IT Manager, Infrastructure

About the role

TerraPower is seeking an IT Manager to lead a team responsible for maintaining and operating our infrastructure environment - compute, network, storage, identity, and backup/DR - across a mixed estate of government and public clouds, a private data center, and site-local compute. This hands-on leadership role bridges technology and business, ensuring infrastructure reliably supports engineering, operations, and corporate functions, while our international small office footprint continues to grow. The IT Manager will oversee a team of systems engineers, network engineers, and HPC engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team: manage, coach, and develop systems engineers, network engineers, and HPC engineers; set clear expectations, give frequent feedback, remove obstacles; own hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development; balance workload across cloud initiatives, data center operations, international site standups, and production support.
• Own the infrastructure portfolio: serve as operational owner for compute, network, telecom, storage, virtualization, identity, and backup/DR across multi‑cloud, private data center, and site‑local environments; maintain and enforce infrastructure standards, patterns, and guardrails; own the operational boundary between commercial and US Government cloud tenants (controlled‑data segregation, compliance‑aligned configuration – NIST SP 800‑171, CMMC, FedRAMP‑relevant services); direct capacity planning and lifecycle management for HPC infrastructure supporting AI and engineering workloads; partner with Architecture, Applications, Information Security, and Data Management on identity, backup/recovery, monitoring, and data integration.
• Deliver projects: lead infrastructure implementations (cloud landing zones, data center refreshes, HPC platform rollouts, international office standups – network, identity, endpoint, collaboration footprint) from design through deployment and stabilization; manage infrastructure vendors and integrators (cloud providers, network/SD‑WAN, data center and compute hardware, HPC/GPU platform vendors) to scope and schedule; establish repeatable site‑deployment pattern for new international locations.
• Support the business: build real working relationships with engineering, lab, and corporate stakeholders; understand workload needs (accelerated AI/HPC compute, test‑stand or OT‑adjacent environments) and translate them into infrastructure decisions; establish sensible service levels, intake processes, and prioritization mechanisms; bring cost discipline to infrastructure decisions (cloud unit economics, right‑sizing, license posture, honest build‑versus‑buy analysis).
• Operate in a regulated environment: ensure infrastructure changes follow change management, documentation, and quality requirements; partner with Legal, Trade Compliance, and Information Security on export control (10 CFR Part 810, EAR/ITAR), data residency (UK GDPR, Korea's PIPA), records management, and audit readiness.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 3–8 years of experience managing technology resources (FTEs and contractors) with direct accountability for their work and development.
• Demonstrated experience supporting enterprise infrastructure: cloud environments (Azure, AWS, or GCP), enterprise networking, and data center/virtualization platforms.
• Working knowledge of identity architecture (Entra ID or equivalent), backup/DR concepts, infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform, Ansible), and scripting (PowerShell, Bash, or Python).
• Solid grasp of infrastructure support fundamentals: incident and change management, environment strategy, and monitoring.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a regulated or engineering‑driven industry (nuclear, aerospace, energy, defense, life sciences, etc.).
• Familiarity with ITIL‑aligned service management practices and tooling.
• Experience with US Government cloud environments (Azure Government, GCC High, AWS GovCloud) and CMMC or NIST 800‑171 programs.
• Experience supporting international office standups, including cross‑border data handling.
• Familiarity with GPU/accelerated compute, HPC scheduling, or AI platform infrastructure.
• Exposure to laboratory or OT/ICS environments and their segmentation requirements.
• Relevant certifications (cloud, CCNP/CCIE, CISSP) are useful but secondary to demonstrated leadership.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation – salary eligible for discretionary short‑term incentive payments.
• Comprehensive medical and wellness benefits: medical, vision, dental, life and disability, gender affirmation benefits, parental leave.
• 401(k) plan.
• Generous paid time off: 21 days of annually accrued PTO.
• Generous holiday schedule: 10 paid holidays.
• Relocation assistance.
• Professional and educational support opportunities.

Pay

$148,722 - $193,145