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SpaceX · 1 day ago

IT Systems Engineer - Top Secret Clearance

Hawthorne, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$120K/yr - $160K/yr

5+ years exp

SpaceX is a company focused on developing technologies for human exploration of Mars. They are seeking an IT Systems Engineer with expertise in Microsoft-based technologies and networking to support their Information Technology team and SpaceX personnel.

Advanced MaterialsAerospaceManufacturingNational SecuritySpace Travel

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Work closely with other SpaceX IT administrators and engineers to gather requirements, research, evaluate, design, plan, deploy, and support enterprise software platforms and related technologies in a world-class environment that meets the needs of the demanding SpaceX engineering teams. Build highly-resilient, high-performance, scalable, and flexible systems

Take lessons learned and technology standards from the SpaceX Enterprise and apply them in smaller air-gapped environments

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

Make recommendations, justify, and implement improvements using an accepted change control methodology

Work within a diverse group to design and deliver creative solutions and resolve problems in a timely and proactive manner by interacting with internal business units

Define, document and follow standards and best practices for systems design, testing, and implementation

Drive scripting and automation to develop solutions to common problems

Qualification

Windows serversActive DirectoryNetworking technologiesLinux operating systemScriptingMicrosoft ExchangeConfiguration managementCommunication skillsProblem-solvingSelf-starter

Required

Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline and 5+ years of experience in IT systems; or 7+ years of experience in IT systems without a bachelor's degree

3+ years of experience with Windows servers in physical and virtualized enterprise level environments

3+ years of experience with Active Directory, Kerberos, and multi-platform authentication/identification environments

1+ years of experience with networking technologies and the Linux operating system environment

1+ year of scripting experience

Active Top Secret or TS/SCI with Polygraph

Preferred

Expertise in creating repeatable, reliable, scalable systems architectures, with high availability, fault tolerance, performance tuning, monitoring, and statistics/metrics collection

Expert working knowledge (including the ability to setup, configure, upgrade, manage, and troubleshoot) Windows-based systems and services such as DHCP, DNS, IIS, MS-SQL, NPS, etc

Experience with Enterprise Microsoft Exchange deployments

Expertise in source code and version control tools

Experience with configuration management, provisioning, infrastructure as code, and other DevOps concepts and tools

Strong familiarity with Windows Server 2016/2019 (i.e. AD, DNS, DHCP, etc)

Networking experience in IPv4, switching, routing, firewalls and HA architecture

Must be comfortable working with mission critical and sensitive systems, with a sense of urgency appropriate to the responsibilities

Excellent communications skills with the ability to communicate with internal/external customers, vendors, management etc. in both formal and informal situations