SpaceX

SpaceX

SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft with the aim of revolutionizing space technology and enabling human life on other planets.

Aerospace & Defense
10K-50K
Founded 2002

Description

  • Install, manage, scale, and optimize Kubernetes and RKE clusters in production using Ansible, Terraform, and related technologies.
  • Collaborate with SpaceX engineers to gather requirements, research options, design solutions, plan deployments, and support Kubernetes-based software platforms.
  • Build highly resilient, high-performance, scalable, and robust systems for demanding engineering teams.
  • Recommend, justify, and implement infrastructure improvements through formal change control processes.
  • Work with internal business units to design creative solutions and resolve problems proactively.
  • Define, document, and enforce standards and best practices for system design, testing, and implementation.
  • Foster collaboration and cross-training to grow Kubernetes expertise across the team.
  • Drive scripting, self-service, and automation to reduce administrative overhead and TOIL.
  • Participate in on-call rotation to respond to urgent after-hours issues when needed.

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.
  • Experience deploying and supporting Linux servers in physical and virtualized environments, such as VMware, using automation.
  • Experience with the Linux shell and configuring/extending Linux instances, including kernel modules, cgroups, PKI, iptables, and network interfaces.
  • Experience supporting and scaling containerized applications in Linux environments.
  • Experience using automation frameworks such as Ansible and Terraform to manage provisioning and post-provisioning lifecycles of infrastructure and Kubernetes installations.
  • Experience creating repeatable, reliable, scalable systems architectures with high availability, fault tolerance, performance tuning, monitoring, and metrics collection (preferred).
  • Experience with source control tools such as Git and Subversion and Git-based collaboration workflows (preferred).
  • Strong understanding of Linux Container Runtime (preferred).
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and GitOps tools such as Ansible, AWX/Tower, Vagrant, Puppet, Redfish, Jenkins, cloud-init, and ArgoCD (preferred).
  • Experience writing test automation for backward compatibility in automation processes and Kubernetes deployments (preferred).
  • Experience with Python or Golang and integrating with RESTful APIs to implement automation (preferred).
  • Experience installing, configuring, and troubleshooting Kubernetes internals, CNI, CRI and CSI plugins, load balancing, service mesh, and software-defined storage in cloud or on-premise environments (preferred).
  • Experience developing Kubernetes-based extensions such as webhooks, controllers, operators, and sidecars (preferred).
  • Experience implementing monitoring and alerting dashboards using Prometheus, Grafana, InfluxDB, or similar tools (preferred).
  • Experience with dynamic system configuration templating using Jinja, Jsonnet, YAML, and Helm (preferred).
  • Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
  • Must meet ITAR export-control eligibility requirements as a U.S. citizen/national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or otherwise eligible for required U.S. Department of State authorization.

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