IT Manager, Infrastructure

TerraPower is a nuclear technology company based in Bellevue, Washington. At its core, the company is working to raise living standards globally through a more affordable, secure, and environmentally friendly form of nuclear energy along with innovations in medical isotopes to improve human health. In 2006, TerraPower originated with Bill Gates and a group of like-minded visionaries who evaluated the fundamental challenges to raising living standards around the world. They recognized energy access was crucial to the health and economic well-being of communities and decided that the private sector needed to take action and create energy sources that would advance global energy deployment. TerraPower’s mission is to be a world leader in new nuclear technologies, while developing innovators and future leaders in the nuclear field. As a result, the company’s activities in the fields of nuclear energy and related sciences are yielding significant innovations in the safety and economics of nuclear power, hybrid energy and medical applications - all for significant human health benefits.”

TerraPower is seeking to hire highly motivated and forward-thinking professionals who are interested in focusing on advanced nuclear reactor research and development and influencing change within the nuclear power landscape and bringing forward the critical production of medical isotopes.  TerraPower is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. 

IT Manager, Infrastructure

TerraPower is seeking an IT Manager to lead a team responsible for maintaining and operating our infrastructure environment - compute, network, storage, identity, and backup/DR - across a mixed estate of government and public clouds, a private data center, and site-local compute. This hands-on leadership role bridges technology and business, ensuring infrastructure reliably supports engineering, operations, and corporate functions, while our international small office footprint continues to grow.

The IT Manager will oversee a team of systems engineers, network engineers, and HPC engineers. Systems engineers focus on server, storage, AI, and virtualization platforms which includes build, configuration, automation, and troubleshooting. Network engineers own routing, segmentation, WAN/SD-WAN, and secure access across sites and clouds. HPC engineers support accelerated compute platform infrastructure, and HPC scheduling for engineering and research workloads.

Responsibilities 

Lead the team

• Manage, coach, and develop a team of systems engineers, network engineers, and HPC engineers. Set clear expectations, give useful feedback often, and remove obstacles.
• Own hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development for your team.
• Balance workload across cloud initiatives, data center operations, international site standups, and production support demands.
• Create the conditions for people to do good work: clear ownership, reasonable on-call rotations, documented runbooks, and enough slack to think.

Own the infrastructure portfolio

• Serve as the operational owner for compute, network, telecom, storage, virtualization, identity, and backup/DR across multi-cloud, private data center, and site-local environments.
• Maintain and enforce infrastructure standards, patterns, and guardrails so application, data, and AI platform teams can build without bespoke review each time.
• Own the operational boundary between commercial and US Government cloud tenants, including controlled-data segregation and compliance-aligned configuration (NIST SP 800-171, CMMC, FedRAMP-relevant services).
• Direct capacity planning and lifecycle management for HPC infrastructure supporting AI and engineering workloads.
• Partner with Architecture, Applications, Information Security, and Data Management peers on identity, backup/recovery, monitoring, and data integration.

Deliver projects

• Lead infrastructure implementations - cloud landing zones, data center refreshes, HPC platform rollouts, and international office standups (network, identity, endpoint, and collaboration footprint) from design through deployment and stabilization.
• Manage infrastructure vendors and integrators (cloud providers, network/SD-WAN, data center and compute hardware, HPC/GPU platform vendors): hold them to scope and schedule, escalate effectively, and know the contract(s).
• Establish a repeatable site-deployment pattern so each new international location is faster and more consistent than the last.

Support the business

• Build real working relationships with engineering, lab, and corporate stakeholders. Understand workload needs - including accelerated AI/HPC compute and test-stand or OT-adjacent environments - well enough to translate them into infrastructure decisions.
• Establish sensible service levels, intake processes, and prioritization mechanisms that reduce friction.
• Bring cost discipline to infrastructure decisions: cloud unit economics, right-sizing, license posture, and honest build-versus-buy analysis.

Operate in a regulated environment

• Ensure infrastructure changes follow established change management, documentation, and quality requirements.
• Partner with Legal, Trade Compliance, and Information Security on export control (10 CFR Part 810, EAR/ITAR), data residency (UK GDPR, Korea's PIPA), records management, and audit readiness.

What we're looking for

Required

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 3-8 years of experience managing technology resources including FTEs and contractors, with direct accountability for their work and development.
• Demonstrated experience supporting enterprise infrastructure: cloud environments (Azure, AWS, or GCP), enterprise networking, and data center/virtualization platforms.
• Working knowledge of identity architecture (Entra ID or equivalent), backup/DR concepts, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible), and scripting (, PowerShell, Bash or Python).
• Solid grasp of infrastructure support fundamentals: incident and change management, environment strategy, and monitoring.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.

Preferred

• Experience in a regulated or engineering-driven industry (nuclear, aerospace, energy, defense, life sciences, etc.).
• Familiarity with ITIL-aligned service management practices and tooling.
• Experience with US Government cloud environments (Azure Government, GCC High, AWS GovCloud) and CMMC or NIST 800-171 programs.
• Experience supporting international office standups, including cross-border data handling.
• Familiarity with GPU/accelerated compute, HPC scheduling, or AI platform infrastructure.
• Exposure to laboratory or OT/ICS environments and their segmentation requirements.
• Relevant certifications (cloud, CCNP/CCIE, CISSP) are useful but secondary to demonstrated leadership.

Job Functions:

Job Functions are physical actions and/or working conditions associated with the position. These functions may also constitute essential functions for the job which the employee must be able to fulfill, with or without accommodation.  Information provided below is to help describe the job so that the applicant has a reasonable understanding of the job duties/expectations.  An applicant's ability to perform and/or tolerate these actions and conditions will be discussed and workplace accommodations may be made on a case-by-case basis following an individualized assessment of the applicant and other considerations, including but not limited to any governing safety standards.

• Motor Abilities: Sitting for extended periods, bending/stooping, grasping/gripping, fine motor control (hands)
• Physical exertion and/or requirements: Minimal, with ability to safely lift up to 25 pounds.
• Repetitive work: Prolonged
• Special Senses: Visual and audio focused work
• Work Conditions: Stairs, typing/keyboard, standard and/or sitting working environment of >8 hours/day
• Travel required 0-10%

TerraPower’s technology is controlled for export by various agencies of the U.S. Government.  TerraPower must evaluate applicants who are foreign nationals (other than asylees, refugees, or lawful permanent residents) in accordance with U.S. Government export control requirements.  To facilitate TerraPower’s export control reviews, you will be asked as part of the application process to identify whether you are a U.S. Citizen or national, asylee, refugee, or lawful permanent resident of the United States.  Government export authorization approval times vary.  Based on the business needs for a particular position, TerraPower may not consider a foreign national from a country if it is impracticable to obtain timely Government export approval.

Job details

Salary Range: $148,722 - $193,145

*Any salary offered within the posted salary band is based on market data and commensurate with the selected individual’s qualifications experience.  This range is specific to Washington State.

Benefits:

• Competitive Compensation
• Salary, eligible to participate in discretionary short-term incentive payments
• Comprehensive Medical and Wellness Benefits
  •   Medical
  •   Vision
  • Dental
  • Life and Disability
  • Gender Affirmation Benefits
• Parental Leave
• 401k Plan
• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO)
  • 21 days of annually accrued PTO
• Generous Holiday Schedule
  • 10 paid holidays
• Relocation Assistance
• Professional and Educational Support Opportunities

TerraPower Career and Benefits information:  https://www.terrapower.com/contact-us/careers/