OT Network Engineer

College Station, TXfull timeRemote

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SpaceX The OT Network Engineer designs, implements, and supports industrial and operational technology networks at SpaceX. They ensure network stability and reliability for production, test, and site operations supporting rocket and spacecraft manufacturing and launches.

Responsibilities

Design and implement highly available networks, balancing routing and redundancy for production, test, and site requirements.
Design and validate resilient, scalable multi-site OT network topologies for critical facilities.
Evaluate, procure, and deploy network hardware: switches, firewalls, multiplexing, and SD-WAN appliances.
Develop and contribute to network automation tooling, including configuration analysis and scalable deployment.
Plan and coordinate network outage windows with stakeholders for software updates, hardware refreshes, and maintenance.
Troubleshoot and resolve network issues. Publish root-cause analysis and host retrospective reviews.
Provide networking support during launch and test campaigns, including on-call or real-time support as the networking responsible engineer.
Tune network monitoring for operational telemetry and issue detection before impact.
Create and update network documentation: architecture overviews, design drawings, and operational procedures.
Work with cross-functional teams on network designs, including failure modes and redundancy.
Perform job walks with customers, vendors, and contractors to gather requirements and create implementation plans.
Segment industrial networks from campus and corporate networks. Maintain controls-network segmentation.

Qualification

IndustrialCiscoEnterprise and media protocolsSwitch port security featuresScripting (Bash

Required

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or other STEM discipline and 3+ years of professional network engineering experience; OR 5+ years of professional network engineering experience and high school diploma or equivalency certificate in lieu of a degree.

Preferred

Industrial, utility, or operational technology network engineering experience.
Understanding of the OSI model and network standards.
Cisco, Arista, and Juniper data center-class switches.
Wave Division Multiplexing (WDM) and fiber optics infrastructure.
Enterprise and media protocols.
Switch port security features, network segmentation, QoS, multicast, and redundancy protocols.
Network monitoring tools and layer-1 testing tools.
Scripting (Bash, PowerShell, Python) and automation frameworks (Terraform, Ansible).