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Relativity Space · 14 hours ago

Manager, IT Systems & Infrastructure

Long Beach, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$176K/yr - $196K/yr

8+ years exp

Relativity Space is building rockets to meet today's needs and future breakthroughs. The role involves leading a team of systems engineers, orchestrating infrastructure projects, and providing technical leadership to support the company's growth and operational readiness.

3D TechnologyAerospaceArtificial Intelligence (AI)Manufacturing

Responsibilities

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

Qualification

LinuxWindowsVirtualizationSystems ArchitectureCloud IntegrationProject ManagementTroubleshootingMentoringCollaboration

Required

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