioning and deprovisioning
License usage monitoring
Detection of abnormal system, container, or job behavior
Use Python, shell scripting, Perl, or similar tools to reduce manual effort and improve mean time to resolution (MTTR)
Apply AIassisted or agentic automation where appropriate to improve operational efficiency and customer experience
Security, Compliance & Operations
Operate and support systems containing ITARcontrolled and CUI data in compliance with regulatory and corporate requirements
Follow documented security, access control, auditing, and change management procedures
Participate in incident response, postincident root cause analysis, and corrective action planning
Create and maintain runbooks, knowledge base articles, and customerfacing documentation
Required Qualifications
Technical Skills
Strong handson experience with Linux system administration and troubleshooting
Broad infrastructure experience, including compute, storage, networking, and identity services
Experience operating and supporting OpenStack and/or OpenShift (Kubernetes) environments
Experience supporting HPC or largescale compute environments
Proficiency in Python, shell scripting, Perl, or similar automationfocused languages
Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting platforms
Familiarity with license management systems (e.g., FlexNet / FLEXlm or equivalent)
Customer Service & Professional Skills
Demonstrated ability to deliver excellent customer service in a technical support, SRE, or infrastructure operations role
Strong sense of ownership and urgency when addressing customerimpacting issues
Ability to balance deep technical problemsolving with clear, customerfriendly communication
Highly organized and able to manage multiple concurrent customer issues
Security & Compliance
Preferred Qualifications
Experience supporting EDA, semiconductor, or silicon design environments
Experience with cloudbased or onprem HPC platforms (private, public, or hybrid)
Strong background in infrastructure operations, SRE, or platform engineering roles
Experience with configuration management or infrastructureascode tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform)
Experience applying AIassisted automation in production operations or support contexts
Education
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
The annual salary range for California is $136,500 to $253,500. You may also be eligible to receive incentive compensation: bonus, equity, and benefits. Sales positions generally offer a competitive On Target Earnings (OTE) incentive compensation structure. Please note that the salary range is a guideline and compensation may vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies and work location. Our benefits programs include: paid vacation and paid holidays, 401(k) plan with employer match, employee stock purchase plan, a variety of medical, dental and vision plan options, and more.
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