IT Operations Lead
San Carlos, CAFull-timePosted 1 day agoStill listed today
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Job overview
The IT Operations Lead owns IT as a robotics company expands from one site to several. The role establishes the California site, brings additional sites to a consistent standard, and ensures new hires have the equipment and access they need. It covers infrastructure, employee devices, networking, security compliance, vendors, budget, automation, and support across sites.
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Full job description
IT Operations Lead You own IT for a robotics company going from one site to several and from a hundred people to many more. You set up our California site first, then bring the others up in parallel to the same standard, and you make sure every new hire has what they need on day one, wherever they sit. You decide what we run ourselves and which vendors run the rest, and you manage those vendors. Our floor is not an office: stations upload large volumes of data, operators carry devices, robots sit on the network.
What You’ll Do
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Build and scale IT infrastructure to support a rapidly growing startup
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Own employee hardware, including purchasing, setup, maintenance
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Manage employee access to company systems, including onboarding, offboarding, and permissions
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Own networking at every site: office, conference rooms, and the floor, where collection stations and robots need bandwidth, segmentation and uptime.
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Implement security measures to protect employee devices, internal systems, and company data
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Establish IT policies and own our side of security compliance: customer security questionnaires, SOC 2 readiness, data-handling rules with Legal.
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Select and manage the vendors that run what we do not: managed services, networking and cabling, ISP, AV, SaaS. Own the IT budget.
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Automate IT processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual work
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Make sure support works at every site, through a vendor or in person, and step in yourself when it matters.
What You’ll Bring
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8+ years, including time as the senior or sole IT owner at a company that scaled from one site to several.
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Experience managing employee devices, operating systems, and IT infrastructure
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Strong understanding of identity management, access controls, and IT security
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Hands-on with networking, including environments where equipment and devices, not just laptops, sit on the network.
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Has been through a security compliance effort (SOC 2 or customer audits) on the IT side.
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Experience automating IT workflows and improving operational efficiency
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Strong troubleshooting skills and ability to solve problems independently
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A proactive, hands-on mindset with the ability to build systems and processes from scratch. Has stood up at least one new site from empty space and run the vendors that kept it running.
How this job compares
Set against the 579 open IT Operations jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- California median$142–197K/yr41 salary ranges
- US median$29–48/hr44 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 53 open IT Operations jobs in California and 579 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Ankura3 open
- Databricks2 open
- Procter & Gamble2 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience — more than three in four IT Operations postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 446 postings).
- Education
- 84 of the 579 open IT Operations jobs (15%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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