📋 Job Overview
As an early member of Antares IT operations function, you will support the infrastructure required for software, engineering, manufacturing, and business teams to move quickly and securely. You will work hands-on across endpoints, identity and access management, network infrastructure, collaboration tools, conference rooms, cloud services, and internal applications while helping maintain the reliability and security expected in a regulated, government-facing environment.
🏢 About Antares
At Antares, our long-term mission is to make clean energy abundant from Earth to the Asteroid Belt. We’re fueled by the belief that advanced nuclear energy can strengthen our military, solve the climate crisis, elevate global living standards, and expand humanity's presence in outer space. To achieve our mission, we’re building mass-producible, inherently safe, deployable microreactors that can be used terrestrially, underwater, and in space.
The Antares team hails from SpaceX, the White House, the Pentagon, the Department of Energy, MIT, Rigetti Computing, General Atomics, Relativity Space, Ursa Major, and National Laboratories like Idaho, Oak Ridge, Los Alamos, and Savannah River. Antares has raised over $600M in venture capital from top-tier investors and has hundreds of million-dollars on contract with the military services, NASA, and the Department of Energy.
🎯 The Role
As an early member of Antares IT operations function, you will support the infrastructure required for software, engineering, manufacturing, and business teams to move quickly and securely. You will work hands-on across endpoints, identity and access management, network infrastructure, collaboration tools, conference rooms, cloud services, and internal applications while helping maintain the reliability and security expected in a regulated, government-facing environment.
✅ Key Responsibilities
- Provision, configure, and manage user accounts, endpoints, groups, licenses, and access controls across enterprise systems.
- Administer and maintain the Microsoft 365 environment, including Entra ID, Intune, Defender, Exchange, Teams, SharePoint, and related admin workflows.
- Deploy, configure, maintain, patch, and decommission Windows and macOS endpoints; support Linux systems and engineering workstations as needed.
- Support day-to-day IT operations by troubleshooting workstations, peripherals, servers, identity issues, VPN connectivity, conference rooms, and network incidents.
- Maintain and troubleshoot network infrastructure, including LAN/WAN, WiFi, VPN, DNS, DHCP, routing, VLANs, switching, cabling, and port-security/NAC concepts.
- Configure and support collaboration and conference-room technologies, including Microsoft Teams, Zoom, displays, cameras, audio systems, and room scheduling equipment.
- Manage endpoint lifecycle processes including imaging, enrollment, device preparation, patching, updates, inventory, asset tracking, and secure disposal.
- Administer endpoint protection, security certificates, encryption, device compliance policies, and patch management processes.
- Deploy, maintain, and secure in-house and cloud applications used by engineering, operations, manufacturing, and business teams.
- Deploy and maintain PSA/RMM, ticketing, monitoring, automation, and remote-management tools to improve visibility and response times.
- Document IT procedures, configurations, access decisions, support runbooks, and recurring workflows in a way that supports compliance and audit readiness.
- Assist with regulatory and customer compliance efforts, including logging, reporting, evidence collection, access reviews, and audit preparation.
- Support IT operations in manufacturing, lab, shop-floor, or regulated environments, partnering with engineering, facilities, security, and operations as needed.
📌 Required Qualifications
- 2+ years of hands-on IT support, systems administration, endpoint administration, or equivalent technical experience.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft 365 administration, including Entra ID/Azure AD, Intune, Defender, device enrollment, user lifecycle management, and access controls.
⭐ Desirable Experience
- Experience supporting and troubleshooting Windows and macOS endpoints in a business environment.
- Solid networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, routing, VLANs, VPN, WiFi, switching, and basic firewall concepts.
- Proficiency with PowerShell or similar scripting/automation concepts, plus comfort using command-line diagnostic tools.
- Demonstrated troubleshooting ability across workstations, peripherals, collaboration tools, network connectivity, identity, and business applications.
- Strong documentation habits and attention to compliance, configuration accuracy, and repeatable process execution.
- Experience with GCC High, defense, government-contracting, export-controlled, or other compliance-driven IT environments.
- Experience with Linux systems, Azure and/or AWS virtualization, and cloud-hosted infrastructure or applications.
- Hands-on experience with Ubiquiti/UniFi or similar switches, firewalls, wireless access points, cameras, physical access controls, and management applications.
- Experience with copper and fiber switching infrastructure, wireless deployment/tuning, NAC, port security, encryption protocols, keys, and certificates.
- Experience with ticketing, PSA, RMM, monitoring, patch-management, vulnerability-management, or endpoint-management platforms.
🎁 Benefits
As a growing Series B startup, the salary range is intentionally wide as we determine the most appropriate package for each individual, taking into consideration: years of experience, educational background, and unique skills and abilities as demonstrated throughout the interview process. Our intent is to offer a salary that is commensurate for the company’s current stage of development and allows the employee to grow and develop within a role. In addition to the significant stock option package, the estimated salary range for this role is posted: $85K – $120K • Offers Equity.
