Sr. IT Windows Engineer

SpaceX • Memphis, TN

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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 involves designing, deploying, and supporting enterprise software platforms and related technologies for demanding engineering teams. The ideal candidate is flexible, comfortable in a fast-paced and challenging environment, and responsible for the processes, systems, and tools they create and manage.

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 U.S. Government export-control requirements: be a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee, or be eligible to obtain required U.S. Department of State 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.
• Knowledge of 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, using 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 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, 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 system architecture with consideration for interoperability, scale, efficiency, and business continuity.
• Build PKI standards and ensure access and data are protected, including through key management, 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: Senior