Sr. IT Windows Engineer

Space

X was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today Space

X is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.

Space

X is looking for an experienced engineer with deep knowledge and broad experience across Microsoft-based technologies. This employee will be a member of the Information Technology Windows Infrastructure team and will support systems all across Space

X. The ideal candidate will be flexible and flourish in a fast-paced and challenging environment, and will exercise a high degree of responsibility for the processes, systems, and tools you create and manage; all supporting the goal of making humanity an interplanetary species.

• Work closely with other Space
  
  X 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 Space
  
  X 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.

• High school diploma or equivalency certificate.
• 7+ years of hands‑on experience with Windows operating system engineering and architecture.
• Experience with Active Directory, Kerberos, and multi-platform authentication and identification environments.
• Experience (including the ability to set up, 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).
• Scripting experience in Power Shell, leveraging source code and version control tools.
• 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 Power Shell 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 Entra
  
  ID and Active Directory.
• Experience with configuration management, provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and other Dev Ops 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.

• Willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed.

Pay Range:
Sr. IT Systems Engineer: $135,000 - $180,000/per year
Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case‑by‑case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job‑related knowledge and skills, education,…