ID: ITM-1
Description
As IT Manager, you will be the technical and strategic owner of Semidynamics’ IT ecosystem.
This is a hands-on leadership role, combining architecture, operations, and team leadership.
You will ensure that our infrastructure—from HPC compute farms to cloud and corporate
IT—acts as a competitive advantage for our engineering teams.
You will support approximately 150 highly technical users working on cutting-edge silicon design
and verification, operating across on-premise HPC, colocation facilities, and cloud platforms.
Key Responsibilities
Team Leadership & IT Strategy
Infrastructure & HPC Operations
Engineering Enablement
IT Operations & Security
Why Join Semidynamics?
This is a hands-on leadership role, combining architecture, operations, and team leadership.
You will ensure that our infrastructure—from HPC compute farms to cloud and corporate
IT—acts as a competitive advantage for our engineering teams.
You will support approximately 150 highly technical users working on cutting-edge silicon design
and verification, operating across on-premise HPC, colocation facilities, and cloud platforms.
Key Responsibilities
Team Leadership & IT Strategy
- Lead, mentor, and grow a small, highly skilled IT team
- Define and execute the company’s IT roadmap aligned with business and engineering goals
- Manage IT budgets, vendors, contracts, and procurement
- Own and oversee internal tools and business-critical applications
- Act as the main liaison between engineering, operations, and management
- Coordinate and support corporate website and internal systems development
Infrastructure & HPC Operations
- Own and evolve a hybrid infrastructure spanning:
- On-premise and colocation HPC clusters used to run EDA tools Cloud platforms (Hetzner and others) used to run EDA tools
- Manage a Rocky Linux / RHEL-based compute farm orchestrated with SLURM
- Design, operate, and scale distributed storage systems (e.g., Ceph)
- Ensure high availability, performance, and security across compute, storage, and
- networking
- Implement and maintain backup, recovery, and disaster-recovery strategies
- Drive automation using Ansible, Python, and Bash
Engineering Enablement
- Partner closely with silicon design and verification teams to optimize workflows
- Operate and scale self-hosted GitLab and GitLab CI/CD
- Manage EDA tool licensing, deployments, and integrations
- Support custom Python-based engineering tools and internal platforms
- Evaluate and introduce new technologies to improve productivity and reliability
IT Operations & Security
- Oversee day-to-day IT operations and user support
- Manage user devices, networking, and core services (DNS, DHCP, NFS, etc.)
- Own authentication and identity systems (FreeIPA, Keycloak, OAuth2)
- Define and enforce security policies and best practices
- Ensure compliance with internal security, data protection, and operational standards
Why Join Semidynamics?
- Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits
- A chance to design and run the infrastructure behind world-class silicon engineering
- Work in a deeply technical, collaborative, and engineering-driven culture
- A key leadership role with real impact on how the company builds chips
Requirements
- Proven experience as an IT Manager or Senior Systems Engineer, ideally in semiconductor, EDA, or HPC environments
- Deep expertise in RHEL-based Linux systems (Rocky Linux, RHEL, CentOS)
- Strong experience with distributed storage systems (e.g., Ceph)
- Hands-on experience running self-hosted GitLab and CI/CD runner fleets
- Strong scripting and automation skills (Python and Bash)
- Experience with Ansible and infrastructure-as-code
- Solid understanding of core network services and protocols
- Ability to lead technical projects and manage a small team
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and communication skills
Nice to Have
- Experience with HPC workload managers (SLURM, LSF, SGE)
- Familiarity with EDA toolchains (Synopsys, Cadence, Siemens)
- Experience with Mikrotik and UniFi networking equipment
- Experience managing hybrid infrastructures (on-premise + cloud)
- Strong background in IT security best practices