About Applied Materials

Applied Materials is the leader in materials engineering solutions used to produce virtually every new chip and advanced display in the world. Our expertise in modifying materials at atomic levels and on an industrial scale enables customers to transform possibilities into reality. At Applied Materials, our innovations make possible the technology shaping the future.

Our Team

EIT (Engineering IT) is part of GIS (Global Information Systems), the backbone to deliver various digital solutions to the engineering business groups (internal customers) of Applied Materials.

Solutions include hardware, software and business process development and deployment.

Some of the key enterprise business process areas where EIT focuses are – Product Life Cycle (PLC), Product Life Cycle management (PLM), Computer Aided Design (CAD), Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) and DevOps in various engineering domains such as mechanical, electrical, electronics, simulation and systems engineering software to support the Applied Materials engineering community.

Key strengths of this organization are people with rich industrial experience working with internal customers (business organization) to support IT requirements from requirements to the day-to-day support of Applied Materials engineering business groups globally.

Your Opportunity

As a DevSecOps Sr Solutions Architect at Applied Materials within the Engineering IT team, you are an integral part of a team that works to develop high-quality DevSecOps solutions for various software applications on modern cloud-based technologies. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for enabling DevSecops solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of project goals.

This job is located onsite at our Austin, TX campus

Key roles and responsibilities

• Understanding the customer: This involves conducting continuous research to understand the customer's needs, preferences, and behaviors. This understanding can then be used to shape the business's solution offerings, strategic roadmap and development, and operations strategies.

• Soliciting and acting on customer feedback: This involves regularly gathering feedback from customers and using this feedback to improve the product and the overall customer experience.

• Customer Engagement Management: Negotiate with customers to design solutions to address complex cross functional needs. Identifies BKM’s for integrated solution design and standards; Keeps abreast of technologies in the market and preform technology evaluations, as required. Works with multiple vendors for high quality resources and competitiveness

• Define and Execute DevSecOps Strategy & Roadmap Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of secure infrastructure, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations.

• Continuous Improvement: Stay up to date with the latest industry trends and advancements in DevSecOps technology. identify opportunities for optimization and enhancement. Collaborate with vendors, partners, and internal stakeholders to evaluate and implement new features, upgrades, and integrations.

• Plan and manage projects to ensure effective and efficient execution in line with established processes and guidelines and guardrails of scope, timeline, budget, and quality.

Additional Job Details

• Develop a continuous integration and continuous delivery pipeline.

• Continue to evaluate new technologies and update/develop standard practices.

• Design, lead and build an automated deployment toolset and infrastructure including environments, code management, CI and CD process.

• Help define and set best practices for code management, build, deploy and release across multiple teams/products in CI /CD model.

• Work closely with the software development team and other functional groups to develop and provide a robust, flexible, and scalable platform.

• Build, maintain, and scale infrastructure for Production, QA, and Dev environments, Write and maintain infrastructure documentation.

• Support the team in best practices for new service design and development.

• Develop automation to deploy instances quickly and rapidly from hardened images.

• Using monitoring tools to find problems, resolve and/or escalate to development and ensure that we exceed our SLAs.

• Build and manage development and testing environments, assisting developers in debugging application issues using tools.

• Participate in the building of tools and processes to support the infrastructure.

• Operate the platform within our security and privacy guidelines.

• Establish standards, solution, and security frameworks.

• Ability to conduct technical feasibility, design technical solution independently, recommend or suggest preferred technical solution.

• The holistic understanding of DevSecOps Principle and Practices Analyzing, executing, streamlining, and architecting overall, comprehensive, and efficient DevSecOps practices.

• Good understanding on Cloud native offerings and services Security aspects of application and infrastructure

Ideal Candidate

• As a strategic leader, you'll excel in making critical technical decisions, crafting roadmaps and vision that drive the success of ground-breaking projects in application to Software Projects

• Strong understanding of DevSecOps concepts, processes, and best practices.

• Excellent customer engagement and relationship management skills.

• Strong leadership and team management abilities.

• Solid troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

• Strong communication and presentation skills.

• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

• Proactive and self-motivated with the ability to work independently.

Qualifications

• Proven experience at guiding teams through the orchestration of large, high-impact projects, building large scale distributed systems.

• Proven experience in guiding Software organizations with most significant technical and product challenges.

• Bachelor’s +15 years or master’s +10 years or PhD +10 years or equivalent experience.

• 5-10 years of industrial experience

• 5-10 years of leadership roles related experience

Additional Job Description

• Develop a continuous integration and continuous delivery pipeline.

• Continue to evaluate new technologies and update/develop standard practices.

• Design, lead and build an automated deployment toolset and infrastructure including environments, code management, CI and CD process.

• Help define and set best practices for code management, build, deploy and release across multiple teams/products in CI /CD model.

• Work closely with the software development team and other functional groups to develop and provide a robust, flexible, and scalable platform.

• Build, maintain, and scale infrastructure for Production, QA, and Dev environments, Write and maintain infrastructure documentation.

• Support the team in best practices for new service design and development.

• Develop automation to deploy instances quickly and rapidly from hardened images.

• Using monitoring tools to find problems, resolve and/or escalate to development and ensure that we exceed our SLAs.

• Build and manage development and testing environments, assisting developers in debugging application issues using tools.

• Participate in the building of tools and processes to support the infrastructure.

• Operate the platform within our security and privacy guidelines.

• Establish standards, solution, and security frameworks.

• Ability to conduct technical feasibility, design technical solution independently, recommend or suggest preferred technical solution.

• The holistic understanding of DevSecOps Principle and Practices Analyzing, executing, streamlining, and architecting overall, comprehensive, and efficient DevSecOps practices.

• Good understanding on Cloud native offerings and services Security aspects of application and infrastructure

Qualifications

Education:

Bachelor's Degree (Required)

Skills:

DevSecOps

Certifications:

Languages:

Years of Experience:

7 - 10 Years

Work Experience:

Additional Information

Time Type:

Full time

Employee Type:

Assignee / Regular

Travel:

Relocation Eligible:

No

U.S. Salary Range:

$140,000.00 - $192,500.00

The salary offered to a selected candidate will be based on multiple factors including location, hire grade, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and with consideration of internal equity of our current team members. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, candidates may be eligible for other forms of compensation such as participation in a bonus and a stock award program, as applicable.

For all sales roles, the posted salary range is the Target Total Cash (TTC) range for the role, which is the sum of base salary and target bonus amount at 100% goal achievement.

Applied Materials is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.