TerraPower is a nuclear technology company based in Bellevue, Washington. At its core, the company is working to raise living standards globally through a more affordable, secure, and environmentally friendly form of nuclear energy along with innovations in medical isotopes to improve human health. In 2006, TerraPower originated with Bill Gates and a group of like-minded visionaries who evaluated the fundamental challenges to raising living standards around the world. They recognized energy access was crucial to the health and economic well-being of communities and decided that the private sector needed to take action and create energy sources that would advance global energy deployment. TerraPower’s mission is to be a world leader in new nuclear technologies, while developing innovators and future leaders in the nuclear field. As a result, the company’s activities in the fields of nuclear energy and related sciences are yielding significant innovations in the safety and economics of nuclear power, hybrid energy and medical applications – all for significant human health benefits.”
TerraPower is seeking to hire highly motivated and forward-thinking professionals who are interested in focusing on advanced nuclear reactor research and development and influencing change within the nuclear power landscape and bringing forward the critical production of medical isotopes. TerraPower is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
IT Manager, Infrastructure
TerraPower is seeking an IT Manager to lead a team responsible for maintaining and operating our infrastructure environment - compute, network, storage, identity, and backup/DR - across a mixed estate of government and public clouds, a private data center, and site-local compute. This hands-on leadership role bridges technology and business, ensuring infrastructure reliably supports engineering, operations, and corporate functions, while our international small office footprint continues to grow.
The IT Manager will oversee a team of systems engineers, network engineers, and HPC engineers. Systems engineers focus on server, storage, AI, and virtualization platforms which includes build, configuration, automation, and troubleshooting. Network engineers own routing, segmentation, WAN/SD-WAN, and secure access across sites and clouds. HPC engineers support accelerated compute platform infrastructure, and HPC scheduling for engineering and research workloads.
Responsibilities
Lead the team
Manage, coach, and develop a team of systems engineers, network engineers, and HPC engineers. Set clear expectations, give useful feedback often, and remove obstacles.
Own hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development for your team.
Balance workload across cloud initiatives, data center operations, international site standups, and production support demands.
Create the conditions for people to do good work: clear ownership, reasonable on-call rotations, documented runbooks, and enough slack to think.
Own the infrastructure portfolio
Serve as the operational owner for compute, network, telecom, storage, virtualization, identity, and backup/DR across multi-cloud, private data center, and site-local environments.
Maintain and enforce infrastructure standards, patterns, and guardrails so application, data, and AI platform teams can build without bespoke review each time.
Own the operational boundary between commercial and US Government cloud tenants, including controlled-data segregation and compliance-aligned configuration (NIST SP 800-171, CMMC, FedRAMP-relevant services).
Direct capacity planning and lifecycle management for HPC infrastructure supporting AI and engineering workloads.
Partner with Architecture, Applications,…