IT Infrastructure & Engineering Lead for Test Environments

Impulse Space; Redondo Beach (CA); On-site; USD 155,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Impulse Space is seeking a Manager, IT Engineering & Infrastructure (AI&T) in Redondo Beach to lead the design, implementation, and operation of infrastructure platforms that support integration, test, and engineering environments.

You will own the technical backbone of AI&T systems and lead a team of engineers, partnering with AI&T and engineering to ensure infrastructure enables system integration, validation, and mission readiness.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering or related domains.
• 2+ years of leadership or team management experience.
• Experience leading technical teams supporting complex infrastructure environments.
• Strong background in networking, systems, and platform engineering.
• Experience designing and operating infrastructure in lab, test, or engineering environments.
• Proven ability to deliver scalable, reliable infrastructure solutions.
• Strong leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute infrastructure strategy for integration, test, and engineering environments
• Oversee architecture and lifecycle management for networks, compute, storage, cloud, and lab infrastructure
• Ensure high availability, scalability, reliability, and time-synchronized operations across test systems
• Lead and develop systems and network engineering teams while establishing technical standards and best practices
• Drive technical decision-making aligned with long-term operational, scalability, and reliability goals
• Manage infrastructure supporting test facilities, lab environments, structured cabling, and real-time data systems
• Coordinate test stand deployments, facility upgrades, and infrastructure readiness for integration and test activities
• Lead automation, infrastructure-as-code, and platform engineering initiatives to improve deployment consistency and operational efficiency
• Establish monitoring, observability, incident response, and root cause analysis practices to ensure operational excellence
• Ensure compliance with enterprise security, zero-trust architecture, regulatory requirements, and secure engineering data management while collaborating with cross-functional teams and vendors

Skills

Infrastructure leadership

Networking

Systems engineering

Team management

Lab/test environment design

Regulatory/compliance

Job description

Impulse Space is seeking a Manager, IT Engineering & Infrastructure (AI&T) in Redondo Beach to lead the design, implementation, and operation of infrastructure platforms that support integration, test, and engineering environments.

You will own the technical backbone of AI&T systems and lead a team of engineers, partnering with AI&T and engineering to ensure infrastructure enables system integration, validation, and mission readiness.