Form Energy
Director, IT Operations
Berkeley, CA · Director · Full-time
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About the role
- Form Energy is scaling quickly across research, engineering, and manufacturing, and maturing the operating discipline that comes with it.
- This is a hybrid role, which will require working onsite from one of our office locations 3+ days per week.
Responsibilities
- Own core IT infrastructure: servers, storage, virtualization, and cloud (Microsoft 365 / Azure and Google Workspace) - including tenant infrastructure, security baselines, licensing compliance, and endpoint integration - and the identity and access infrastructure (Entra ID / Active Directory, MFA, and conditional-access policies).
- Lead the endpoint fleet and device management across Windows and macOS (MDM, imaging, patching, encryption enforcement) and the supporting service catalog.
- Direct networking across all sites - LAN/WAN/WLAN, firewalls, and segmentation - and partner with manufacturing controls teams on the secure IT/OT boundary (without owning OT).
- Own the service desk, procurement, and IT asset/inventory management across all sites - through a Manager, IT Service & Procurement - defining SLAs and metrics and driving a strong customer-service culture for a multi-site, multi-shift user base.
- partner closely with Cybersecurity & GRC and external auditors.
- Manage infrastructure, networking, and endpoint vendors, licensing, and the operating budget
- deliver excellence and reliability with a lean team.
- Lead a distributed team of site systems/network engineers and a service & procurement manager across MA, CA, and WV
Nice to have
- Experience in manufacturing, hardware, laboratory, or critical-infrastructure environments.
- Experience standing up IT controls in a maturing or compliance-intensive company.
- Familiarity with the IT/OT boundary in a manufacturing setting.
- Relevant certifications (e.g., ITIL, PMP, Microsoft / identity / cloud).
- This starts from day one.
- Requests for accommodations will be treated with discretion.
- Form Energy is committed to maintaining the privacy of our applicants.
- Please be aware that we will never solicit sensitive personal information such as Social Security numbers or bank account details during the recruiting or hiring process.
Compensation
- Humanity is a cornerstone of Form Energy's culture, and we make sure our compensation and benefits reflect that.
Company info
- We are making rapid progress on our mission of delivering energy storage for a better world, and our team is growing just as rapidly to meet demand.
- We are assembling a team of highly talented and driven individuals across the country.
- We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply to our open jobs.
- The Director of IT Operations owns the infrastructure, end-user services, networks, identity, and endpoint fleet that keep the company running across four U.S. sites.
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