Description

Invent the future with us.

Ampere is a semiconductor design company for a new era, leading the future of computing by developing SoCs and platform solutions focused on high-performance, energy productive AI compute. As a pioneer in the new frontier of energy efficient high-performance computing, Ampere is part of the Softbank Group of companies driving sustainable AI compute for cloud, edge, and physical applications.

AI is showing up in essentially every part of the technology landscape, and we’re focused on delivering the performance, efficiency, and reliability those workloads require. Ampere is building compute silicon and platforms for AI applications spanning a broad range of industries. We focus on solving exciting challenges in areas such as robotics and automotive, among others, but the core of our work is enabling efficient AI at scale and across multiple application domains.

About The Role In this role, you will own the technical strategy, operating model, automation, validation, and continuous improvement of patching for a large Unix/Linux-based EDA and high-performance computing environment.

This role is responsible for building a repeatable, low-risk, evidence-based patching service across HPC farm support world class highly complex microprocessors, including RHEL compute nodes, virtual infrastructure, login servers, LSF infrastructure, RHEL IdM/IPA, storage-adjacent services, Perforce, MySQL, engineering tools, and supporting lab infrastructure.

The successful candidate will combine strong Linux systems expertise with large-scale automation, disciplined change management, vulnerability remediation, performance validation, and the ability to partner effectively with EDA/design engineering teams.

What You'll Achieve

Patching Program Leadership

- Establish and operate the enterprise Linux patching program, including policy, standards, operational procedures, RACI, SLAs, exception handling, and executive reporting.
- Lead a team of Linux Patching / Platform Engineers and coordinate cross-functional participation from Infrastructure, Security, Network, Storage, EDA Applications, LSF, DevOps, and Engineering teams.
- Define patch prioritization based on vulnerability severity, exploitability, CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV), asset criticality, exposure, compensating controls, and business impact.
- Establish standard and emergency patching paths with documented approval, testing, communication, rollback, and post-implementation review requirements.
- Ensure the program supports the SLA for patching.

Automation, Repositories, and Engineering Workflow

- Implement and operate a dev ops patch lifecycle which includes
- Vendor advisory / mirror intake
- Patch repository
- Development/test repository
- Production-approved repository

- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to create, test, approve, promote, deploy, verify, and roll back patch bundles.
- Integrate patch validation and promotion workflows with Jenkins and Git-based code-review/build processes where required.




- Develop and govern Ansible automation for RHEL and Ubuntu patch deployment, pre-checks, post-checks, reboots, service validation, evidence capture, and rollback actions.
- Establish secure internal package repository practices using Red Hat Satellite and/or equivalent RHEL content-management tooling, plus controlled Ubuntu/APT repositories where needed.
- Drive infrastructure-as-code, configuration-baseline, and configuration-drift management practices.
- Automate daily health checks across multiple LSF clusters and generate actionable operational and capacity-utilization reports.

EDA / HPC Validation

- Partner with stakeholders to define representative patch validation workloads.
- Establish and maintain different test cases and performance benchmarks.
- Own technical go/no-go criteria for promoting tested patch bundles to production.
- Validate IBM Spectrum LSF scheduler health after patching, including node lifecycle, job submission/execution, queue capacity, licensing, slot allocation, and utilization reporting.
- Support patching and validation of hybrid HPC / cloud-bursting environments, including AWS-hosted compute capacity where applicable.

Security, Compliance, and Reporting

- Monitor and assess vendor advisories, CVEs, Red Hat Security Advisories (RHSA), Ubuntu Security Notices (USN), IBM/LSF, Perforce, MySQL, virtualization, storage, and relevant EDA-tool advisories.
- Integrate vulnerability scanner findings, EDR status, CMDB data, SIEM logging, and asset criticality into remediation decisions.
- Produce management dashboards for patch compliance, SLA performance, critical vulnerability exposure, deployment success rate, failed-package rate, test pass rate, exception aging, and risk acceptance.
- Ensure patching evidence is retained for audits and supports NIST CSF, internal policy, customer, and contractual requirements.

About You

- B.Tech in Electronics Engineering or Computer Engineering with 8+ years, or M.Tech with 6+ years of experience
- 6+ years of progressive experience administering and engineering Linux environments, with significant experience in RHEL-based enterprise environments.
- 4+ years designing or leading patching, vulnerability remediation, configuration management, or platform reliability programs at scale.
- Strong hands-on experience with:
- RHEL, RPM/DNF/YUM, kernel lifecycle, repositories, and package dependency management.
- Red Hat Satellite, Foreman/Katello, or equivalent enterprise patch/content-management platforms.
- Ansible / Ansible Automation Platform, Git, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation.
- Linux troubleshooting, boot/reboot recovery, systemd, networking, DNS, NFS,



LDAP/FreeIPA/IdM, SSH, and performance analysis.

- Demonstrated experience managing Linux environments in large scale EDA environment.
- Experience with structured change management, emergency change procedures, rollback planning, and maintenance-window execution.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work directly with highly technical engineering users.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience supporting semiconductor, EDA, HPC, compute farm, simulation, or large build-farm environments.
- Experience with IBM Spectrum LSF or another workload scheduler.
- Support patching and validation of hybrid HPC / cloud-bursting environments, including AWS-hosted compute capacity where applicable.
- Experience with VNC tools, Perforce, MySQL, NFS/Isilon/NetApp, Xen/XOA, virtualization, and container platforms.
- Experience integrating patch management with vulnerability scanners, SIEM, EDR/XDR, Prometheus, ELK, Jira, or similar platforms.
- Security certifications such as CISSP, CISM, GIAC, RHCE, RHCA, or equivalent.
- Experience with NIST CSF, CIS Benchmarks, and Linux hardening standards.

What We’ll Offer At Ampere we believe in taking care of our employees and providing a competitive total rewards package that includes base pay, cash long-term incentive and comprehensive benefits.

Benefits Highlights Include

- Premium medical, dental, vision insurance, parental benefits including creche reimbursement, as well as a retirement plan, so that you can feel secure in your health, financial future and child care during work.
- Generous paid time off policy so that you can embrace a healthy work-life balance
- Fully catered lunch in our office along with a variety of healthy snacks, energizing coffee or tea, and refreshing drinks to keep you fueled and focused throughout the day.

And there is much more than compensation and benefits. At Ampere, we foster an inclusive culture that empowers our employees to do more and grow more. We are passionate about inventing industry leading cloud-native designs that contribute to a more sustainable future. We are excited to share more about our career opportunities with you through the interview process. We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

Ampere is an inclusive and equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, religion, age, veteran and/or military status, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, physical or mental disability, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law.

📌 HPC Systems Engineer, Linux Patching and Platform Reliability (Karnataka)
🏢 Ampere
📍 Karnataka