Space Exploration Technologies-posted 3 months ago
$90,000 - $115,000/Yr
Full-time • Mid Level
Hawthorne, CA
1,001-5,000 employees
Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

SpaceX is looking for a highly skilled and knowledgeable IT Systems Administrator to support the networking, compute administration, and application support needs of our launch environment. This role will be pivotal to the enablement of safe and sustained launch cadence, directly supporting our goals of making humanity a multiplanetary species. Candidate must be comfortable working on mission-critical systems with a sense of urgency appropriate to the responsibilities while maintaining attention to detail and operational excellence.

  • Augment and deploy new IT infrastructure, including networking, server, and desktop hardware directly supporting mission critical networks across the country.
  • Perform periodic systems upgrades and patches in between critical operations, sometimes on weekends and evenings.
  • Monitor IT services and respond aggressively to incidents to maintain systems performance.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to proactively identify and resolve potential technical issues with systems deployments.
  • Author and maintain documentation for IT systems, from systems overview documents and design drawings to procedures.
  • Leverage automation tools and contribute to IT systems engineering efforts.
  • Ensure that systems are configured and maintained in compliance with industry and cybersecurity standards (e.g. ITAR, ISO, NIST).
  • 3+ years of experience in IT systems administration.
  • Hands-on experience with Linux or Windows server administration.
  • Experience with enterprise network administration and deployment.
  • Working knowledge of network protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, SNMP, NTP, PTP etc), firewalls administration and cybersecurity technologies.
  • Proficiency in scripting (Bash/Powershell/Python) and automation frameworks (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet).
  • Familiarity with Active Directory and multi-platform authentication/identification environments.
  • Experience with virtualization platforms and tools.
  • Understanding of Layer 1 configuration best practices and multiplexing technologies.
  • Working knowledge, including the ability to setup, configure, upgrade, manage, and troubleshoot, Windows-based systems and services (i.e. SCCM, Active Directory).
  • Exposure to real-time systems and industrial telemetry networks.
  • Experience with configuration management, provisioning, infrastructure as code, and other DevOps concepts and tools.
  • Excellent communications skills with the ability to communicate with internal/external customers, vendors, management etc. in both formal and informal situations.
  • Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
  • Access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
  • Short and long-term disability insurance.
  • Life insurance.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • Various other discounts and perks.
  • 3 weeks of paid vacation.
  • 10 or more paid holidays per year.
  • Accrual of paid sick leave.
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