Sr. IT Windows Engineer

Job description

Job 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…
• 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.

Job requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a STEM discipline and 5+ years of systems engineering experience; OR 7+ years of systems engineering experience in lieu of a degree.
• 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 setup, configure, upgrade, manage, and troubleshoot) with Windows-based systems and services (i.e.
• 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).