Head of IT

As an early-stage company, CX2 operates with urgency and adaptability, building mission-critical capabilities in complex and highly regulated environments. We combine deep technical innovation with a strong commitment to security, reliability, and operational excellence in support of national defense objectives.

CX2 is seeking a Head of IT to define, build, and lead our security and corporate IT strategy from the ground up. This is a foundational leadership role responsible for securing our systems and building the IT and security capabilities, processes, and operating model required to support the company, while also owning the IT and security capabilities that enable the company to operate across R&D, corporate, production, and customer adjacent environments (collectively the enterprise environment), including establishing and enforcing security, risk, and compliance standards, including authority to require changes to systems and processes to meet security and regulatory requirements, that govern how those environments are designed, accessed, and operated, and supporting customer, audit, and regulatory requirements both CONUS and OCONUS.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You will actively design and implement systems, stand up infrastructure, and solve problems directly. Security and IT are not separate functions—you will own identity, endpoints, internal systems, and the controls that protect them, while driving the implementation of security, risk, and compliance practices across the enterprise. This role requires end-to-end ownership, including strategy, risk, implementation, and execution of all IT programs in a resource constrained environment.

This role requires operating effectively in the ambiguity of an early-stage startup, setting direction without complete information, and building scalable systems and processes from first principles across the enterprise environment.

The Head of IT will own strategy, roadmap, risk, compliance, architecture, international and data residency considerations, and major IT decisions. The Head of IT will own compliance and security program direction, including CMMC readiness associated controls execution, and the ongoing development of CX2’s security posture across the enterprise.