IT Systems Engineer - Top Secret Clearance

SpaceX

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Hawthorne, California

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PERMANENT

Updated 09/01/2026

Job Description

Job Summary

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

IT SYSTEMS ENGINEER - TOP SECRET

CLEARANCE&

SpaceX is looking for a Systems Engineer with deep knowledge and broad experience across Microsoft-based technologies, in addition to broader experience and capability with networking and Linux technologies. This employee will be a member of the Information Technology team and will support SpaceX personnel and systems. The ideal candidate will be flexible and flourish in a fast paced and challenging environment.& He or she should be a self-starter, self-motivator and possess ingenuity to excel at this position.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Work closely with other SpaceX IT administrators and engineers to gather requirements, research, evaluate, design, plan, deploy, and support 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.

Take lessons learned and technology standards from the SpaceX Enterprise and apply them in smaller air-gapped environments.&

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.

Make recommendations, justify, and implement improvements using an accepted change control methodology.

Work within a diverse group to design and deliver creative solutions and resolve problems in a timely and proactive manner by interacting with internal business units.

Define, document and follow standards and best practices for systems design, testing, and implementation.

Drive scripting and automation to develop solutions to common problems.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline and 5+ years of experience in IT systems; or 7+ years of experience in IT systems in lieu of a bachelor's degree.

3+ years of experience with Windows servers in physical and virtualized enterprise level environments.

3+ years of experience with Active Directory, Kerberos, and multi-platform authentication/identification environments.

1+ years of experience with networking technologies and the Linux operating system environment.

1+ year of scripting experience.

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Expertise in creating repeatable, reliable, scalable systems architectures, with high availability, fault tolerance, performance tuning, monitoring, and statistics/metrics collection.

Expert working knowledge (including the ability to setup, configure, upgrade, manage, and troubleshoot) Windows-based systems and services such as DHCP, DNS, IIS, MS-SQL, NPS, etc.

Experience with Enterprise Microsoft Exchange deployments.

Expertise in source code and version control tools.

Experience with configuration management, provisioning, infrastructure as code, and other DevOps concepts and tools.

Strong familiarity with Windows Server 2016/2019 (i.e. AD, DNS, DHCP, etc).

Networking experience in IPv4, switching, routing, firewalls and HA architecture.

Must be comfortable working with mission critical and sensitive systems, with a sense of urgency appropriate to the responsibilities.

Excellent communications skills with the ability to communicate with internal/external customers, vendors, management etc. in both formal and informal situations.&

ADDITIONAL

REQUIREMENTS

Active Top Secret or TS/SCI with Polygraph. Note that an active clearance may provide the opportunity for you to work on sensitive SpaceX missions. If so, you will be subject to pre-employment drug and random drug and alcohol testing.

Must be willing to do some travel domestically and globally (