Director, Enterprise Architecture and Infrastructure

Position Summary

Help build the infrastructure that keeps a growing defense manufacturer designing, producing, and delivering. Red Cat Holdings manufactures military unmanned aircraft and surface vessels across multiple divisions and sites. We are seeking a technically accomplished leader who can connect the architectural decisions made today with the reliability and scale our business needs tomorrow. Reporting to the VP of Enterprise Systems and Manufacturing Integration, you will be Red Cat’s highest technical authority for enterprise IT infrastructure. You will lead five direct reports across infrastructure systems engineering, systems administration, and network engineering, and direct infrastructure delivery through our managed service provider. Your expertise will help the team evaluate designs, resolve complex dependencies, and deliver dependable services. Team members perform routine configuration and implementation; you remain accountable for technical decisions and results. This role can be based at any of our manufacturing locations, with a strong preference for the corporate headquarters in Salt Lake City. Travel will be required several times per year. Locations include Salt Lake City, Utah; Valdosta, Georgia; West Palm Beach, Florida; San Diego, California; Torrance, California; Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec.

Responsibilities

• Own the infrastructure architecture and roadmap across identity, networking, connectivity, cloud and on-premises hosting, compute, storage, virtualization, endpoint platforms, and shared services.
• Ensure designs work together across divisions, sites, tenants, and identity providers.
• Lead system integration efforts to minimize manual work and optimize data flow across the network.
• Establish practical technical standards and lead design reviews.
• Challenge assumptions, assess failure modes and dependencies, document architectural decisions, and guide engineers through complex technical problems.
• Plan infrastructure lifecycles, capacity, modernization, and technical debt reduction.
• Evaluate consolidation and cloud migration against reliability, performance, cost, security requirements, and the team’s ability to operate the solution.
• Partner with manufacturing, and engineering application owners on hosting, connectivity, identity, capacity, and recovery. Application owners retain application standards, configuration, and business process