At a glance
- Experience
- 5+ years experience
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- Starbase, TX
About the role
- SpaceX is looking for a Senior Operational Technology (OT) Network Engineer with experience in routing, switching, and wireless in industrial network environments.
- This position will design and support industrial and OT networks for production, test, site operations, and live data center build environments as part of the IT Network Engineering team.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement large-scale, 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: architecture overviews, design drawings, and operational procedures.
- Segment industrial networks from campus and corporate networks and maintain controls-network segmentation.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or other STEM discipline and 5+ years of professional network engineering experience; OR 8+ years of professional network engineering experience and high school diploma or equivalency certificate in lieu of a degree.
- Must be onsite; hybrid or remote work will not be considered.
- 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, Asylee, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State to conform to U.S. Government export regulations.
Preferred qualifications
- Industrial, utility, or operational technology network engineering experience.
- Expert understanding of the OSI model and network standards.
- Cisco, Arista, and Juniper data center-class switches.
- Wave Division Multiplexing (WDM) and fiber optics infrastructure.
- Scripting (Bash, PowerShell, Python) and automation frameworks (Terraform, Ansible).
- Linux and Windows system administration.
- GitOps and infrastructure as code, as a user and as a contributor.
- Industry-standard certifications such as CCNA, CCNP, CCIE, JNCIS, JNCIP, or JNCIE.
Workplace
- Role requires you to be onsite
- Occasionally 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
