The opportunity
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.
What you'll do
Design and implement highly available networks, carefully balancing various: routing and redundancy technologies depending on unique requirements between production and launch.
Design and maintain mission data center and site networks in accordance with: company network standards. Collaborating with adjacent infrastructure and enterprise teams.
Evaluate, procure, and deploy network hardware including switches, firewalls,: multiplexing and SDWAN appliances.
Contribute to ever-maturing network automation tooling; implementing: configuration analysis, linting, and scalability into the deployment framework.
Plan and coordinate network outage windows with stakeholders to perform: software updates, hardware refreshes, and general network maintenance (sometimes on weekends and evenings).
Troubleshoot and resolve network-related issues, publishing root cause: analysis (RCA) documentation and hosting retrospective data reviews.
What they're looking for
- Provide direct networking support during launch and test campaigns and be: on-call or provide real-time support as networking responsible engineer during operations.
- Proactively tailors network monitoring to provide ever more valuable: operational telemetry with emphasis on issue detection prior to operational impact.
- Continuously create and update network documentation, including architecture: overviews, design drawings, and operational procedures.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to proactively identify and resolve: potential technical issues with network designs, especially in regards to systemic, cascading failure modes, and superficial redundancy.
