Senior Container Platform DevOps Engineer

You will be working in the virtual compute platform (VCP). This platform is developed inside ASML to host compute and analytics applications that aim to improve the yield in the semiconductor factories of their customers. Be part of this compute platform that is one of the main pillars under the production of the next generation microchips of their customers: Apple, Samsung, Intel, TSMC and many others. These applications take data from ASML equipment. They combine this data to real time production corrections. The corrections are sent back to the ASML production equipment. Failure of the platform has high impact. It would mean failure of the customers production facility.

The on-premise platform is currently developed based on DC/OS. They are in the process of migrating to Kubernetes. They develop the platform aspects in their own team. Scheduling of resources, containerization, fail-over and data collection from scanner and measurement devices inside the fab. We have an uptime expectation of 4 nine’s. You build the platform aspects from zero, you need to think about several principles to run Kubernetes in a.o. production & airgapped environments; Infrastructure as Code principles, Network Strategy, Monitoring, RBAC, GitOps Deployments, Secret Management etc.

Installations and upgrades are automated with Ansible. 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. Hyperconverged CEPH storage is one of the candidates to replace the HDP stack. We are open to your underpinned input on the suitability of CEPH or other stable alternatives for these technologies where these better suit the ASML business case.

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 3 – 4 infra teams, 20-30 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.

Environment: Kubernetes, Ansible, Vault, CEPH, Python, Linux (RHEL, RHEV), Docker, MongoDB,, Spark, Kafka, Bamboo, Azure DevOps, Artifactory, life-cycle management.

ASML is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of semiconductor-chip-making equipment. A majority of the world’s microchips receive their critical lithographic patterning in machines made by ASML. ASML also produces metrology tools and advanced applications to analyze and optimize the performance of the customer production process. You can be a part of the movement that will bring the next generation of chips to the world.

You will be employed by YER and seconded to ASML. We offer:

• Permanent employment
• Excellent remuneration
• 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

Build the Kubernetes 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 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. You are a senior engineer able to pull your own weight and train and support others.

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.

Your responsibilities:

• Help application developers to understand the infrastructure / cluster / system
• Build the (high secure) platform from zero with maximum automation
• Implement the product features with the team
• Automate tests to the implemented features
• Increase platform reliability by improving system resilience (bug-fixing and beyond) 

Education and experience

Master or Bachelor in computer science or related field.

• You like to excel on the intersection of the software & infrastructure world.
• You are a Senior Software/Infrastructure Developer delivering platform *infrastructure-as-code* for more than 6 years
• You are at home in the Linux landscape (ours is RHEL-based)
• Strong knowledge of *infrastructure-as-code* landscape (*Ansible*, Puppet, Chef, Salt) -- we use Ansible
• *Platform-thinking* mindset: our deliveries have a large community of different stakeholders, and you will contribute on making it smooth, resilient, clean
• Past proven experience with Kubernetes (NOT as an USER but you OWN the builds, designs and wonderful creations)
• Pythonista (true coding legend)
• You bring a very structured way of working for yourself and are able to instill that mindset into the team
• You are not afraid to experiment, collaborate, and share ideas