Chief IT & Infrastructure Officer

Castelion Corporation; Torrance (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Castelion is seeking a hands-on Head of Information Technology to own IT strategy, infrastructure, and execution across locations. You will build and scale a high-performing team, directly solving complex infrastructure challenges while aligning with business goals.

The role requires leading across networking, security, cloud, and automation, with a bias for action and measurable outcomes. Strong leadership and architectural judgment are essential.

Qualifications

• Proven record of leading a substantial IT or infrastructure organization.
• Experience scaling IT while improving reliability, responsiveness, security, and technical quality.
• Deep technical expertise across networking, IAM, Windows and Linux systems, compute, storage, cloud infrastructure, and automation.
• Experience supporting demanding engineering, manufacturing, or test environments where outages impact operations.
• Strong architectural judgment and ability to translate ambiguous requirements into reliable solutions.
• Proven ability to attract exceptional talent, develop leaders, and address performance issues directly.
• Excellent communication, decisive prioritization, and ownership.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead an exceptional IT organization.
• Maintain deep technical ownership and hands-on problem solving.
• Scale infrastructure across multiple sites including new facilities and test locations.
• Ensure reliability, monitoring, disaster recovery, and incident response.
• Accelerate engineering, manufacturing, and test by removing infrastructure bottlenecks.
• Automate provisioning, IAM, configuration, patching, monitoring, and recovery.
• Implement security controls and protect sensitive information.
• Own technology strategy and resource allocation with budgets and vendors.
• Establish accountability and continuous improvement with meaningful metrics.

Skills

Networking

IAM

Windows

Linux

Cloud

Automation

Security

Leadership

Budgeting

Vendor mgmt

Tools

Networking gear

Cloud platforms

Job description

Castelion is seeking a hands-on Head of Information Technology to own IT strategy, infrastructure, and execution across locations. You will build and scale a high-performing team, directly solving complex infrastructure challenges while aligning with business goals.

The role requires leading across networking, security, cloud, and automation, with a bias for action and measurable outcomes. Strong leadership and architectural judgment are essential.