As the IT Manager, you'll be the strategic and technical leader for IT operations. This hands-on role involves leading and mentoring a small team, plus direct contribution to architecture, maintenance, and optimization. You'll bridge engineering needs and technology, ensuring infrastructure is a competitive advantage. You'll manage a hybrid environment: an HPC farm, cloud resources, and essential services for ~150 technical users.
What You'll Do
- Team Leadership & Strategy: Lead, mentor, and grow the IT team;
develop a long-term IT roadmap aligned with company goals;
manage budget, vendors,and procurement;
manage and oversee internal tools and support applications development, liaise between stakeholders to direct website development;
- Infrastructure & HPC Management: Own our hybrid-cloud, RHEL-based (Rocky Linux) compute farm (SLURM-managed);
ensure high availability, performance, and security of servers, storage, and networking (office, colocation, Hetzner cloud);
drive automation with Ansible, Python, and Bash. Responsible for proper backup strategy and disaster recovery plans.
- Engineering Enablement: Partner with silicon design/verification engineers to optimize IT for their workflows;
manage GitLab andGitLab CI/CD environment, manage licensing, deployment, and support of EDA tools and custom Python tooling;
evaluate new technologies for productivity.
- IT Operations & Support: Oversee IT support;
manage user devices, network services (DNS, DHCP, NFS) and collaboration tools;
knowledge of authentication stack and user management (freeIPA, Keycloak, OAuth2), develop security policies, data backup, and disaster recovery plans.
What You'll Bring (Qualifications)
Required:
- Proven IT management/senior systems engineering experience, ideally in semiconductor, EDA, or HPC environments.
- Deep expertise in RHEL-based Linux systems administration (Rocky Linux, RHEL, CentOS).
- Strong scripting/automation skills: Python and Bash.
- Hands-on experience with Ansible.
- Experience managing core network services/protocols.
- Ability to lead technical projects and manage a small team.
- Excellent problem-solving skills;
ability to thrivein a fast-paced environment.
Bonus Points:
- Direct experience with HPC workload managers (SLURM, LSF, SGE).
- Direct experience in administering GitLab self-hosted instances.
- Familiarity with EDA toolchain IT requirements (Synopsys, Cadence, Siemens).
- Familiarity with Mikrotik and UniFi network equipment.
- Experience managing hybrid infrastructure (on-premise, cloud).
- Strong understanding of IT security best practices.
Why Join Us?
- Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits.
- Opportunity to build and shape IT infrastructure for industry-leading silicon design.
- Deeply technical, collaborative environment with a strong engineering culture.
- Key leadership role with significant company impact.
If you are a technology leader passionate about building and running the engine for cutting-edge engineering, we'd love to hear from you.
📌 Administrador/A Sistemas Y Seguridad
🏢 ATN - Soluciones IT
📍 Barcelona