Infrastructure Architect

Company Overview:

MACOM designs and manufactures semiconductor products for Data Center, Telecommunication and Industrial and Defense applications. Headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts, MACOM has design centers and sales offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. MACOM is certified to the ISO9001 international quality standard and ISO14001 environmental management standard.

MACOM has more than 65 years of application expertise with multiple design centers, Si, GaAs and InP fabrication, manufacturing, assembly and test, and operational facilities throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. Click here to view our facilities. In addition, MACOM offers foundry services that represents a key core competency within our business.

MACOM sells and distributes products globally via a sales channel comprised of a direct field sales force, authorized sales representatives and leading industry distributors. Our sales team is trained across all of our products to give our customers insights into our entire portfolio.

Infrastructure Architect

The IT department at MACOM is looking to hire an Infrastructure Architect to be an integral part of the Infrastructure team. An eligible candidate needs to be passionate about technology and know-how to meet infrastructure and business needs best. The Infrastructure Architect will utilize and maintain existing technologies along with establishing effective processes to provide the highest levels of system availability. An outgoing and can-do attitude is essential to complement the rest of IT.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Managing and maintaining the company's IT server and storage infrastructure.

• Monitoring and troubleshooting servers and applications; Working closely with 3rd party support vendors.

• Deploying and configuring server applications and tools.

• Build and deploy both physical and virtual servers for production and non-production environments.

• Break-fix and troubleshooting for Server, Storage and network (optional ) hardware

• Collaborating with developers and other members of the IT team.

• Ensuring the reliability of those systems.

• Evaluate, develop, and implement processes and procedures for streamlining and standardizing the server and storage environments.

• Escalation point for SysOps L3 IT incidents and helpdesk tickets

• Occasional Travel to MACOM sites for IT project support

Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related discipline.

• At least 7 years of professional relevant in-field experience working onsite at a data center and/or a System Administrator role.

• Knowledge of Windows and Linux operating systems.

• Knowledge of Active Directory, DNS, DHCP; Comfortable with basic networking.

• Knowledge of Dell server hardware. Including RAID storage configurations, memory, and chassis expansions and troubleshooting.

• Knowledge of scripting language (Powershell, BASH, Python, etc.).

• Managing and scheduling maintenance and configuration changes.

• Knowledge of VMware/ESXi and Nutanix.

• Storage administration experience.

• Certifications in relevant technologies.

• Hands-on experience with installation of Servers, switches, filers in server rooms/data centers.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Demonstrates strong work ethic.

• Ability to work independently and in teams reaching high levels of productivity.

• Because this position is part of a business unit that contracts with the U.S. government, qualified candidates must be a U.S. Citizen or U.S. Permanent Resident.

Other Special Skills that would be a plus:

• Experience working within the Semiconductor Industry

• Working experience with Networking and Security.

EEO:

MACOM is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a diverse workforce. MACOM will not discriminate against any worker or job applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy, disability, genetic information, veteran status, military obligations, or membership in any other category protected under applicable law.

Reasonable Accommodation:

MACOM is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you have a disability and are in need of a reasonable accommodation with respect to any part of the application process please call +1-978-656-2500 or email HR_Ops@MACOM.com. Provide your name, phone number and the position title and location in which you are interested, and nature of accommodation needed, and we will get back to you. We also work with current employees who request or need reasonable accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of their jobs.