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.

IT Systems Engineer

We are seeking an individual with strong expertise in IT Infrastructure field. This role will be responsible for administration of and improving our *nix environment as well as provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems hardware and software and related infrastructure. Also, they need to participate in research and development to drive innovation and efficiency within IT infrastructure.

Primary Job Responsibilities:

• Manage MACOM's servers, infrastructure, and related services.
• Provide technical recommendations for services performance and reliability improvements.
• Provide technical leadership to Run function team.
• Handle day-to-day data center operations.

Roles and Responsibilities (not limited to):

• Installing, configuring, maintaining, performing upgrades and downgrades, troubleshooting, documenting for systems, servers, and infrastructure devices.
• Recommends and develops mission critical solutions; makes recommendations to address capacity constraints, performance limitation on wide range of technologies.
• Evaluate performance, monitor workloads, and analyze results to ensure optimal operations.
• Develop and improve upon operational procedures and standards.
• Lead/coordinate projects including new installations, upgrades, retrofits, etc.
• Enterprise business and engineering applications support

Required qualities / soft skills:

• Self-motivated, professional attitude, and logical decision-making ability.
• Strong, hands-on knowledge and experience with *nix. RHEL preferred.
• Intermediate to advanced Linux administration skills.
• Experience in configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet etc.
• Partner with business to gather requirements and ensure needs are being met.
• Ability to define physical and logical resources needed to complete a project and meet deadlines.
• Willing to travel.

Job Qualifications (Required):

• 8+ years related IT System Administration experience
• 10+ years of IT related experience
• Ability to work independently and in teams reaching high levels of productivity.
• Comfortable managing multiple tasks simultaneously
• Demonstrates strong work ethics.
• Due to ITAR Regulations, candidate must be a US Citizen or Permanent Resident

Other Special Skills (Optional):

• Relevant certifications
• Bachelor's or advanced degree desired but not required
• Experience working within the Semiconductor Industry a plus
• Contracts and vendor management.
• Exposure to Atlassian tools JIRA/Confluence

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.