Staff Systems Engineer (Infrastructure Automation & Virtualization)

At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.

Cadence is a pivotal leader in electronic design, building upon more than 30 years of computational software expertise. The company applies its underlying Intelligent System Design strategy to deliver software, hardware and IP that turn design concepts into reality.

Cadence customers are the world’s most innovative companies, delivering extraordinary electronic products from chips to boards to systems for the most dynamic market applications including consumer, hyperscale computing, 5G communications, automotive, aerospace industrial and health.

At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.Job Title: Staff Systems Engineer

Location: Cork or Dublin, Ireland

Reports to: Sr IT Architect

Job Overview:

As a Staff Systems Engineer within our Infrastructure team, you will design, build, and maintain the automation frameworks and virtualization platforms that underpin Cadence's global engineering environment. Your work directly improves the reliability, scalability, and security of critical on-premises and hybrid cloud infrastructure that thousands of engineers depend on every day.

This is a hands-on individual contributor role at the intersection of infrastructure automation, cloud integration, and platform engineering - where you will collaborate closely with senior architects while mentoring the next generation of infrastructure engineers.

You will join a collaborative, globally distributed Infrastructure team that partners closely with Platform Engineering, Security, and Cloud Architecture stakeholders. The team operates with a GitOps-first mindset and a strong culture of peer review, documentation, and continuous improvement.

Primary tooling includes: Terraform, Ansible, Python, GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions, Nutanix Prism, VMware vSphere, Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog. Cloud environments span AWS and Azure.

Some flexibility in working hours may be required for collaboration with global teams.

Job Responsibilities:

• Design and maintain infrastructure-as-code (IaC) solutions using Terraform and Ansible to automate provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management of compute, storage, and networking resources across multi-environment deployments.
• Write and maintain Python and Bash automation scripts that reduce manual operational overhead, integrate tooling across the stack, and support CI/CD pipeline functionality.
• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or equivalent tooling to automate infrastructure deployments, enforce policy-as-code, and streamline testing and validation workflows.