KLA—DevOps Engineer

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Description: To make electronics, you need chips, wafers, transistors, reticles, and... To make these, you must see, test and manufacture them at scale—faster and better than ever before. That's where KLA comes in. Whether you're early in your career or an experienced professional, you'll solve complex challenges, work alongside brilliant minds and help shape the future of technology. Group/Division The Semiconductor Products and Customers (Semi PC) business unit designs, builds and sells KLA’s product portfolio to help chip manufacturers meet high-quality standards for technologies like AI, data centers, automotive and electronic devices. Our inspection, metrology, and analytics systems detect and monitor defects across logic and memory chips, specialty semiconductors, wafers, reticles, advanced packaging, process equipment and materials. We also develop technologies for specialty processes, IC substrates, and PCB manufacturing, including etch and deposition, component inspection, and imaging and analytics. KLA's Central Engineering organization is made up of nine Centers of Excellence (CoEs) spanning disciplines like automation, motion control, sensors, platform design, and packaging. Each CoE contributes not only technical deliverables but also deep expertise, best practices, and advanced tools that elevate both what we build—and how we build it. What You'll Do In this role, you will play a key part in advancing business priorities by delivering high-impact work across your area of expertise. Company Overview KLA is a global leader in diversified electronics for the semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem. Virtually every electronic device in the world is produced using our technologies. No laptop, smartphone, wearable device, voice-controlled gadget, flexible screen, VR device, or smart car would have made it into your hands without us. KLA invents systems and solutions for the manufacturing of wafers and reticles, integrated circuits, packaging, printed circuit boards, and flat panel displays. The innovative ideas and devices that are advancing humanity all begin with inspiration, research, and development. KLA focuses more than average on innovation and invests 15% of sales back into R&D. Our expert teams of physicists, engineers, data scientists, and problem-solvers work together with the world's leading technology providers to accelerate the delivery of tomorrow's electronic devices. Life here is exciting, and our teams thrive on tackling really hard problems. There is never a dull moment with us. Job Description / Preferred Qualifications Responsibilities The selected DevOps Engineer will join a world-class engineering team responsible for designing, automating, and scaling the infrastructure, systems, and services that support KLA's software products and development ecosystem. This individual will play a key role in driving automation, infrastructure modernization, and CI/CD excellence while enabling engineering teams to deliver software safely, reliably, and efficiently at scale. The ideal candidate will possess strong expertise in AI Agents / Agentic AI Frameworks for DevOps practices/process, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), cloud technologies, container orchestration, and automation. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement scalable solutions, improve platform reliability, and establish engineering best practices across the software delivery lifecycle. Key Responsibilities Include: - Design, build, and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms. - Integrate AI capabilities into CI/CD pipelines for intelligent code review, deployment validation, root cause analysis and change impact assessment. - Build and maintain knowledge repositories, AI skills, prompts, and contextual data sources that improve the effectiveness of AI systems across the software development lifecycle. - Architect and manage cloud infrastructure using AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP), leveraging Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible. - Deploy, operate, and optimize containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm. - Automate operational and deployment processes using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar scripting languages. - Collaborate with software development, quality engineering, and infrastructure teams to accelerate software delivery and improve operational efficiency. - Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives. - Evaluate and implement modern DevOps solutions to enhance developer productivity and platform performance. - Contribute to architecture discussions, platform standardization, and engineering excellence initiatives across global teams. Minimum Qualifications Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field with 2-3 Hands-on experience with AI Agents / Agentic AI Frameworks for DevOps practices/processes About KLA We provide advanced inspection tools, metrology systems, process solutions, and computational analytics that make electronics possible, tackling complex challenges. From electron and photon optics to machine learning and data analytics, we seek perfection at the most fundamental level of matter in the universe. If you want to make electronics that push industries forward and make the world a better place, join us. Use of AI Statement At KLA, our interviews seek to understand your individual skills, problem-solving approach and authentic thinking. To ensure a fair and consistent evaluation, the use of AI, recording tools or other technologies to generate, suggest or provide responses during interviews—whether virtual or in person—is not permitted unless explicitly approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation or invited by the interviewer. Use of these tools may interfere with our ability to evaluate your individual qualifications and affect your candidacy. KLA is committed to advancing innovation through responsible AI, and we value candidates who share this mindset. We offer a competitive, family friendly total rewards package. We design our programs to reflect our commitment to an inclusive environment, while ensuring we provide benefits that meet the diverse needs of our employees. KLA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.