Manager, IT Infrastructure & Lab Engineering

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

Job summary

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

You will manage a team, set technical standards, and drive automation, monitoring, and security practices to ensure reliability and scalability. This role partners with AI&T and broader engineering teams to meet mission objectives.

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

Leadership

Infrastructure engineering

Networking

Systems engineering

Platform engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Lab infrastructure

Automation tooling

Job description

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

You will manage a team, set technical standards, and drive automation, monitoring, and security practices to ensure reliability and scalability. This role partners with AI&T and broader engineering teams to meet mission objectives.