Infrastructure Deployment Manager

About the role

This role is responsible for standing up production-ready compute, storage, networking, and virtualization platforms that enable our engineering teams to deliver mission-critical software for national security programs.

You’ll be the technical bridge between infrastructure vendors and our internal engineering teams, ensuring new hardware is received, validated, configured, and ready for software deployment. From commissioning bare-metal systems to establishing standardized operating environments, you’ll play a key role in building reliable, scalable infrastructure across multiple development sites.

Responsibilities

• Receive, inspect, and validate enterprise hardware deliveries, ensuring systems meet procurement and deployment requirements.
• Commission bare-metal servers, storage, and networking equipment into fully operational development environments.
• Configure virtualization platforms such as VMware ESXi or KVM and establish standardized infrastructure baselines.
• Deploy and configure enterprise storage solutions (SAN/NAS), VLANs, operating systems, and foundational networking services.
• Maintain hardware configuration consistency across multiple development sites and subcontractor environments.
• Partner with external systems integrators throughout infrastructure procurement, installation, and acceptance testing.
• Perform power-on validation, hardware acceptance testing, and infrastructure verification before deployment.
• Build clean, production-ready infrastructure environments that can be transitioned to internal DevOps teams for software deployment and automation.
• Document infrastructure standards, configurations, and deployment procedures to support repeatable implementations.
• Collaborate with engineering and cybersecurity teams to maintain secure, reliable, and scalable IT infrastructure.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience administering enterprise IT infrastructure, server environments, or data center operations.
• Experience building, configuring, and managing multi-rack server environments supporting software development or automated testing.
• Hands-on experience commissioning enterprise hardware from initial delivery through operational deployment.
• Experienced configuring virtualization technologies such as VMware ESXi, KVM, or similar hypervisors.
• Experience with enterprise networking concepts including VLANs, switching, routing fundamentals, and storage infrastructure (SAN/NAS).
• Experience supporting infrastructure deployments across multiple locations or geographically distributed environments.
• Comfortable collaborating with software engineering, DevOps, and infrastructure teams throughout the deployment lifecycle.
• Experience documenting infrastructure standards and maintaining consistent system configurations.
• Active Secret Security Clearance and eligibility to obtain TS/SCI (or willingness to obtain one, if applicable).
• Experience achieving and maintaining accredited classified systems through DoD (Department of Defense) or Intelligence Community Risk Management Frameworks (RMF).
• Led teams or other engineers in a technical leadership and/or functional leadership capacity.

Bonus points

• Experience supporting government, defense, or classified computing environments.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or SaltStack.
• Experience supporting Kubernetes, GitLab Runners, or containerized development environments.
• Previous experience working with enterprise systems integrators or large-scale infrastructure deployments.
• Familiarity with automated software build environments or “software factory” infrastructure.
• Experience working within secure development environments or multi-site engineering organizations.

Benefits

Compensation includes competitive salary, meaningful equity ownership, profit sharing, employer 401(k) contribution, and 100% employer covered medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents.

Eligibility

Must be a US Citizen.

Must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. TS/SCI security clearance.

EEO Statement

Sphinx Defense is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity.