Lam Research
Director GIS, Infrastructure Platform Engineering
Lam Research, Fremont, California, us, 94537
Director GIS, Infrastructure Platform Engineering at Lam Research
The group you’ll be a part of The Global Information Systems Group is dedicated to the success of Lam through providing best‑in‑class and innovative information system solutions and services. Together, we support users globally with data, information, and systems to achieve their business objectives.
The impact you’ll make The Director of Infrastructure Platform Engineering is a strategic and technically adept leader responsible for delivering and evolving enterprise infrastructure platforms that power global business operations. This role leads the modernization of hybrid infrastructure services through Platform Engineering principles—enabling scalable, observable, and resilient systems that support developer productivity, operational efficiency, and business continuity. The leader will oversee the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of platforms spanning Azure Cloud, Azure Local (on‑prem compute), NetApp storage, HPC, global networks, observability platforms, BC/DR, and FinOps. Success in this role requires deep technical expertise, a strong product mindset, and the ability to drive automation, reliability, and cost optimization across a complex infrastructure landscape.
What You’ll Do
Lead the transformation of infrastructure into platform services that are modular, automated, and consumable via APIs and self‑service interfaces.
Apply Platform Engineering principles to deliver infrastructure as product, enabling internal teams to build, deploy, and operate applications with speed and reliability.
Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), GitOps, CI/CD, and policy‑as‑code to ensure consistency, repeatability, and compliance.
Standardize automation frameworks and reusable patterns to reduce operational toil and accelerate delivery velocity.
Build systems with capabilities to detect, respond to, and recover from failures with minimal manual intervention.
Leverage telemetry, event‑driven automation, and intelligent alerting to enable proactive and adaptive infrastructure operations.
Standardize health checks, remediation workflows, and operational runbooks to support resilient and scalable platforms.
Define and monitor SLAs, SLOs, and error budgets to ensure platform reliability and performance.
Foster a culture of continuous improvement through blameless post‑mortems, automation‑first mindset, and data‑driven decision‑making.
Ensure compliance with security, governance, and regulatory standards through automated controls and auditability.
Build and lead a high‑performing, globally distributed Platform Engineering team.
Partner with application teams, enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, and business units to deliver integrated, developer‑friendly platforms.
Communicate platform strategy, value, and performance to executive stakeholders and influence cross‑functional alignment.
Who We’re Looking For
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with 10+ years of experience in infrastructure/platform engineering, with 5+ years in leadership roles.
Proven expertise in Azure cloud services, hybrid compute/storage, and infrastructure automation.
Deep understanding of Platform Engineering, DevOps, and SRE principles.
Experience with observability tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry), IaC tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible), and CI/CD platforms.
Strong background in HPC, scale‑out storage, and global networking including SASE‑WAN, ZTNA, and SSE architectures.
Demonstrated success in leading FinOps practices and optimizing cloud spend.
Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
Certifications in Azure, Kubernetes, FinOps, or SRE.
Experience in regulated or large‑scale enterprise environments.
Our commitment We believe it is important for every person to feel valued, included, and empowered to achieve their full potential. By bringing unique individuals and viewpoints together, we achieve extraordinary results. Lam Research is an equal‑opportunity employer. Lam is committed to and reaffirms support of equal opportunity in employment and non‑discrimination in employment policies, practices and procedures on the basis of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, or military and veteran status or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. It is the Company’s intention to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Company policy prohibits unlawful discrimination against applicants or employees.
Salary CA San Francisco Bay Area Salary Range for this position: $155,000.00 - $324,000.00. The above salary range for this position is relevant to applicants that reside or work onsite in the California, San Francisco Bay Area only. Salary offers will depend on factors that include the location you work from, your level, education, training, specific skills, years of experience and comparison to other employees already in this role. Actual salary may vary from salary offered due to numerous factors including but not limited to unpaid time off, unpaid leave, company mandated shutdown, and other relevant factors.
Our Perks And Benefits At Lam, our people make amazing things possible. That’s why we invest in you throughout the phases of your life with a comprehensive set of outstanding benefits. Lam offers a variety of work location models based on the needs of each role. Our hybrid roles combine the benefits of on‑site collaboration with colleagues and the flexibility to work remotely and fall into two categories – On‑site Flex and Virtual Flex. ‘On‑site Flex’ you’ll work 3+ days per week on‑site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, with the opportunity to work remotely for the balance of the week. ‘Virtual Flex’ you’ll work 1‑2 days per week on‑site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, and remotely the rest of the time.
Seniority level Not Applicable
Employment type Full‑time
Job function Semiconductor Manufacturing
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The group you’ll be a part of The Global Information Systems Group is dedicated to the success of Lam through providing best‑in‑class and innovative information system solutions and services. Together, we support users globally with data, information, and systems to achieve their business objectives.
The impact you’ll make The Director of Infrastructure Platform Engineering is a strategic and technically adept leader responsible for delivering and evolving enterprise infrastructure platforms that power global business operations. This role leads the modernization of hybrid infrastructure services through Platform Engineering principles—enabling scalable, observable, and resilient systems that support developer productivity, operational efficiency, and business continuity. The leader will oversee the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of platforms spanning Azure Cloud, Azure Local (on‑prem compute), NetApp storage, HPC, global networks, observability platforms, BC/DR, and FinOps. Success in this role requires deep technical expertise, a strong product mindset, and the ability to drive automation, reliability, and cost optimization across a complex infrastructure landscape.
What You’ll Do
Lead the transformation of infrastructure into platform services that are modular, automated, and consumable via APIs and self‑service interfaces.
Apply Platform Engineering principles to deliver infrastructure as product, enabling internal teams to build, deploy, and operate applications with speed and reliability.
Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), GitOps, CI/CD, and policy‑as‑code to ensure consistency, repeatability, and compliance.
Standardize automation frameworks and reusable patterns to reduce operational toil and accelerate delivery velocity.
Build systems with capabilities to detect, respond to, and recover from failures with minimal manual intervention.
Leverage telemetry, event‑driven automation, and intelligent alerting to enable proactive and adaptive infrastructure operations.
Standardize health checks, remediation workflows, and operational runbooks to support resilient and scalable platforms.
Define and monitor SLAs, SLOs, and error budgets to ensure platform reliability and performance.
Foster a culture of continuous improvement through blameless post‑mortems, automation‑first mindset, and data‑driven decision‑making.
Ensure compliance with security, governance, and regulatory standards through automated controls and auditability.
Build and lead a high‑performing, globally distributed Platform Engineering team.
Partner with application teams, enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, and business units to deliver integrated, developer‑friendly platforms.
Communicate platform strategy, value, and performance to executive stakeholders and influence cross‑functional alignment.
Who We’re Looking For
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with 10+ years of experience in infrastructure/platform engineering, with 5+ years in leadership roles.
Proven expertise in Azure cloud services, hybrid compute/storage, and infrastructure automation.
Deep understanding of Platform Engineering, DevOps, and SRE principles.
Experience with observability tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry), IaC tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible), and CI/CD platforms.
Strong background in HPC, scale‑out storage, and global networking including SASE‑WAN, ZTNA, and SSE architectures.
Demonstrated success in leading FinOps practices and optimizing cloud spend.
Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
Certifications in Azure, Kubernetes, FinOps, or SRE.
Experience in regulated or large‑scale enterprise environments.
Our commitment We believe it is important for every person to feel valued, included, and empowered to achieve their full potential. By bringing unique individuals and viewpoints together, we achieve extraordinary results. Lam Research is an equal‑opportunity employer. Lam is committed to and reaffirms support of equal opportunity in employment and non‑discrimination in employment policies, practices and procedures on the basis of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, or military and veteran status or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. It is the Company’s intention to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Company policy prohibits unlawful discrimination against applicants or employees.
Salary CA San Francisco Bay Area Salary Range for this position: $155,000.00 - $324,000.00. The above salary range for this position is relevant to applicants that reside or work onsite in the California, San Francisco Bay Area only. Salary offers will depend on factors that include the location you work from, your level, education, training, specific skills, years of experience and comparison to other employees already in this role. Actual salary may vary from salary offered due to numerous factors including but not limited to unpaid time off, unpaid leave, company mandated shutdown, and other relevant factors.
Our Perks And Benefits At Lam, our people make amazing things possible. That’s why we invest in you throughout the phases of your life with a comprehensive set of outstanding benefits. Lam offers a variety of work location models based on the needs of each role. Our hybrid roles combine the benefits of on‑site collaboration with colleagues and the flexibility to work remotely and fall into two categories – On‑site Flex and Virtual Flex. ‘On‑site Flex’ you’ll work 3+ days per week on‑site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, with the opportunity to work remotely for the balance of the week. ‘Virtual Flex’ you’ll work 1‑2 days per week on‑site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, and remotely the rest of the time.
Seniority level Not Applicable
Employment type Full‑time
Job function Semiconductor Manufacturing
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