Mission-Critical IT Systems Administrator – Launch Ops

InvestedintheMission; Vandenberg Village (CA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

401(k) plan

Medical coverage

Parental leave

Paid vacation

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. IT Systems Administrator to support the networking, compute, and application needs of our launch environment. This role is critical to enabling safe, reliable, and high-cadence launch operations across multiple sites.

The ideal candidate thrives in mission-critical settings and acts as a technical generalist across IT disciplines. The candidate will design, deploy, and monitor IT infrastructure, provide on-call support during campaigns, and drive automation and IaC

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalency certificate.
• 5+ years of experience in IT systems administration.
• Experience with both Linux and Windows server administration.
• Experience designing, deploying, supporting and troubleshooting enterprise networks.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy and augment IT infrastructure including networking, server, and desktop hardware that directly supports mission-critical networks across the country.
• Provide direct IT support during launch and test campaigns.
• Perform periodic systems upgrades and maintenance in between critical operations, sometimes on weekends and evenings.
• Proactively monitor IT services and respond rapidly to incidents to ensure high availability and optimal systems performance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to proactively identify and resolve potential technical issues with systems deployments.
• Author and maintain documentation for IT systems, including systems overview, design drawings and operational procedures.
• Leverage automation tools and contribute to broader IT systems engineering and infrastructure-as-code initiatives.
• Ensure that systems are configured and maintained in compliance with industry and cybersecurity standards (e.g. ITAR, ISO, NIST).

Skills

IT systems admin

Linux

Windows Server

Network design

Automation

DevOps

Education

High school diploma or equivalency certificate

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Active Directory

VMware

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. IT Systems Administrator to support the networking, compute, and application needs of our launch environment. This role is critical to enabling safe, reliable, and high-cadence launch operations across multiple sites.

The ideal candidate thrives in mission-critical settings and acts as a technical generalist across IT disciplines. The candidate will design, deploy, and monitor IT infrastructure, provide on-call support during campaigns, and drive automation and IaC