IT Windows Systems Engineer

SpaceX • Memphis, TN

19h

About The Position

SpaceX is seeking an experienced engineer with deep knowledge and broad experience across Microsoft-based technologies. The role is part of the Information Technology Windows Infrastructure team and supports systems throughout SpaceX. The successful candidate will work in a fast-paced, challenging environment and take significant responsibility for the processes, systems, and tools they create and manage, supporting SpaceX’s goal of making humanity an interplanetary species.

The engineer will work with SpaceX engineers to gather requirements; research, evaluate, design, plan, deploy, and support Microsoft enterprise software platforms and related technologies; and build resilient, high-performance, scalable, and flexible systems. The role includes recommending and implementing improvements through change control, collaborating across groups to resolve problems, and leading design, implementation, and support across architecture, security, and scripting and automation. Applicants must meet the stated U.S. export-control eligibility requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a STEM discipline and at least 3 years of systems engineering experience, or at least 5 years of systems engineering experience in lieu of a degree.
• Experience with Windows operating system engineering and architecture.
• Willingness to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
• Meet the stated U.S. Government export-control eligibility requirements or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Active Directory, Kerberos, and multi-platform authentication and identification environments.
• Experience setting up, configuring, upgrading, managing, and troubleshooting Windows-based systems and services, including Active Directory Certificate Services and Active Directory Federation Services in physical and virtual environments.
• Experience with cryptography fundamentals, including PKI standards, data encryption, or key management.
• Expertise in repeatable, reliable, scalable systems architectures, including high availability, fault tolerance, performance tuning, monitoring, and statistics or metrics collection.
• Expert-level PowerShell experience, including writing larger scripts and automation-driven processes beyond running cmdlets.
• Experience building robust monitoring and automated remediation services for critical systems, such as SCOM, Icinga, or equivalent.
• Experience with hybrid Entra ID and Active Directory scenarios.
• Experience with configuration management, provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and other DevOps or SRE best practices, concepts, and tools.
• Ability to support deployment of HSMs and cryptographic solutions.
• Understanding of web and C#/.NET application development and build processes.
• Networking experience with IPv4, switching, routing, firewalls, and high-availability architecture.
• Comfort working with mission-critical and sensitive systems, with an appropriate sense of urgency.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate with customers, vendors, and management in formal and informal situations.

Responsibilities

• Work with SpaceX engineers to gather requirements and research, evaluate, design, plan, deploy, and support Microsoft enterprise software platforms and related technologies.
• Build highly resilient, high-performance, scalable, and flexible systems.
• Recommend, justify, and implement improvements using an accepted change control methodology.
• Collaborate with diverse groups and internal business units to design solutions and resolve problems proactively and promptly.
• Design, implement, and support system architecture with consideration for interoperability, scale, efficiency, and business continuity across environments.
• Build PKI standards and ensure access and data are protected, including through key management systems, hardware security modules, certificate management, and encryption methods.
• Develop scripting and automation solutions to address issues at scale.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level