At a glance
- Experience
- 3+ years experience
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- Starbase, TX
About the role
- SpaceX is looking for an Operational Technology (OT) Network Engineer with experience in routing, switching, and wireless in industrial network environments.
- This employee will be a member of the IT Network Engineering team, which is responsible for maintaining a stable, reliable, and diverse network supporting the design, manufacturing, and launching of rockets, spacecraft, satellites, and human spaceflight.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement highly available networks, balancing routing and redundancy for production, test, and site requirements.
- Design and validate resilient, scalable multi-site OT network topologies for critical facilities.
- Evaluate, procure, and deploy network hardware: switches, firewalls, multiplexing, and SD-WAN appliances.
- Develop and contribute to network automation tooling, including configuration analysis and scalable deployment.
- Plan and coordinate network outage windows with stakeholders for software updates, hardware refreshes, and maintenance.
- Troubleshoot and resolve network issues, publish root-cause analysis, and host retrospective reviews.
- Provide networking support during launch and test campaigns, including on-call or real-time support as the networking responsible engineer.
- Tune network monitoring for operational telemetry and issue detection before impact.
- Create and update network documentation such as architecture overviews, design drawings, and operational procedures.
- Segment industrial networks from campus and corporate networks while maintaining controls-network segmentation.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or other STEM discipline and 3+ years of professional network engineering experience; OR 5+ years of professional network engineering experience and high school diploma or equivalency certificate in lieu of a degree.
- Must be onsite.
- Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
- Must have a valid driver's license.
- Ability to lift heavy objects up to 35 lbs. unassisted.
- Ability to provide 24x7 on-call support in emergency situations and participate in an after-hours on-call rotation.
- Willingness to occasionally travel to other sites to support new company initiatives.
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, Refugee, or Asylee, or be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
Preferred qualifications
- Industrial, utility, or operational technology network engineering experience.
- Understanding of the OSI model and network standards.
- Cisco, Arista, and Juniper data center-class switches.
- Wave Division Multiplexing (WDM) and fiber optics infrastructure.
- Enterprise and media protocols.
- Switch port security features, network segmentation, QoS, multicast, and redundancy protocols.
- Network monitoring tools and layer-1 testing tools.
- Scripting (Bash, PowerShell, Python) and automation frameworks (Terraform, Ansible).
Workplace
- This role requires you to be onsite; hybrid or remote work will not be considered.
- Requires occasional travel to other sites to support new company initiatives.
Skills
- Routing
- Switching
- Wireless
- Firewalls
- SD-WAN
- Bash
- PowerShell
- Python
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Linux
- Windows
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- GitOps
- WDM
- Fiber Optics
