IT Windows Systems Engineer

SpaceX • Memphis, TN

2d

About The Position

SpaceX is seeking an experienced engineer with deep knowledge of Microsoft-based technologies to join its Information Technology Windows Infrastructure team. The role supports systems across SpaceX and calls for flexibility, a high degree of responsibility, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, challenging environment. The engineer will create and manage processes, systems, and tools that support SpaceX engineering teams.

The position works with other SpaceX engineers to gather requirements and research, evaluate, design, plan, deploy, and support Microsoft enterprise software platforms and related technologies. It also drives architecture, security, and automation designs and implementations for resilient, high-performance, scalable, and flexible systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a STEM discipline and 3 or more years of systems engineering experience, or 5 or more 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.
• Must meet ITAR requirements: be a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee, or be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

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.
• Knowledge of cryptography fundamentals, including PKI standards, data encryption, or key management.
• Expertise creating repeatable, reliable, scalable systems architectures with 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 for interacting with internal and external 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.
• Work with diverse groups and internal business units to design and deliver solutions and resolve problems proactively and promptly.
• Design, implement, and support architectures that account for interoperability, scale, efficiency, and business continuity across environments.
• Build PKI standards and protect access and data using key management systems, hardware security modules, certificate management, encryption methods, and related measures.
• Develop scripting and automation solutions to address issues at scale.

What This Job Offers

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