Sr. IT Windows Engineer
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 across SpaceX. The engineer will work in a fast-paced, challenging environment and take responsibility for the processes, systems, and tools they create and manage. The position involves designing, deploying, and supporting Microsoft enterprise software platforms and related technologies for SpaceX engineering teams. The engineer will build resilient, high-performance, scalable, and flexible systems; recommend and implement improvements through change control; and collaborate across teams to develop solutions and resolve problems. Work includes architecture, security, and scripting and automation, with attention to interoperability, scale, efficiency, business continuity, and protection of access and data.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a STEM discipline and 5+ years of systems engineering experience, or 7+ years of systems engineering experience in lieu of a degree.
- 7+ years of hands-on experience with Windows operating system engineering and architecture.
- Willingness to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
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 creating 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 EntraID and Active Directory scenarios.
- Experience with configuration management, provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and other DevOps or SRE practices, concepts, and tools.
- Ability to support deployment of HSMs and cryptographic solutions.
- Understanding of developing web and C#/.NET applications 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 internal and external customers, vendors, and management in formal and informal situations.
Responsibilities
- 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 promptly and proactively.
- Design architecture with consideration for interoperability, scale, efficiency, and business continuity across environments.
- Build PKI standards and help ensure access and data are protected, including through KMS, HSM, certificate management, and encryption methods.
- Develop scripting and automation solutions to address issues at scale.
Benefits
- Potential eligibility for long-term incentives in the form of company stock or long-term cash awards.
- Potential discretionary bonuses.
- Ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- 401(k) retirement plan.
- Short- and long-term disability insurance.
- Life insurance.
- Paid parental leave.
- Various other discounts and perks.
- Accrual of 3 weeks of paid vacation.
- Eligibility for 10 or more paid holidays per year.
- Paid sick leave pursuant to company policy.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
