IT Manager

The role

The IT Manager will oversee IT systems, implement best practices, and drive technology initiatives. This role supports the growing site in Paducah, KY by ensuring infrastructure scales while maintaining security, efficiency, and reliability.

What you will do

• Research, evaluate, design, plan, deploy, and support Microsoft enterprise software platforms.
• Manage and maintain highly resilient, high-performance, scalable, and flexible systems.
• Make recommendations, justify, and implement improvements using an accepted change control methodology.
• Design and deliver creative solutions and resolve problems by interacting with internal business units.
• Define, document and follow standards and best practices for systems design, testing, and implementation.
• Ensure uptime of critical systems to the business.
• Drive improvements to optimize security and performance of the infrastructure.
• Build automation at scale to improve overall efficiency.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering discipline with 3+ years of systems administration experience; OR 5+ years of professional systems administration experience in lieu of a degree.
• Experience with servers in physical and virtualized environments.
• 5+ years of experience with Active Directory, Kerberos, Entra ID, and multi-platform authentication/identification environments.
• 5+ years of experience with Windows-based systems and services in both physical and virtual environments.
• 5+ years of experience in monitoring mission-critical enterprise environments.
• Ability to work extended hours and weekends as necessary.

Nice to have

• Expertise in creating repeatable, reliable, scalable systems architectures, with high availability, fault tolerance, performance tuning, monitoring, and statistics/metrics collection.
• Understanding of developing web, python, Powershell, and bash scripting applications and build processes.
• Experience with linux administration.
• Experience with automation platforms (Ansible, Salt, Chef).
• Networking experience in IPv4, IPSEC VPN, SSL-VPN, SD-WAN, switching, routing, firewalls and HA architecture.
• Comfortable working with mission critical and sensitive systems, with a sense of urgency appropriate to the responsibilities.
• Excellent communications skills with the ability to communicate with internal/external customers, vendors, management etc. in both formal and informal situations.

Benefits

• Company stock options
• Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
• 401(k) retirement plan
• HSA/FSA/Commuter benefits

About the company

General Matter is a mission-driven company applying a first-principles approach to solving the problem of nuclear fuel production. They are strengthening America’s capacity in nuclear energy to create clean energy at scale and energy security.