IT Windows Systems Engineer

SpaceX; Memphis (TN); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a systems engineer to collaborate across engineering teams to design, deploy, and support Microsoft enterprise platforms. You will build resilient, scalable systems and drive improvements through formal change control processes.

You will design for security, interoperability, and high availability, leveraging PKI, Active Directory, Kerberos, and automation with PowerShell across hybrid environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or STEM, or 5+ years of systems engineering experience.
• Experience with Windows OS engineering and architecture.
• Strong PKI, data encryption, and key management knowledge.
• Experience with Active Directory, Kerberos, and multi‑platform authentication environments.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with SpaceX engineers to gather requirements, research, design, plan, deploy, and support Microsoft enterprise platforms.
• Build highly‑resilient, scalable systems and implement improvements via change control.
• Drive architecture decisions for interoperability, scale, and business continuity.
• Develop PowerShell automation and monitoring/remediation services (SCOM, Icinga) in hybrid environments.

Skills

Active Directory

Kerberos

PowerShell

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

DevOps

C#/.NET

Networking

PKI

Monitoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or STEM

5+ years systems engineering experience

Tools

SCOM

Icinga

Windows Server

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

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.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a STEM discipline and 3+ years of systems engineering experience; OR 5+ years of systems engineering experience in lieu of a degree. Experience with Windows operating system engineering and architecture.

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

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. Ability to support deployment of HSMs and cryptographic solutions. Understanding of developing web and C#/. Net applications and build processes. Networking experience in IPv4, switching, routing, firewalls and high availability architecture. Comfortable working with mission critical and sensitive systems, with a sense of urgency appropriate to the responsibilities. Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate with internal/external customers, vendors, management etc. in both formal and informal situations.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

Willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed.

ITAR REQUIREMENTS:

To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here . SpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with SpaceX is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status. Applicants wishing to view a copy of SpaceX’s Aff… or applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application/interview process should reach out to [e-mail] .