Manager, IT Systems & Infrastructure

About the Team:

The IT team is responsible for the full scope of computing infrastructure, end-user systems, servers, virtualization, cloud, networking, software services, telecommunications, and information security. You'll support every function across the company, from the production floor to flight operations, enabling Relativity's world-class team to design, build, and launch rockets. The team balances near-term execution with long-term vision, developing scalable solutions and processes to enable the company's growth. The evolving complexity of our IT environment offers opportunities to stretch and sharpen problem solving and hands-on technical skills. We invest in our people, encouraging ownership, cross-training, and advancement, so our team can grow as fast and ambitiously as the company itself.

About the Role:

• Lead, mentor, and scale a team of high-performing systems engineers specializing in Linux, Windows, compute, storage, virtualization, systems architecture, and integrations
• Orchestrate and align infrastructure projects against company priorities and launch-readiness milestones (eg: storage modernization, data strategy and migrations, and hypervisor overhaul/scalability
• Provide architectural-level technical leadership, integrating emerging technologies into cohesive roadmaps that enable test, manufacturing, and engineering operations to scale efficiently
• Drive cross-functional collaboration between IT Ops, DevOps, Cybersecurity, Networking, and Test Operations, turning new cooperative momentum into durable, high-impact outcomes
• Establish and maintain operational and architectural standards across infrastructure domains, ensuring resilience, scalability, and security
• Be a player-coach when needed; provide hands-on technical contribution or guidance when necessary, especially in complex or high-stakes projects, while maintaining strategic leadership and team enablement focus

About You:

• 8+ years of experience in enterprise infrastructure or systems engineering, with at least 3+ years in a technical leadership or management role
• Proven expertise across compute, storage, and virtualization ecosystems (e.g., VMware, KVM, Proxmox, Hyper-V)
• Strong background in systems architecture and design, including hybrid cloud integration and on-prem resource optimization
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop engineers, manage complex project portfolios and associated documentation, and align execution with organizational strategy
• Experience with enterprise datacenter operations, backup/DR strategy, and infrastructure scaling for high-throughput or mission-critical workloads
• Comfortable serving as a hands-on technical leader ("player-coach"), able to dive into architecture design or complex troubleshooting when the situation requires it

Nice to haves but not required:

• Experience in aerospace, manufacturing, or high-performance compute environments.
• Familiarity with software-defined storage (Ceph, MinIO, Red Hat ODF) and container-native storage for Kubernetes clusters.
• Background in hybrid or multi-cloud architectures (Azure, GCP, AWS).
• Prior success building or maturing an infrastructure engineering function in a fast-scaling technical organization.