Endurance Energy

Endurance Energy

IT Lead

Seattle, WA · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$171k-$800kDetected 9 days ago
CybersecurityProcurementERPPower ElectronicsFirewallVPNCiscoCommunicationCISSP

About the role

  • Backed by Founders Fund, Felicis, First Round Capital, and Point72 Ventures, our founding team includes veterans from SpaceX, Helion, and Robinhood.
  • We have completed multiple deep-ocean deployments and are launching a long-term demonstration project this fall.
  • Today we run on a managed service provider.

Responsibilities

  • Run network infrastructure across two facilities: firewalls, switching, Wi-Fi, VPN, and ISP relationships, including new building deployments
  • Manage our security stack, including endpoint detection, anti-phishing, and monitoring, and lead phishing response and security awareness
  • Manage the managed service provider relationship: scope, budget, escalation paths, and the transition of routine work in-house
  • Implement device management and access controls that support ITAR/EAR compliance and a path toward NIST 800-171 readiness, working with our export controls counsel
  • Support mission and field IT: satellite connectivity, shoreside and vessel communications, and equipment readiness for offshore deployments
  • Own IT procurement and asset tracking, and partner with finance on budget, renewals, and vendor consolidation
  • Comfort operating with ambiguity, writing the documentation yourself, and making pragmatic build-versus-buy decisions
  • Endurance runs on its systems: the laptops, networks, identity, and security stack behind a team designing, building, and deploying power plants on the seafloor.
  • This role owns all of it.
  • You will be our first full-time IT hire, and you will own IT end to end.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of hands-on IT experience, including at least 2 years as the primary IT owner
  • Strong generalist skills across identity (Google Workspace), networking (Ubiquity), device management (Intune, Jamf, or similar), endpoint security, and chat (Slack)

Skills

  • Experience in an ITAR/EAR or CMMC / NIST 800-171 environment
  • Experience supporting labs, manufacturing floors, or field and maritime operations
  • Security or network certifications such as Security+, CISSP, or CCNA

Compensation

  • Comprehensive salary and equity packages

Benefits

  • Vision, Dental, Health insurance coverage
  • Competitive Compensation: Comprehensive salary and equity packages
  • Own end-user support, laptop and device lifecycle, and IT onboarding and offboarding for a fast-growing team
  • take over day-to-day support, device management, identity, and network operations across two Seattle facilities, and reshape the MSP relationship into a lean retainer for after-hours coverage and project surge.

Company info

  • Company-sponsored recreational dive certification
  • By leveraging modular design, manufacturing scale, efficient drilling, and latent cooling on the seafloor, we are pioneering a new category of energy that outperforms traditional sources on both environmental impact and cost.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • U.S. person status as defined under U

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