SpaceX is looking a talented IT Systems Engineer to innovate and enhance our multi-site, mission-critical launch infrastructure. This role is essential for enabling safe, reliable, and sustained launch operations - directly advancing our mission to make humanity multiplanetary. We're looking for someone who excels at designing and supporting high-stakes systems with grit, simplicity, and customer-focused tenacity.
Responsibilities
- Optimize and consolidate existing automation scripts and tooling used to simultaneously support multiple classes of launch vehicles.
- Provide advanced support for Linux and Windows administration and troubleshooting.
- Increase mission critical IT infrastructure maturity with focus on alignment with NIST cybersecurity frameworks.
- Integrate industry-standard DevOps tooling and processes with existing procedures to streamline launch support infrastructure deployment and refresh.
- Collaborate with software and controls teams to integrate IT infrastructure build and configuration processes into standardized systems deployment and verification pipelines.
- Provide real-time IT support during launch and test operations, troubleshooting networking, hardware, and software issues in potentially high stress, time sensitive situations.
- Enhance network monitoring capabilities by identifying operational blind-spots, solving them with custom scripting, filtering, and efficient dashboards.
- Research and implement new virtualization, storage, and networking technologies in development environments for potential adoption.
- Maintain and enhance detailed IT system CMDBs, procedures, and contingency plans.
- Support rapid infrastructure expansion, providing design guidance, topology diagrams, and project coordination.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, math, physics, information systems, or other engineering discipline of and 3+ years of systems engineering experience; OR 5+ years of systems engineering experience in lieu of a degree.
- Experience with virtualization or containerization technologies (VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix, Docker, or Openshift).
- Experience with Active Directory and multi-platform authentication/identification environments.
- Working knowledge of GitOps concepts, tools, and processes.
