Head of Information Technology (Defense)

Location: Torrance, California; responsibilities span multiple engineering, manufacturing, and test locations.

Company

hirify.global is an early-stage defense company developing affordable hypersonic weapons and the engineering, manufacturing, and testing capabilities required to deliver them.

What you will do

• Build, lead, and develop the IT organization across infrastructure, networking, systems, cybersecurity, and end-user support.
• Own IT strategy, architecture, budgets, vendors, capacity planning, and technology investment decisions.
• Design, deploy, commission, and operate connectivity, compute, storage, endpoints, and support infrastructure across engineering, manufacturing, and test sites.
• Maintain hands-on technical ownership through system design, configuration reviews, automation, and troubleshooting of critical failures.
• Improve reliability through monitoring, disaster recovery, incident response, root-cause resolution, and measurable service metrics.
• Implement access controls, network segmentation, endpoint hardening, logging, vulnerability management, patching, and protection of sensitive information.

Requirements

• Demonstrated exceptional personal technical achievement, including complex systems built, difficult technical problems solved, and measurable results delivered.
• Proven success leading a substantial IT or infrastructure organization, managing managers and multiple technical disciplines.
• Experience scaling an IT organization through rapid business growth while improving reliability, responsiveness, security, and technical quality.
• Deep expertise across networking, identity and access management, Windows and Linux systems, compute, storage, cloud infrastructure, and automation, with exceptional depth in multiple areas.
• Experience supporting demanding engineering, manufacturing, or test environments where infrastructure failures have immediate operational consequences.
• Strong architectural judgment and the ability to translate ambiguous requirements into reliable, scalable solutions quickly.
• Proven ability to attract exceptional talent, recognize technical excellence, develop future leaders, and address performance issues directly.
• Excellent communication skills, decisive prioritization, and commitment to personal ownership and measurable outcomes.
• Access to classified or export-controlled information may require U.S. Government security clearance, government authorization, citizenship, or other eligibility requirements when applicable.

Nice to have

• Experience with factory networks, operational technology, and infrastructure supporting manufacturing and test operations.
• Experience deploying IT infrastructure for new facilities, factories, and geographically distributed sites.
• Familiarity with engineering compute environments, high-performance computing, and specialized technical workloads.
• Experience implementing security controls in defense, aerospace, or other environments handling sensitive or controlled technical information.
• Experience building scalable, automated infrastructure that improves reliability, security, and operational efficiency.
• Experience building and developing high-performing technical teams and maintaining exceptional execution standards.
• Ability to balance hands-on technical problem-solving with organizational leadership, strategic planning, and resource allocation.

Culture & Benefits

• Early-stage environment with significant ownership and direct impact on the company’s mission.
• Fast-paced culture emphasizing focus, ownership, excellence, accountability, and measurable results.
• Close collaboration with engineering, manufacturing, flight test, and business leaders.
• Generous benefits package.
• Equal employment opportunity and reasonable accommodations throughout the application and hiring process.