IT Systems Engineer, Launch

SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.

IT SYSTEMS ENGINEER, LAUNCH

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.

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Experience with Linux and Windows server administration.
• Excellent experience with custom scripting (Bash/Powershell/Python) and automation frameworks (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet).
• Exposure to real-time systems and industrial telemetry networks.
• Experience with Atlassian Tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket.
• Expertise in creating repeatable, reliable, scalable systems architectures, with high availability, fault tolerance, and performance tuning.
• Experience implementing layer 3 network topologies.
• Experience working with Firewall administration.
• Experience working within compliance frameworks (NIST, ISO or similar).

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed.

ITAR REQUIREMENTS:

Learn more about the ITAR here.

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