Director of IT - Schaumburg, IL (Chicago area)

About MISUMI Americas

MISUMI Americas, a division of MISUMI Group, is a leading provider of standard, configurable, and custom manufacturing solutions. By integrating a vast catalog of components with a world-class digital manufacturing platform, MISUMI Americas empowers engineers and procurement teams to accelerate innovation across the entire product lifecycle. With operations in the San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago, the company serves as a vital partner for the most innovative companies in the Americas.

THE OPPORTUNITY

MISUMI Americas is the product of two strong brands coming together with a shared ambition: to become the defining force in digital manufacturing. MISUMI USA brings decades of established trust, global scale, and an unmatched catalog. Fictiv brings a track record of technology-led innovation and a relentless drive to reimagine how manufacturing gets done. Together, we're not just combining companies — we're building something more capable than either could be alone, with the resources of an industry leader and the energy of a company that still thinks like a challenger. IT infrastructure is foundational to getting that right. We've combined two organizations onto a shared technology platform, and we're doing it deliberately — investing in world-class security, modern tooling, and a team that treats every employee as a high-value customer. This is your chance to own that effort end to end: finish the integration, then run and grow the IT organization that will support MISUMI Americas for years to come. This isn't a steady-state role. It's a rare window where someone with real technical depth — hands-on with Entra ID, Intune, SIEM, Slack Enterprise Grid — can shape the architecture of a combined organization and leave a durable mark.

Required

• Next-gen SIEM MUST HAVE — operating a cloud-native platform (LogScale, Splunk Cloud, Chronicle, Elastic, or equivalent) in production: connectors, detection rule tuning, dashboards, threat hunting
• Microsoft Entra ID MUST HAVE — deep hands-on: conditional access design, SAML/OIDC federation, SCIM provisioning, dynamic groups, and experience with Okta-to-Entra or similar IDP migration
• Intune & endpoint management MUST HAVE — mixed macOS/iOS/Windows fleet, Apple Business Manager, compliance policies, and conditional access integration
• Slack Enterprise Grid MUST HAVE — SSO, SCIM, workspace management, retention policies
• Microsoft 365 administration MUST HAVE — Exchange Online (mail flow, transport rules, DNS), SharePoint Online, OneDrive
• DNS & infrastructure fundamentals MUST HAVE — MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, autodiscover, cross-tenant migration implications
• Nice to have: CrowdStrike Falcon NICE TO HAVE — hands-on sensor deployment, prevention policy management, Falcon Insight EDR investigation, and Falcon Fusion workflow automation across macOS/Windows/Linux
• Nice to have: Google Workspace administration and Google-to-M365 migration tooling (BitTitan, ShareGate, Microsoft Mover)
• Nice to have: Scripting and automation (PowerShell, Python, or similar) for bulk ops and integration tasks
• Nice to have: Azure infrastructure beyond M365: Application Proxy, Logic Apps, Azure Functions
• Nice to have: Microsoft Purview compliance and eDiscovery tooling
• Nice to have: ITIL or ITSM framework experience; experience evaluating and implementing ticketing platforms
• Nice to have: Falcon Identity Threat Detection or Falcon Discover experience

Who Thrives Here

• Service-first — You measure success by whether employees feel supported and unblocked, not just uptime metrics.
• Hands-on by choice — You're willing to reset passwords and debug a mail flow rule alongside the strategic work, without it feeling beneath you.
• Comfortable with ambiguity — You can operate effectively with incomplete information, make reasonable calls, and adjust as clarity emerges.
• Bias toward action — You distinguish between decisions that need deliberation and ones where momentum matters more than precision.
• Clear communicator — You can explain complex technical decisions to non-technical stakeholders and write documentation that actually gets used.
• Vendor-savvy — You know how to hold vendors accountable, negotiate effectively, and avoid being oversold on features you don't need.