Enterprise Solution Architect

The Engineering Excellence Group drives innovation velocity and enterprise infrastructure automation, which are critical elements of our growth and scaling strategy. This team is chartered to drive significant productivity, robustness, agility, and time-to-market advantage in the creation of Synopsys products and solutions. The group also leads corporate infrastructure transformation as we continue to drive IT operations leadership and invest in the next wave of disruptive technologies.

Key Roles & Responsibilities

• Facilitate the evaluation and selection of new products and services in collaboration with the business and IT.
• Define and document best practices and strategies regarding IT infrastructure maintenance.
• Evaluate existing systems and infrastructure to identify areas for improvement and optimization.
• Maintain vulnerability management processes and policies using a risk-based priority methodology.
• Collaborate with the various teams and platform owners on all vulnerability management and reporting.
• Ensure efficient resource utilization and continuously improve processes through automation.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand their requirements and provide technical expertise.
• Mentor and coach the wider Solution and Technical Architecture teams.
• Strategically apply architectural and infrastructure disciplines to solve business problems.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues related to IT engineering infrastructure and applications such as IBM LSF.
• Recommend solutions and best practices in LSF compute farms 

Required Skills

• Extensive experience with a wide range of infrastructure technologies, such as but not limited to Linux, Windows, High-performance computing such as IBM LSF, storage platforms, networking, cloud computing, cloud services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, etc.), virtualization, OpenStack, containerization, and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong knowledge and experience in Information Architecture, IT Service Management, IT Operations Management, Solution Architecture.
• Proficiency in defining and refining the Architectural strategy and governance activities.
• In-depth knowledge about resource utilization and optimization
• Demonstrated success in leading engineering teams across different domains, such as infrastructure, SRE, or similar areas.
• Strong technical foundation, with the ability to engage deeply on technical topics related to cloud infrastructure, software reliability, and operational practices.
• Proven experience in IT operations, DevOps, or a similar role, with increasing levels of responsibility.
• Ability to do technical design and documentation

Experience & Education

• Masters/bachelor’s degree with minimum of 12+ years of experience in IT infrastructure & operations.
• 12 - 15 years of experience with infrastructure architecture, compute farm design, implementation, and support
• 8+ years of strong IBM LSF solutions architecture in large corporations.
• 12+ years of experience with designing and implementing IT infrastructure technologies such as servers, storage, networking, cloud, and virtualization. You should be able to design, document and implement infrastructure solutions that are scalable, reliable, and secure.
• 12+ years working hands on as an infrastructure technical engineer.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Team leading and building skills
• Have excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work through issues and challenges.

Inclusion and Diversity are important to us. Synopsys considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, military veteran status, or disability.