Sr IT Systems Engineer

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 ofenabling human life on Mars.

SR. IT SYSTEMS ENGINEER

SpaceX is looking for an experienced engineer with deep knowledge and broad experience across Microsoftbased technologies. This employee will be a member of the Information Technology Windows Infrastructure team and will support systems all across SpaceX. The ideal candidate will be flexible and flourish in a fast paced and challenging environment and will exercise a high degree of responsibility for the processes systems and tools you create and manage; all supporting the goal of making humanity an interplanetary species.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work closely with other SpaceX engineers to gather requirements research evaluate design plan deploy and support Microsoft enterprise software platforms and related technologies in a worldclass environment that meets the needs of the demanding SpaceX engineering teams.
• Build highlyresilient highperformance scalable and flexible systems.
• Make recommendations justify and implement improvements using an accepted change control methodology.
• Work within diverse groups to design and deliver creative solutions and resolve problems in a timely and proactive manner by interacting with internal business units.
• Drive designs implementations and support in the following areas:
  • Architecture: making considerations for interoperability scale efficiency and business continuity for users within and across environments.
  • Security: building PKI standards and ensuring access and data is protected. KMS HSM certificate management encryption methods etc.
  • Scripting and automation: developing solutions to address issues at scale.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• 7 years of handson experience with Windows operating system engineering and architecture.
• Experience with Active Directory Kerberos and multiplatform authentication and identification environments.
• Experience (including the ability to setup configure upgrade manage and troubleshoot) with Windowsbased systems and services (i.e. Active Directory Certificate Services Active Directory Federation Services in both physical and virtual environments).
• Scripting experience in PowerShell leveraging source code and version control tools.
• Experience with cryptography fundamentals: PKI standards data encryption or key management.

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Expertise in creating repeatable reliable scalable systems architectures with high availability fault tolerance performance tuning monitoring and statistics/metrics collection.
• Expert level PowerShell experience; beyond running cmdlets experience with writing larger scripts and automationdriven processes.
• Experience in building robust monitoring and automated remediation services for critical systems (SCOM Icinga or equivalent).
• Experience with both onpremises and O365 Microsoft Exchange with an emphasis on security.
• Experience with SharePoint farms and content hosting.
• Experience with configuration management provisioning infrastructure as code and other DevOps and/or SRE best practices concepts and tools.
• Ability to support deployment of HSMs (Thales) and cryptographic solutions.
• Understanding of developing web and C#/. Net applications and build processes.
• Networking experience in IPv4 switching routing firewalls and high availability architecture.
• Comfortable working with mission critical and sensitive systems with a sense of urgency appropriate to the responsibilities.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate with internal/external customers vendors management etc. in both formal and informal situations.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:
Pay Range:

Sr. IT Windows Systems Engineer:$135000 $180000/per year

Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a casebycase basis and may vary based on the following considerations: jobrelated knowledge and skills education and experience.

Base salary is just one part of your total rewards package at SpaceX. You may also be eligible for longterm incentives in the form of company stock stock options or longterm cash awards as well as potential discretionary bonuses and the ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You will also receive access to comprehensive medical vision and dental coverage access to a 401(k) retirement plan short and longterm disability insurance life insurance paid parental leave and various other discounts and perks. You may also accrue 3 weeks of paid vacation and will be eligible for 10 or more paid holidays per year. Employees accrue paid sick leave pursuant to Company policy which satisfies or exceeds the accrual carryover and use requirements of the law.

ITAR REQUIREMENTS:

• To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (aka green card holder) (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. 1157 or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. 1158 or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.

SpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with SpaceX is governed on the basis of merit competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race color religion gender national origin/ethnicity veteran status disability status age sexual orientation gender identity marital status mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

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