Industrial OT Network Engineer: Design & Automation

InvestedintheMission; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking an IT Network Engineer (OT) to design and support industrial networks for production, test, and site operations. You will implement resilient OT topologies, procure hardware, and contribute to automation tooling while coordinating outages and on-call support during launches and campaigns.

The role requires strong networking and OSI knowledge, hands-on experience with industrial switches, SD-WAN, and multiple vendors, plus scripting and IaC skills in a fast-paced aerospace

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in STEM with 3+ years of professional network engineering experience.
• Alternative: 5+ years of professional network engineering with high school diploma or equivalent in lieu of a degree.
• Industrial OT networking experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design highly available OT networks for production, test, and site needs.
• Create resilient, scalable multi-site OT topologies.
• Evaluate and deploy network hardware: switches, firewalls, SD-WAN.
• Develop network automation tooling and configuration analysis.
• Coordinate outages for software updates and hardware refreshes.
• Publish root-cause analyses and post-mortem reviews.
• Provide on-call support during launches and campaigns.
• Tune monitoring to detect issues before impact.
• Create/update architecture drawings, IP/VLAN schemes, data flows.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on failure modes and redundancy.
• Gather requirements and draft implementation plans with stakeholders.

Skills

Industrial OT networking

OSI model

L2/L3 network design

Real-time/industrial networks

Vendor diversity in production

Scripting (Bash, PowerShell, Python)

Automation (Terraform, Ansible)

Linux/Windows administration

GitOps / IaC

Network monitoring & diagnostics

Security & segmentation (QoS, VLAN)

WDM & fiber optics

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or STEM field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

SpaceX is seeking an IT Network Engineer (OT) to design and support industrial networks for production, test, and site operations. You will implement resilient OT topologies, procure hardware, and contribute to automation tooling while coordinating outages and on-call support during launches and campaigns.

The role requires strong networking and OSI knowledge, hands-on experience with industrial switches, SD-WAN, and multiple vendors, plus scripting and IaC skills in a fast-paced aerospace