Director of Information Technology

Lyntris is a defense technology company that connects sensing to action across the connected battlespace. Combining differentiated hardware, software, and mission expertise, Lyntris helps customers sense threats, make sense of complex conditions, and act with greater speed, precision, and confidence in contested environments. Lyntris supports U.S. and allied defense organizations across every branch—including Navy, Army, Air Force, Space Force, and allied partners—spanning strategic, operational, and tactical missions and every domain: Space, Air, Land, Sea, and Cyber.

This position requires an active U.S. national security clearance.

About the role

Develop and execute the organization’s IT strategy, roadmap, policies, and operating model in alignment with business objectives and DoD customer requirements. Lead enterprise IT infrastructure, networks, cloud environments, endpoints, identity and access management, collaboration platforms, business applications, and end-user services. Advise executive leadership on technology investments, cybersecurity risk, infrastructure requirements, IT modernization, and emerging technologies.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain IT governance, service management, asset management, change management, configuration management, backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity practices.
• Partner with cybersecurity and compliance stakeholders to support CMMC, NIST SP 800-171, DFARS, RMF, and other applicable DoD and federal requirements.
• Support protection of Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), security assessments, audits, remediation activities, POA&Ms, vulnerability management, and incident response.
• Manage IT budgets, technology lifecycle planning, licensing, vendors, contracts, and third-party service providers while driving cost-effective and scalable solutions.
• Establish measurable IT service levels, operational metrics, documentation standards, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Lead, mentor, and develop IT personnel and foster a responsive, security-focused, service-oriented technology organization.
• Collaborate with program, engineering, security, contracts, operations, and executive teams to ensure technology solutions support mission and contractual requirements.
• Lead the management of the IT and DevOps teams and associated infrastructure and cloud environment such as Artemis.

Requirements

• Currently holds an active U.S. national security clearance.
• 10+ years of progressive information technology experience, including significant responsibility for enterprise technology operations.
• 5+ years of IT leadership or management experience with responsibility for teams, infrastructure, budgets, vendors, and technology strategy.
• Demonstrated experience supporting a DoD contractor, Defense Industrial Base organization, federal contractor, or similarly regulated environment.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise infrastructure, networking, cloud technologies, identity and access management, endpoint management, and cybersecurity.
• Working knowledge of CMMC, NIST SP 800-171, DFARS 252.204-7012, and applicable DoD cybersecurity and compliance requirements.
• Experience supporting cybersecurity assessments, audits, remediation activities, security controls, IT governance, and technology standards.
• Strong vendor, contract, licensing, IT budget, and technology lifecycle management experience.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills, including the ability to translate technical risks and recommendations for executive and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• Master’s degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
• Experience leading IT operations within a growing or geographically distributed DoD contracting organization.
• Experience with Microsoft 365 Government environments, Azure Government, AWS GovCloud, or comparable government-authorized cloud environments.
• Experience preparing for or supporting CMMC assessments and certification activities.
• Familiarity with DoD RMF, NIST SP 800-53, FedRAMP, and related federal cybersecurity frameworks.
• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, PMP, ITIL, Security+, or equivalent.

Pay

The pay range for this role is $175,000 - $200,000 USD per year (San Diego, CA).

Benefits

• Paid Time Off
• Paid Company Holidays
• Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Optional HSA and FSA
• Base and Voluntary Life Insurance
• Short Term & Long-Term Disability Insurance
• 401k Matching
• Employee Assistance Program