Cloud Support Engineer
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“Cloud Support Engineer at Cloud Support Engineer. Skills: Linux, OpenStack, OpenShift, HPC. Serve as primary technical support contact. Deliver timely, responsive, high-quality support”
What You'll Achieve.
delivering an exceptional customer experience; customer satisfaction, trust, and confidence in the service; drive stability and performance improvements; reduce manual effort and improve mean time to resolution (MTTR); improve operational efficiency and customer experience
Industry & Context.
deep technical problem-solving; system-level diagnosis; root cause identification; remediation path identification
Ability to work with export-restricted data (ITAR/CUI), U. S. Person status or eligibility
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Linux system administration and troubleshooting, compute, storage, networking, and identity services, OpenStack and/or OpenShift (Kubernetes) environments, HPC or large-scale compute environments, Python, shell scripting, Perl, or similar automation-focused languages, monitoring, logging, and alerting platforms, license management systems, excellent customer service in a technical support, SRE, or infrastructure operations role, sense of ownership and urgency when addressing customer-impacting issues, Ability to balance deep technical problem-solving with clear, customer-friendly communication, Highly organized and able to manage multiple concurrent customer issues, Ability to work with export-restricted data (ITAR/CUI), U. S. Person status or eligibility
Nice to Have
Experience supporting EDA, semiconductor, or silicon design environments, cloud-based or on-prem HPC platforms, infrastructure operations, SRE, or platform engineering roles, configuration management or infrastructure-as-code tools, AI-assisted automation in production operations or support contexts
What You'll Do.
Serve as primary technical support contact
anticipate customer needs
Communicate complex technical issues
Build long-term customer trust
Support and troubleshoot Linux infrastructure
Operate and support OpenStack platforms
Support OpenShift / Kubernetes platforms
Maintain availability
Perform system-level diagnosis
Partner with internal teams
Monitor HPC cluster performance
Identify and resolve HPC job performance issues
Troubleshoot and resolve license issues
Support distributed resource managers
Operate and support ITAR-controlled data systems
Follow documented security procedures
Participate in incident response
Create and maintain runbooks
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with internal platform and engineering teams
Communication Scope
Clearly communicate complex technical issues, status updates, and resolutions to customers with varying levels of expertise; customer-friendly communication
Full Job Description
## **At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.** _**Job Summary**_ We are seeking a highly motivated candidate for the position of Cloud Support Engineer with a strong infrastructure background to support our secure, cloud‑based silicon chip design environments used by external customers for mission‑critical EDA, HPC, and containerized workloads. This role is customer‑facing and service‑oriented, requiring deep technical expertise across Linux, cloud infrastructure, and platform operations, along with a strong commitment to responsiveness, professionalism, and delivering an exceptional customer experience. This role is well‑suited for engineers with hands‑on experience operating OpenStack and/or OpenShift platforms, along with traditional infrastructure components such as compute, storage, networking, and identity services. Success is measured not only by technical outcomes, but by customer satisfaction, trust, and confidence in the service. This position involves working with export‑restricted data (ITAR/CUI) and supporting highly secure environments with stringent operational and compliance standards. **Key Responsibilities** **Customer Support & Service Excellence** * Serve as a primary technical support contact for external customers using secure cloud‑based silicon design and HPC platforms * Deliver timely, responsive, and high‑quality support, ensuring customer issues are acknowledged, communicated, and resolved effectively * Proactively minimize downtime, anticipate customer needs, and resolve issues before they impact workloads * Clearly communicate complex technical issues, status updates, and resolutions to customers with varying levels of expertise * Build long‑term customer trust through professionalism, ownership, and consistent follow‑through **Platform, Infrastructure & Environment Support** * Support and troubleshoot Linux‑based infrastructure and cloud environments, including comput
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