Platform DevOps Air-gapped PAAS - ASML Netherlands B.V.

Build the platform that the chip factories can depend on. You don’t write obscure scripts that people will forget exist. Instead, you’ll contribute to the platform that is essential to the chip manufacturers and in turn essential for the coming generations of many semiconductor based devices. The platform itself consists of a scalable and distributed data and compute infrastructure. The scale and complexity of the platform gives everyone involved the opportunity to keep learning new things. There will be senior engineers to coach and mentor you. Be part of this compute platform that is one of the main pillars under the production of the next generation microchips of Apple, Samsung and many others

You will be working at Business Line Applications. The BL Apps develops Analytics & Control solutions that improve the accuracy of performance metrics (such as overlay, focus, critical dimension) as measured on the end product of a fab process (wafers with chip structures). You will work on the platform underneath these processing algorithms, a distributed computing platform. This platform will provide value to ASML customers all over the world, making sure the chips of the next generation are produces efficiently and with the highest quality. There are 4 infra teams, 40+ engineers, Product Owners and Scrum Masters working on the platform layers. The application development teams that develop the business critical applications consist of 15-25 teams. As such you’ll be working in a large organizations and follow the ASML Development Model (ADM) which is in many ways comparable to ‘Scaled Agile’.

ASML is a successful Dutch high-tech enterprise that produces complex lithography systems used by chip manufacturers in the production of integrated circuits. ASML is at the cutting edge of this technology and delivers systems to all the world's leading chip manufacturers. ASML's employees are among the most creative talents in the fields of physics, mathematics, chemistry, mechanical engineering and software. Every day they collaborate in close-knit multidisciplinary teams in which members listen to and learn from one another and exchange ideas. It is the ideal environment for professional development and personal growth. ASML is headquartered in Veldhoven, the Netherlands.

You will be employed by YER and seconded to our client. The offer includes:

• Good employee benefits
• Challenging assignments
• Excellent guidance from your consultant and YER's back office
• Development opportunities, including the YER Talent Development Programme with a personal coach
• Intensive support for international candidates (including Dutch lessons, tax-return and accommodation assistance)
• Cooperative and results and relationship-driven
• Friendly atmosphere and open culture
• Community/network with other technology professionals from a variety of multinationals
• Events and master classes with interesting speakers and attractive companies

You will be working in the virtual compute platform (VCP) teams. This platform is developed inside ASML to host compute and analytics applications that aim to improve the yield in the semiconductor factories of ASML’s customers WW. These applications take data from ASML equipment. They combine this data to real time production corrections and equipment process diagnostics. Failure of the platform has high impact. It would mean failure of the customers (tsmc, Samsung, Intel etc.) production facility.

The current platform generation is Kubernetes based, in field we have legacy DC/OS. We develop the platform layers in our team. These control e.g. scheduling of resources, containerization, messaging, fail-over and data collection. You build a deep understanding of these mostly open source software packages and understand how to integrate and best configure them given the needs of the application teams.

You will work in a 6-10 person team that e.g. builds the (Python, Ansible and Go) based tooling to package artifacts into release bundles. You might become the specialist in configuring and troubleshooting open source integrations. The release you participate in are shipped to our customers to be deployed to their internal air-gapped on-premise data centers. As such you don’t work on ‘1 platform’ installation but on ‘many installations’. First line support is in the hands of a separate team but issues that can’t be solved there end up with your team for analysis and structural solution designs. As such you truly need to have a mix of ‘Operational’ when looking at system issues and ‘Development/Code/Architecture/Design’ when you work on the fix that will remove the issue for all worldwide installed base in a structural manner. We have an uptime expectation of 4 nine’s. The bar is high! 

The platform is equipped with Splunk for collecting log files and publication of open source and ASML application KPI’s. Maintenance or introduction KPI’s via Splunk can be part of your daily work. Installations and upgrades are automated with Ansible and Python scripts. Other technologies you may encounter are Spark for data processing, Kafka for notifications and high volume data ingestion. Hadoop and HBASE are used for data storage.

Your responsibilities:

• Implement the product features with the team
• Automate tests to the implemented features
• Help application developers to understand the infrastructure / cluster / system
• Increase platform reliability by improving system resilience (bug-fixing and beyond)
• Analyze field issues and design both containment and structural solutions
• Maintain Azure pipelines used in house to evaluate hundreds of installs a day in many different configs
• Ability to write professional requirements/design/test design documentation

Education

Master or Bachelor in computer science or related field.

Profile

• Engineer with 3-10 years of experience (bachelor or master), we look at your profile and can match the assignment given strong personal skills and eager mindset.
• Technical, creative and open-minded who is eager to learn and not afraid of taking initiative
• Familiar with at least one scripting language (Python preferred)
• Familiar / proficient with Linux environment
• Some knowledge of Ansible playbooks and programming
• Familiar with git
• Ability to learn quick
• Fan of automation
• worked with Microsoft Azure
• Prior experience of working in Agile environment
• Open to travel to customer location when needed (max 10%)
• No fear of experimentation
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipeline design and maintenance

Personal skills

• You like to solve problems (permanently)
• You are open to Challenges
• You think outside the box
• You can look through the customer eyes
• You automate
• You have a positive attitude