Senior IT Network Automation Engineer

SpaceX

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Starbase, TXBrownsville, TX
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3 days ago
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SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft with the mission of enabling humans to become a multi-planetary species. It operates the Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and Starship launch vehicles, as well as the Starlink satellite internet constellation.

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TL;DR · Senior IT Network Automation Engineer

As a Sr. IT Network Automation Engineer on the IT Network Engineering team, you will build tools to support a large and growing network infrastructure, including live data center build environments. You will develop Python scripts to automate manual processes, manage switch configurations, perform config backups, and handle software updates, logging, monitoring, and alerting. Serving as a technical product owner for infrastructure tools, you will collaborate with engineers to create maintainable systems while mentoring junior staff. The role requires expertise in Linux operating systems, source control tools like Git or Subversion, and automation frameworks such as Puppet or Ansible. You must possess knowledge of TCP, IPv4/IPv6, voice, video, and streaming protocols. This position addresses the critical challenge of maintaining a stable, reliable network supporting the design, manufacturing, and launching of rockets, spacecraft, satellites, and human spaceflight.

What you'll do

  • Build automation tools for switch configurations, backups, software updates, logging, monitoring, and alerting.
  • Create Python scripts to automate manual network processes.
  • Measure, maintain, and improve the uptime and performance of the network infrastructure.
  • Act as technical product owner for infrastructure tools and software used by the network engineering team.
  • Scale networks through automation and operational improvements.
  • Provide mentorship to junior engineers.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering or STEM field and 5+ years of experience in network automation, network engineering, or site reliability engineering.
  • High school diploma or equivalent with 8+ years of network automation experience is an acceptable alternative to a degree.
  • Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee for ITAR compliance.
  • Experience with networking protocols and traffic types including TCP, IPv4/IPv6, voice, video, broadcast, and streaming (preferred).
  • Proficiency in Linux operating systems (preferred).
  • Experience with automation in Python, Go, shell, bash, or other languages (preferred).
  • Familiarity with source control tools like Git or Subversion (preferred).
  • Experience with Puppet, Ansible, or other automation frameworks (preferred).

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