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IT Infrastructure Engineer, Virtualization & Storage

SpaceX· Information Technology - Corporate
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Hawthorne, CA$130k - $175kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

IT Infrastructure Engineer focused on virtualization and storage to scale SpaceX data center platforms, including VMware, high-performance storage, and integration with Kubernetes and related infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Implement and maintain a scalable, robust VMware environment and identify efficiencies supporting critical applications
  • Design, implement, and maintain storage infrastructure across high-performance, capacity, archive, backup/recovery, and disaster recovery tiers
  • Architect and operate high-throughput, low-latency storage and support exabyte scale file systems (e.g., VAST,) for simulation, telemetry, and high-concurrency workloads
  • Administer enterprise storage platforms (NetApp, Pure FlashArray/FlashBlade, Cohesity, Scality) and manage access controls, permissions, and protocols (NFS, CIFS/SMB, iSCSI)
  • Perform data center deployments, monitor performance, and troubleshoot production issues across virtualization, storage, transport (RDMA), and protocol layers
  • Develop automation/tooling for monitoring, capacity planning, configuration management, and alerting; define standards for deployment and performance tuning
  • Collaborate with compute, networking, and application teams to align virtualization and storage strategies with workload requirements
  • Participate in on-call rotation, scheduled maintenance, and occasional physical installation support

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in information systems, computer science, engineering or related technical field and 3+ years of engineering experience in an enterprise environment; OR 5+ years of engineering experience in lieu of a degree
  • 1+ years of professional experience managing virtualized server environments
  • 5+ years of experience in IT storage engineering with enterprise platforms (NetApp, Pure Storage, Scality, Vast or similar)

Skills

Required:VMware managementStorage engineering (enterprise platforms)
Nice to have:KubernetesAutomation (Python/PowerShell/Ansible)RDMA / InfiniBand / RoCEv2Linux and Windows administration

Benefits

  • comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • short and long-term disability insurance
  • life insurance
  • paid parental leave
  • discretionary bonuses and stock/programs including Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • 3 weeks of paid vacation and 10+ paid holidays per year
  • paid sick leave per company policy
  • various discounts and perks
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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