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A majority of the world’s microchips receive their critical lithographic patterning in machines made by ASML. In addition ASML produces metrology tools and advanced applications to analyze and optimize \nthe performance of the customer production process.\nSector and department information\nWithin ASML, the sector Development and Engineering (D&E) is responsible for the specification, design, integration, qualification, and sustaining of all ASML products. Taking advantage of customer and manufacturing proximity, the D&E Applications of the ASML Center of Excellence (ACE) is located in Linkou, Taiwan\nPosition in the Organization\nThe holder of the position reports to the Manager of ACE D&E in BL Apps\nJob Mission\nParticipate in the development of our distributed data and compute platform infrastructure (on premise cloud solution). Be accurate, be precise and own the specification, design and implementation of features and fixes. Onboard, integrate and configure open source or other packages that support the development of semiconductor process tuning applications on the ASML platform.\nTake initiatives in reducing manual actions for install & upgrade, resolve structural stability issues and design automated tests suites to qualify both design and system setup on customer site. Investigate & solve issues, identify root cause, containment, corrective and preventive actions, and work with customer teams to support TSMC, Micron, Samsung, China and many others.\nGeographical Workplace\nACE (ASML Taiwan, Linkou). Travel to the customer sites or the development headquarters (HQ) in the Netherlands for on-the-job training may be needed as part of the assignment\nJob Description\nYou will be working in the virtual compute platform (VCP) and ensure the platform can host analytics applications with the uptime expectation of 4 nine’s (99.99%) in the semiconductor factories of our customers.\nThe platform is currently developed based on Kubernetes and DC/OS and migration from DC/OS to Kubernetes is in-progress. We develop the platform aspects in our team. Scheduling of resources, containerization, fail-over and data collection from scanner and measurement devices inside the fab.\nInstallations and upgrades are automated with Ansible and Python. 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.\nResponsibilities of this role:\nDevelop and deliver new, key features that have high customer impact and help improve the operation efficiency of customer teams (a.k.a. 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