Sr. IT Systems Engineer

SR. IT SYSTEMS ENGINEER

SpaceX is looking for an experienced engineer with deep knowledge and broad experience across Microsoft-based 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 world-class environment that meets the needs of the demanding SpaceX engineering teams.
• Build highly-resilient, high-performance, 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: 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: 

• 10+ years of hands-on experience with Windows operating system engineering and architecture. 
• Experience with Active Directory, Kerberos, and multi-platform authentication and identification environments.
• Experience (including the ability to setup, configure, upgrade, manage, and troubleshoot) with Windows-based systems and services, i.e. ADCS (Active Directory Certificate Services), ADFS (Active Directory Federation Services) in both physical and virtual environments.
• Scripting experience in PowerShell, leveraging source code and version control tools.

 PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE: 

• Experience with cryptography fundamentals: PKI standards, data encryption or key management.
• 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 single cmdlets, experience with writing larger scripts and automation-driven processes.
• Experience in building robust monitoring and automated remediation services for critical systems (SCOM, Icinga, or equivalent).
• Experience with both on-premises 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
• 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 Systems Engineer/: $135,000.00 - $180,000.00/per year  
 
Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related 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 long-term incentives, in the form of company stock, stock options, or long-term 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 long-term 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. Exempt employees are eligible for 5 days of sick leave per year.