Founding IT & Infrastructure Lead

Netpreme; Santa Clara, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus and equity

Health, dental, and vision

401(k) immediate vesting

Life, disability, and AD&D insurance

Fitness stipend

Generous PTO

Lunch stipend

AI tool access (Claude & ChatGPT)

Office perks: Santa Clara & Cambridge

Visa sponsorship & relocation

Collaborative culture

Job summary

Netpreme is seeking an IT & Infrastructure Lead to own and scale our systems, tools, and server environment as the first dedicated IT hire. This onsite role in Santa Clara, CA, will define standards, implement secure practices, and grow with the company.

You will lead IT operations and infrastructure, manage endpoint security, onboarding/offboarding, and DevOps-driven automation while collaborating across teams to support rapid growth in a semiconductor/AI space.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience across both IT operations and infrastructure/systems administration.
• Proficiency with Linux/Unix systems administration and networking fundamentals.
• Experience administering SaaS applications, identity and access management, endpoint security, and EDA tools.
• Ability to work independently and resourcefully as the owner of this function.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to support technical and non-technical colleagues effectively.

Responsibilities

• Administer and provision the company's core software stack, managing accounts, access, and licensing as the team scales.
• Lead employee onboarding and offboarding, including hardware provisioning, account creation, and access management across the full employee lifecycle.
• Own endpoint security and device management to maintain a secure, compliant fleet.
• Administer the company's networking and secure-access infrastructure (VPN/zero-trust networking).
• Serve as the primary point of contact for day-to-day IT support, and maintain internal documentation and standards.
• Manage Netpreme's colocation server environment, including provisioning, maintenance, monitoring, and uptime.
• Administer Linux/Unix systems and supporting infrastructure.
• Plan and scale the company's compute capacity as the team and workloads grow - forecasting requirements, adding capacity, and ensuring reliability.
• Apply a DevOps approach to infrastructure: automate repetitive processes, document systems thoroughly, and build for scale.

Skills

IT operations

Infrastructure administration

Endpoint security

Linux/Unix administration

Networking fundamentals

SaaS administration

Identity & access management

Independent work

Effective communication

Tools

VPN/zero-trust tooling

IAM tools

DevOps tooling

Job description

Netpreme is seeking an IT & Infrastructure Lead to own and scale our systems, tools, and server environment as the first dedicated IT hire. This onsite role in Santa Clara, CA, will define standards, implement secure practices, and grow with the company.

You will lead IT operations and infrastructure, manage endpoint security, onboarding/offboarding, and DevOps-driven automation while collaborating across teams to support rapid growth in a semiconductor/AI space.