Lead DevOps Platform Engineer

<strong class="jdheading"></strong><br><br><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>ADVANCE YOUR CAREER. ADVANCE THE WORLD. </strong></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">At AMD, we believe technology has the power to solve the world’s most important challenges. From advancing healthcare and scientific discovery to powering AI and the technologies people rely on every day, innovation at AMD is shaping the future. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Whether you’re designing next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, or bringing leading edge products to market, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger — technology that moves the world forward. Join us and, together, we’ll advance your career.</span></p> <br><strong class="jdheading"></strong><br><br><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-contrast="auto"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Lead DevOps Platform Engineer</span></span></strong><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":2,"335551620":2}"> </span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: windowtext;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>THE ROLE:</strong></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt; font-family: 'Segoe WPC'; font-size: 9.75pt; color: #202020;"><span style="background: #fafafd; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">We are seeking a hands-on Platform Engineer to build and operate the infrastructure foundations that enable engineering teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure products. This role will shape the internal developer platform across Kubernetes, observability, AI-enabled workloads, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt; font-family: 'Segoe WPC'; font-size: 9.75pt; color: #202020;"><span style="background: #fafafd; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">You will work closely with software, DevOps, security, and AI/ML teams to turn platform capabilities into a simple and dependable developer experience. The ideal candidate is comfortable moving between architecture decisions, production operations, automation, and practical enablement of partner teams.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:</strong></span></p><ul><li style="margin-top: 3pt; margin-bottom: 3pt; vertical-align: middle; color: #202020; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: #fafafd;">Design, build, and operate scalable Kubernetes-based platform capabilities for development, test, and production workloads.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 3pt; margin-bottom: 3pt; vertical-align: middle; color: #202020; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: #fafafd;">Create reusable infrastructure-as-code modules, patterns, and automated workflows using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Kustomize, or equivalent technologies.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 3pt; margin-bottom: 3pt; vertical-align: middle; color: #202020; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: #fafafd;">Develop and evolve platform observability: metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting, service-level objectives, and operational runbooks.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 3pt; margin-bottom: 3pt; vertical-align: middle; color: #202020; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: #fafafd;">Improve platform reliability, capacity management, security posture, and cost efficiency through automation and data-driven operational practices.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 3pt; margin-bottom: 3pt; vertical-align: middle; color: #202020; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: #fafafd;">Build the infrastructure required to deploy, operate, observe, and govern AI/ML workloads, including model-serving, GPU-enabled compute, data-access, and workload-isolation patterns where applicable.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 3pt; margin-bottom: 3pt; vertical-align: middle; color: #202020; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: #fafafd;">Enable self-service for product and engineering teams through well-designed platform APIs, templates, documentation, golden paths, and CI/CD integrations.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 3pt; margin-bottom: 3pt; vertical-align: middle; color: #202020; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: #fafafd;">Partner with application, security, infrastructure, and AI teams to define platform standards and remove delivery bottlenecks.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 3pt; margin-bottom: 3pt; vertical-align: middle; color: #202020; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: #fafafd;">Investigate complex production issues, lead root-cause analysis, and implement durable preventative improvements.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 3pt; margin-bottom: 3pt; vertical-align: middle; color: #202020; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: #fafafd;">Contribute to technical roadmaps, architecture reviews, and engineering standards for the platform.</span></li></ul><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:</strong></span></p><ul><li style="margin-top: 3pt; margin-bottom: 3pt; vertical-align: middle; color: #202020; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: #fafafd;">Experience designing internal developer platforms or large-scale shared infrastructure.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 3pt; margin-bottom: 3pt; vertical-align: middle; color: #202020; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: #fafafd;">Experience with Prometheus, Python, Bash, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Loki, Tempo, Elastic, Datadog, Splunk, or comparable observability systems.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 3pt; margin-bottom: 3pt; vertical-align: middle; color: #202020; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: #fafafd;">Experience with IBM LSF and Netapp Storage</span></li><li style="margin-top: 3pt; margin-bottom: 3pt; vertical-align: middle; color: #202020; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: #fafafd;">Experience with GitOps operating models.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 3pt; margin-bottom: 3pt; vertical-align: middle; color: #202020; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: #fafafd;">Experience supporting AI/ML infrastructure, model serving, GPU scheduling, Kubernetes operators, or AI workload orchestration.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 3pt; margin-bottom: 3pt; vertical-align: middle; color: #202020; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: #fafafd;">Knowledge of platform security practices, including identity and access management, secrets management, policy enforcement, image security, and supply-chain security.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 3pt; margin-bottom: 3pt; vertical-align: middle; color: #202020; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: #fafafd;">Experience with service mesh, API gateways, ingress, networking, or multi-cluster Kubernetes architectures.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 3pt; margin-bottom: 3pt; vertical-align: middle; color: #202020; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: #fafafd;">Demonstrated ownership of production systems and a bias toward automation, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 3pt; margin-bottom: 3pt; vertical-align: middle; color: #202020; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: #fafafd;">Semiconductor experience very helpful, EDA experience a plus.</span></li></ul><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt; font-family: 'Segoe WPC'; font-size: 9.75pt; color: #202020;"><span style="background: #fafafd; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Required Qualifications</span></p><ul style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;" type="disc"><li style="margin-top: 3pt; margin-bottom: 3pt; vertical-align: middle; color: #202020; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: #fafafd;">Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 3pt; margin-bottom: 3pt; vertical-align: middle; color: #202020; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: #fafafd;">6+ years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, SRE, cloud infrastructure, or platform engineering.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 3pt; margin-bottom: 3pt; vertical-align: middle; color: #202020; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: #fafafd;">Strong hands-on experience operating and automating Kubernetes environments.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 3pt; margin-bottom: 3pt; vertical-align: middle; color: #202020; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: #fafafd;">Experience with container technologies and deployment tooling, such as Docker, Helm, Kustomize, Argo CD, Flux, or similar.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 3pt; margin-bottom: 3pt; vertical-align: middle; color: #202020; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: #fafafd;">Experience implementing infrastructure as code using Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, Ansible, or comparable tools.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 3pt; margin-bottom: 3pt; vertical-align: middle; color: #202020; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: #fafafd;">Practical experience with observability platforms and concepts, including metrics, logging, distributed tracing, alerting, dashboards, and SLOs.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 3pt; margin-bottom: 3pt; vertical-align: middle; color: #202020; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: #fafafd;">Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language such as Python, Go, Bash, or TypeScript.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 3pt; margin-bottom: 3pt; vertical-align: middle; color: #202020; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: #fafafd;">Experience with CI/CD systems and automated software delivery practices.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 3pt; margin-bottom: 3pt; vertical-align: middle; color: #202020; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: #fafafd;">Strong troubleshooting skills across Linux, networking, containers, cloud or on-premise infrastructure, and distributed systems.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 3pt; margin-bottom: 3pt; vertical-align: middle; color: #202020; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: #fafafd;">Clear written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to work effectively across engineering disciplines.</span></li></ul><p style="margin: 0px;">#LI-SG2</p> <br><strong class="jdheading"></strong><br><br><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;">Benefits offered are described: </span></em><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;"><a href="https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/careers/benefits.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AMD benefits at a glance</a>.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;">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.</span></em></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;">AMD may use Artificial Intelligence to help screen, assess or select applicants for this position. AMD’s “Responsible AI Policy” is available <a href="https://www.amd.com/en/legal/responsible-ai-use-policy.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here.</a></span></em></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;"> </span></em></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;">This posting is for an existing vacancy.</span></em></span></p>