Colorado Springs, CO Hybrid Employment

Sphinx Defense is hiring an Infrastructure Deployment Manager

Responsibilities

  • Receive, inspect, and validate enterprise hardware deliveries, ensuring systems meet procurement and deployment requirements.
  • Commission bare-metal servers, storage, and networking equipment into fully operational development environments.
  • Configure virtualization platforms such as VMware ESXi or KVM and establish standardized infrastructure baselines.
  • Deploy and configure enterprise storage solutions (SAN/NAS), VLANs, operating systems, and foundational networking services.
  • Maintain hardware configuration consistency across multiple development sites and subcontractor environments.
  • Partner with external systems integrators throughout infrastructure procurement, installation, and acceptance testing.
  • Perform power-on validation, hardware acceptance testing, and infrastructure verification before deployment.
  • Build clean, production-ready infrastructure environments that can be transitioned to internal DevOps teams for software deployment and automation.
  • Document infrastructure standards, configurations, and deployment procedures to support repeatable implementations.
  • Collaborate with engineering and cybersecurity teams to maintain secure, reliable, and scalable IT infrastructure.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience administering enterprise IT infrastructure, server environments, or data center operations.
  • Experience building, configuring, and managing multi-rack server environments supporting software development or automated testing.
  • Hands-on experience commissioning enterprise hardware from initial delivery through operational deployment.
  • Experience configuring virtualization technologies such as VMware ESXi, KVM, or similar hypervisors.
  • Experience with enterprise networking concepts including VLANs, switching, routing fundamentals, and storage infrastructure (SAN/NAS).
  • Experience supporting infrastructure deployments across multiple locations or geographically distributed environments.
  • Comfortable collaborating with software engineering, DevOps, and infrastructure teams throughout the deployment lifecycle.
  • Experience documenting infrastructure standards and maintaining consistent system configurations.
  • Hold an active Secret Security Clearance and are eligible to obtain TS/SCI (or are willing and able to obtain one, if applicable).
  • Experience achieving and maintaining accredited classified systems through DoW (Department of War) or Intelligence Community Risk Management Frameworks (RMF).
  • Have led teams or other engineers in a technical leadership and/or functional leadership capacity.

Nice to Have

  • Experience supporting government, defense, or classified computing environments.
  • Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or SaltStack.
  • Experience supporting Kubernetes, GitLab Runners, or containerized development environments.
  • Previous experience working with enterprise systems integrators or large-scale infrastructure deployments.
  • Familiarity with automated software build environments or “software factory” infrastructure.
  • Experience working within secure development environments or multi-site engineering organizations.

Benefits

  • Compensation includes competitive salary, meaningful equity ownership, profit sharing, employer 401(k) contribution, and 100% employer covered medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents.

Work Arrangement

Hybrid — Chantilly, VA, Colorado Springs, CO, El Segundo, CA, Seal Beach, CA

Additional Information

  • 30% travel required, depending on program needs and where the selected candidate resides.
  • Must be a US Citizen.
  • Must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. TS/SCI security clearance.
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Sphinx Defense

Satellites may orbit above, but mission success starts on the ground. Secure, reliable data flow between terrestrial systems and space assets is more critical than ever.

Sphinx Defense develops high performing software that ensures command, control, and communications happen exactly when—and how—they should.

Sphinx was founded by a team of highly experienced software engineers who recognized that conventional approaches weren’t keeping up with the complexity or urgency of modern satellite operations. Manual processes and siloed systems are no longer viable.

At Sphinx, we challenge entrenched norms and ask the hard questions—paving the way for more efficient workflows and more effective solutions.

At Sphinx, we develop custom software solutions and license proprietary platforms that enable faster, smarter, and more secure satellite operations and ground data transport, supporting government and commercial teams as they tackle high-stakes missions where timing, focus, and performance are everything.

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