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As we enter our next phase of growth and scale the Chaparral aircraft from flight testing into full-rate production, Elroy Air needs one person to own IT and security from the ground up. This is a true builder role: you'll be a team of one for the foreseeable future, operating as both the strategist setting direction and the hands-on operator keeping systems running day to day.
You'll design and defend our network against real threats, and you'll build and maintain the CMMC compliance framework that lets us operate in export-controlled, government-adjacent environments, essentially standing up the function solo before it grows.
You'll work directly with engineering, security, legal, and leadership, with full ownership of decisions that in a larger company would be split across a team.
The Head of IT will build, lead, secure, scale, and create high-performing IT systems across the company. This role is responsible for architecting and operating our internal IT infrastructure, including corporate IT, identity and access management (physical and digital), endpoint systems, networking, and compliance frameworks required for export-controlled environments.
You will shape and build the systems that allow the company to mature and operate efficiently as we scale.
Key Responsibilities: Security & network defense: architect and actively defend physical and cloud network infrastructure against intrusion; own logging, detection, and incident response.
CMMC / compliance framework — build and maintain CMMC (and related NIST 800-171/800-53) compliance from the ground up, and serve as the key stakeholder in audits and regulatory inspections
Own end-to-end management of corporate IT infrastructure: physical networks, endpoint management, and SaaS management, maintaining successful compliance with strict security frameworks such as NIST SP 800-53
Develop and enforce IT policies and access control aligned with defense sector norms and requirements.
Architect and maintain secure physical network infrastructure across office, lab, and production environments
Partner with Engineering to support high-performance cloud computing, lab systems, and specialized environments.
Own and streamline IT elements of employee lifecycle, including automating critical aspects of onboarding / offboarding
You Will Be Successful in This Role If You: You're equally comfortable setting long-term security strategy and personally racking a switch or troubleshooting a laptop.
You take full ownership with no team to delegate to, make sound judgment calls in ambiguity, and treat security as a first principle and not a checkbox, while still enabling the business to move fast.
You're building something that doesn't exist yet, not maintaining something that does.
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