Sr. IT Windows Engineer

SpaceX • Memphis, TN

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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, supporting SpaceX's goal of enabling human life on Mars.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a STEM discipline and at least 5 years of systems engineering experience, or at least 7 years of systems engineering experience in lieu of a degree.
• At least 7 years of hands-on experience with Windows operating system engineering and architecture.
• Willingness to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
• Must meet the stated U.S. 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 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 using SCOM, Icinga, or equivalent.
• Experience with hybrid Entra ID and Active Directory environments.
• 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 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 internal and external customers, vendors, and management in formal and informal settings.

Responsibilities

• Work with SpaceX engineers to gather requirements; 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 across diverse groups and internal business units to design and deliver solutions and resolve problems proactively and promptly.
• Design, implement, and support architecture with consideration for interoperability, scale, efficiency, and business continuity across environments.
• Build PKI standards and protect access and data using technologies and practices such as KMS, HSM, certificate management, and encryption.
• Develop scripting and automation solutions to address issues at scale.

What This Job Offers

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