Mission Systems OT Network Engineer — Launch Operations

SpaceX; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking an exceptional OT Network Engineer to support mission systems and launch operations. You will design and implement highly available networks, balancing routing and redundancy while maintaining data center networks per standards.

You will procure and deploy switches, firewalls, SDWAN appliances, and contribute to automation tooling. A STEM degree with 3+ years of experience or 5+ years without a degree is expected, with DoD/ITAR experience preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree with 3+ years in network engineering or 5+ years without a degree.
• Experience designing/deploying Layer 2/3 networks in latency-sensitive environments.
• Proficiency with multiple vendors and IaC tooling (Terraform, Ansible).

Responsibilities

• Design and implement highly available networks balancing routing and redundancy.
• Design and maintain mission data center/site networks per standards; collaborate with teams.
• Evaluate, procure, and deploy switches, firewalls, multiplexing and SDWAN appliances.
• Contribute to network automation tooling with configuration analysis and scalability.
• Plan outages with stakeholders for software updates and hardware refreshes.
• Troubleshoot network issues; publish RCA docs and review retrospectives.
• Provide on‑call support during launches and operations; monitor telemetry.
• Update network documentation including architecture drawings and procedures.

Skills

Layer 2/3 networks

Vendors: Cisco Arista Juniper

Scripting: Bash/PowerShell/Python

Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ans

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science/engineering or STEM

Tools

Cisco switches

Arista switches

Juniper switches

WDM fiber optics

Network monitoring tools

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

SpaceX is seeking an exceptional OT Network Engineer to support mission systems and launch operations. You will design and implement highly available networks, balancing routing and redundancy while maintaining data center networks per standards.

You will procure and deploy switches, firewalls, SDWAN appliances, and contribute to automation tooling. A STEM degree with 3+ years of experience or 5+ years without a degree is expected, with DoD/ITAR experience preferred.