Site Reliability Engineer (Infrastructure, Virtualization, & Compute)

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.

SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER (INFRASTRUCTURE VIRTUALIZATION & COMPUTE)

SpaceX is looking for an experienced engineer with deep working knowledge of virtualization infrastructure and compute. This employee will be a member of the Information Technology Infrastructure team and will provide expertise in virtualization/compute maintenance scaling and optimization in support of critical business functions. The ideal candidate will be flexible and flourish in a fast paced and challenging environment. They should be a self-starter self-motivator and possess ingenuity to excel at this position.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design install operate scale and optimize enterprise compute virtualization and storage platforms including hypervisor clusters purpose-built servers and high-performance storage (NAS SAN and object storage).
• Work with SpaceX engineers to gather requirements and to design deploy and support resilient high-performance systems for engineering production and mission workloads.
• Perform capacity planning and performance engineering and implement high-availability backup replication and disaster recovery for virtual machines datastores and storage arrays.
• Install configure patch and decommission servers hypervisor hosts and storage systems and contribute to hardware and platform standards.
• Automate provisioning patching and day-to-day operations with scripting templates and infrastructure as code to reduce toil.
• Document standards and best practices and partner with network facilities security and application teams on connectivity power and cooling access and workload placement.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a STEM discipline and 1 years of systems engineering experience; OR 3 years of systems engineering experience in lieu of a degree.
• Experience deploying and supporting Linux servers in physical and virtualized environments (e.g. VMware via automation).
• Experience with the Linux shell as well as configuring and extending Linux instances (e.g. kernel modules cgroups pki iptables interfaces).

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Experience in creating repeatable reliable scalable systems architectures with high availability fault tolerance performance tuning monitoring and statistics/metrics collection.
• Experience operating production virtualization platforms such as VMware vSphere/vCenter (clustering HA DRS vMotion datastore design) and/or Hyper-V or KVM.
• Experience architecting and operating enterprise storage including protocols and platforms such as NFS SMB/CIFS iSCSI Fibre Channel NVMe-oF NetApp Pure Storage and object storage.
• Deep expertise generating server and host design specifications (CPU memory NIC HBA local vs. shared storage) to meet defined performance availability and density requirements.
• Experience with array- and hypervisor-based snapshots replication and backup integration for virtual machine and storage recovery.
• Proven ability to diagnose compute and storage performance issues (IOPS latency queue depth CPU ready/co-stop datastore contention fabric/pathing).
• Experience implementing configuration management provisioning and workflow automation via infrastructure as code and CI/CD (e.g. Ansible AWX/Tower Puppet cloud-init Jenkins).
• Experience with programming and scripting languages such as Python PowerShell or Golang to automate day-to-day tasks and integrate with external systems through RESTful APIs.
• Experience implementing proactive alert and monitoring workflows and dashboards for Linux systems and virtualization platforms using Prometheus Grafana InfluxDB or similar technologies.
• Experience supporting and scaling containerized applications in Linux environments.
• Experience using automation frameworks (e.g. Ansible Terraform) to manage provisioning and post-provisioning lifecycles of infrastructure and Kubernetes installations.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

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

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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