MES Systems Administrator - Remote/Hybrid Deployment Lead

LAM RESEARCH Corporation; Fremont (CA); Hybrid; USD 92,000 - 211,000; Full time

Job summary

Lam Research in California is seeking a MES Systems Administrator to reinforce MES delivery across high‑tech CoE R&D Lab environments. You will deploy, configure, troubleshoot and optimize MES setups, coordinating with Deployment Support and Customer teams to ensure secure, efficient and scalable production environments.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, 10+ years of systems administration, strong Docker and Kubernetes/OpenShift skills, and solid Linux and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of systems administration experience.
• Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes/OpenShift for containerized deployments.
• Solid background in Linux networking, volumes, system services, journaling.
• Hands-on experience with VMware or Hyper-V for VM provisioning and snapshots.
• Strong problem-solving and investigative skills with a log-oriented approach.
• Excellent communication and ability to work cross-functionally.

Responsibilities

• Lead deployments of MES and application environments.
• Execute remote installations of MES environments and applications.
• Validate pre-conditions, dependencies, and compatibility before deployment.
• Manage environment governance and access.
• Optimize and scale MES environments.
• Monitor resource consumption (CPU, memory, storage, cluster health).
• Identify scaling needs and perform capacity adjustments.
• Troubleshoot complex deployment issues.
• Investigate problems using logs, containers, pods, events, and system traces.
• Contribute to internal knowledge bases and runbooks.
• Help improve automation, observability, and deployment tooling.

Skills

Docker

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Linux

VMware

Hyper-V

English communication

Problem solving

Organization

Attention to detail

Cross-functional communication

Initiative

DevOps tooling

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or relevant field

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Kafka

ClickHouse

SQL Server

Job description

Lam Research in California is seeking a MES Systems Administrator to reinforce MES delivery across high‑tech CoE R&D Lab environments. You will deploy, configure, troubleshoot and optimize MES setups, coordinating with Deployment Support and Customer teams to ensure secure, efficient and scalable production environments.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, 10+ years of systems administration, strong Docker and Kubernetes/OpenShift skills, and solid Linux and