Director, Enterprise Architecture and Infrastructure

Position Summary Help build the infrastructure that keeps a growing defense manufacturer designing, producing, and delivering. Red Cat Holdings manufactures military unmanned aircraft and surface vessels across multiple divisions and sites. We are seeking a technically accomplished leader who can connect the architectural decisions made today with the reliability and scale our business needs tomorrow.

Reporting to the VP of Enterprise Systems and Manufacturing Integration, you will be Red Cat’s highest technical authority for enterprise IT infrastructure. You will lead five direct reports across infrastructure systems engineering, systems administration, and network engineering, and direct infrastructure delivery through our managed service provider. Your expertise will help the team evaluate designs, resolve complex dependencies, and deliver dependable services.

Team members perform routine configuration and implementation; you remain accountable for technical decisions and results.

This role can be based at any of our manufacturing locations, with a strong preference for the corporate headquarters in Salt Lake City. Travel will be required several times per year.

Salt Lake City, Utah Valdosta, Georgia West Palm Beach, Florida San Diego, California Torrance, California st-jean-sur-richelieu, Quebec

Essential Duties and Responsibilities Architecture and technical leadership

Own the infrastructure architecture and roadmap across identity, networking, connectivity, cloud and on-premises hosting, compute, storage, virtualization, endpoint platforms, and shared services. Ensure designs work together across divisions, sites, tenants, and identity providers. Lead system integration efforts to minimize manual work and optimize data flow across the network.

Establish practical technical standards and lead design reviews. Challenge assumptions, assess failure modes and dependencies, document architectural decisions, and guide engineers through complex technical problems.

Plan infrastructure life cycles, capacity, modernization, and technical debt reduction. Evaluate consolidation and cloud migration against reliability, performance, cost, security requirements, and the team’s ability to operate the solution.

Partner with manufacturing, and engineering application owners on hosting, connectivity, identity, capacity, and recovery. Application owners retain application standards, configuration, and business process design.

Own endpoint platform engineering and its operating standards, partnering with the separate service desk and end-user support function on deployment, support handoffs, and recurring problems.

Team leadership and knowledge transfer

Partner with IT Operations and Project Management to build out the Systems roadmap, manage capacity, and determine prioritization.

Lead five direct reports, including employees located at other facilities. Set priorities and performance expectations, allocate work, coach engineers, develop skills, and recommend staffing changes based on service needs and capacity.

Coordinate the MSP’s infrastructure work with the internal team. Establish ownership, delivery expectations, escalation paths, and effective handoffs between engineering and operations.

Require maintained architecture and network diagrams, service ownership and configuration records, runbooks, recovery procedures, and architectural decision records. Make documentation updates part of completing infrastructure changes.

Build and verify support coverage so at least two people can support each critical service. Use cross-training, practical walkthroughs, and recovery exercises to demonstrate capability and reduce dependence on individual experts.

Reliable operations and responsible investment

Own infrastructure reliability, monitoring, capacity planning, backup integrity, and recovery readiness. Agree recovery objectives with business owners and demonstrate recoverability through documented tests.

Establish controlled changes with impact assessment, testing, rollback plans, and appropriate approvals. Guide infrastructure automation and repeatable deployments that reduce errors and improve supportability.

Lead infrastructure resolution of major incidents and ensure corrective actions address underlying causes. Communicate operational risks, dependencies, and progress clearly to technical and business stakeholders.

Implement infrastructure security requirements in partnership with Cybersecurity, which retains policy, control, and risk…