Manager, IT Systems & Infrastructure

At Relativity Space were building rockets to serve todays needs and tomorrows breakthroughs. OurTerran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit meeting the growing demand for launchcapacity. But thats just the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock newopportunities to advance science exploration and innovation pioneering progress that reaches beyondthe known.

Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy ownership and impact exist at every level. Here youre not just executing tasks; youre solving problems that havent been solved before helping develop a rocket a factory and a business from the ground up. Whether youre in propulsion manufacturing software avionics or a corporate function youll collaborate across teams shape decisions and see your work come to life in record time. Relativity is a place where creativity and technical rigor go hand in hand and your voice will help define the stories were writing together. Nowis a unique moment in time where its early enough to leave your mark on the product the process andthe culture but far enough along that Terran R is tangible and picking up momentum. The mostmeaningful work of your career is waiting. Join us.

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. Youll support every function across the company from the production floor to flight operations enabling Relativitys 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 companys 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.

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