SpaceX Sr. IT Windows Engineer at SpaceX responsible for designing, deploying, and supporting Microsoft enterprise software platforms. Focuses on building scalable, secure, and high-performance Windows systems.
Responsibilities
Work closely with other SpaceX engineers to gather requirements, research, evaluate, design, plan, deploy, and support Microsoft enterprise software platforms and related technologies in a world-class environment that meets the needs of the demanding SpaceX engineering teams.
Build highly-resilient, high-performance, scalable, and flexible systems.
Make recommendations, justify, and implement improvements using an accepted change control methodology.
Work within diverse groups to design and deliver creative solutions and resolve problems in a timely and proactive manner by interacting with internal business units.
Drive designs, implementations, and support in the following areas:
Architecture: making considerations for interoperability, scale, efficiency, and business continuity for users within and across environments.
Security: building PKI standards and ensuring access and data is protected. KMS, HSM, certificate management, encryption methods, etc.
Scripting and automation: developing solutions to address issues at scale.
Qualification
Experience with Active DirectoryExpertise in creating repeatableExpert level PowerShell experience
Required
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.
Preferred
Experience with Active Directory, Kerberos, and multi-platform authentication and identification environments.
Experience (including the ability to setup, configure, upgrade, manage, and troubleshoot) with Windows-based systems and services (i.e. Active Directory Certificate Services, Active Directory Federation Services in both physical and virtual environments).
Experience with cryptography fundamentals: 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/metrics collection.
Expert level PowerShell experience; beyond running cmdlets, experience with writing larger scripts and automation-driven processes.
Experience in building robust monitoring and automated remediation services for critical systems (SCOM, Icinga, or equivalent).
Experience with hybrid scenarios with EntraID and Active Directory.
Experience with configuration management, provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and other DevOps and/or SRE best practices, concepts and tools.
