IT Engineer
Cherokee, AL$120k - $170kFull-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
Hadrian is building autonomous factories to reindustrialize America. The IT Engineer will support day-to-day IT operations at the new F4 facility in Cherokee, AL, owning on-site IT, supporting production staff, managing local infrastructure, and coordinating with central IT.
Responsibilities
- Own all on-site IT support for facility employees and production staff
- Manage device lifecycle using asset management and MDM tools
- Manage ticket queue in Jira Service Management and drive issues to resolution
- Maintain local network and infrastructure health; escalate to central infrastructure teams as needed
- Serve as the on-call escalation point for F4 on-site support needs; local team headcount is expected to grow as the facility scales
- Support the IT buildout of the F4 facility in partnership with the Factory Deployment IT Lead and central IT teams
- Coordinate with facilities and construction on-site during construction to confirm electrical and low-voltage vendors are placing infrastructure correctly, and provide regular status updates
- Receive, stage, and deploy endpoint hardware, peripherals, and AV/conferencing equipment
- Own IT onboarding and offboarding for all employees at the site: hardware setup/retrieval, account provisioning/deprovisioning, access grants, and Day 1 readiness
- Serve as the on-site point of contact for IT questions and walkthroughs for new hires
- Hire, train, and lead a local IT team as the facility scales
- Enforce Hadrian's security tooling and policies on-site: EDR, MDM, and IAM
- Support CMMC Level 2 compliance requirements for CUI handling at the facility
- Coordinate with central IT and InfoSec on incidents, vulnerability remediation, and compliance reviews
- Manage local vendor relationships, hardware maintenance contracts, and ISP coordination
- Maintain accurate asset inventory for all on-site IT equipment
- Manage shipping and receiving of IT and infrastructure materials (switches, WAPs, and similar equipment)
Qualifications
- High degree of independence and accountability - self-reliant and proactive
- Strong ownership and ability to drive issues to resolution
- Strong networking fundamentals: LAN/WAN, VLANs, firewall administration, Wi-Fi
- Endpoint management experience with Intune, Mosyle, or FleetDM
- Familiarity with Okta for identity and access management
- Experience owning employee IT onboarding end to end
- Comfortable operating as a remote extension of a distributed team
- Manufacturing or industrial environment experience strongly preferred
- CMMC, ITAR, and CUI handling experience a plus
Skills
Required:Independent and proactive work styleNetworking fundamentalsEndpoint managementIdentity and access management
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans for employees
- 401k
- Relocation support may be provided for certain situations, based on business need
- Flexible vacation policy
- Equity
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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