Integration IT Manager

Saronic Technologies•Austin, TX

About The Position

Saronic Technologies develops autonomous and intelligent platforms for maritime operations. The Integration IT Manager owns the end-to-end technical IT integration of newly acquired companies. This hands-on manager travels to acquired sites, works with local teams to assess their environments, and integrates infrastructure, networks, endpoints, identity, and security tooling into Saronic’s standard environment. The role serves as the senior IT presence on site and coordinates with HQ infrastructure, security, and help desk teams. Business systems such as ERP, CRM, HRIS, and finance are managed by a separate team; this position coordinates related dependencies, including identity, SSO, and network access, but does not own those systems. The role leads technical discovery and planning, integration execution, security and compliance alignment, support transitions, vendor and contract rationalization, and change management. It also maintains reusable integration playbooks, runbooks, and checklists and reports progress, risks, and blockers to IT and corporate development leadership. The position requires travel of 50–75%, including extended on-site stays and occasional short-notice trips.

Requirements

At least 7 years of experience in IT infrastructure and operations.
At least 2 years leading or substantially contributing to M&A IT integrations, carve-outs, multi-site consolidations, or similar work.
Hands-on working depth in networking, including routing, switching, wireless, firewalls, and VPN.
Hands-on working depth in identity, including Active Directory, Entra ID/Azure AD, SSO, domain migration, and tenant migration.
Hands-on working depth in endpoint management, including Intune, Jamf, imaging, and patching.
Experience with virtualization, cloud infrastructure, and core security tooling such as EDR, MFA, and SIEM.
Experience with email and collaboration migrations, such as Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace tenant-to-tenant migrations.
Ability to assess an undocumented environment and quickly develop a credible integration plan.
Strong written documentation skills, including producing diagrams and runbooks.
Comfort operating amid ambiguity, competing priorities, and aggressive timelines.
Willingness to travel 50–75%, including extended on-site stays and occasional short-notice trips.
Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with employees through changes to systems they built and rely on.
U.S. Person status required for export-control compliance.
Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.

Nice To Haves

Experience in defense, aerospace, manufacturing, or other regulated or industrial environments.
Familiarity with OT, lab, or shop-floor networks and production-environment constraints.
Experience establishing IT at new physical sites such as shipyards, factories, labs, or offices.
Prior work at a company integrating multiple acquisitions per year.
Relevant certifications such as CCNP, Azure/AWS, CISSP, or PMP.

Responsibilities

Lead on-site technical discovery at acquired companies, covering network topology and circuits, servers and storage, cloud tenants, identity providers, endpoints and management tools, security systems, licensing, vendors and MSP contracts, physical security and AV, and support processes.
Document current-state assessments, risk registers, and sequenced integration plans with effort estimates and cost impacts.
Drive network redesign and cutovers, including LAN/WAN, wireless, firewalls, VPN, SD-WAN, and circuit procurement or decommissioning.
Drive identity migration and tenant consolidation, endpoint re-imaging or enrollment in MDM and management tools, email and collaboration migration, server and workload migration or retirement, backup and disaster recovery alignment, and conference-room and AV standardization.
Bring acquired environments up to Saronic’s security baseline, including EDR, MFA, patching and vulnerability management, SIEM logging, privileged access controls, and removal of legacy administrative paths.
Identify and remediate compliance gaps related to NIST 800-171/CMMC, ITAR/export control handling, and SOC 2 as applicable; escalate matters requiring legal or security review.
Transition acquired sites from local support to the company help desk model, including ticketing, asset management, onboarding and offboarding workflows, knowledge base content, and on-site support coverage.
Help assess, onboard, and ramp acquired IT staff who join the company.
Catalog inherited contracts, licenses, and MSP relationships; recommend which to consolidate, renegotiate, or terminate; and track realized savings.
Partner with HQ infrastructure, security, and business systems teams to align field decisions with long-term architecture and support execution sprints.
Maintain reusable integration playbooks, runbooks, and checklists, improving them with each acquisition.
Report integration progress, risks, and blockers to IT and corporate development leadership.
Communicate with employees at acquired companies, set expectations, coordinate cutover communications, and minimize disruption.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical insurance; Saronic pays 100% of employee premiums and 80% of dependent premiums.
Dental and vision insurance; Saronic pays 100% of the basic-plan employee premium and 80% of dependent premiums.
Generous paid time off and holidays.
Paid maternity and paternity leave.
Competitive salary with opportunities for performance-based bonuses.
401(k) plan with company match.
Stock options.
Basic life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage.
Discounted pet insurance, including a 24/7 telehealth helpline.
Free lunch benefit and unlimited free drinks and snacks in the office.