Senior IT Systems Engineer

About the Team:

The Information Technology team at Relativity Space is responsible for all computing infrastructure (end-user, server, virtualization, and cloud), software and software services, videoconferencing, telecommunications services and equipment, networking, and information security. We work with and support the needs of all internal teams, providing critical infrastructure and services for all operations of the company. The complexity and scale of Information Technology needs at Relativity Space provides many unique opportunities to challenge and elevate strategic and tactical technical skillsets of our team members. We pride ourselves on developing innovative, effective, and highly scalable systems and processes to enable our workforce to design and operate the factory of the future, employing additive manufacturing technologies to build the world's most bad ass rockets. We foster and encourage growth, hold each other accountable, and collaborate extensively with our peers to provide best of breed services and infrastructure to our stakeholders, who happen to be a group of extraordinarily talented, committed, and hyper-achieving set of the greatest minds and people to work with on the planet.  

About the Role:

You’ll be responsible for an array of critical functions including overseeing critical IT infrastructure, managing sophisticated it services, and designing and managing highly reliable and powerful integrations, automations, scripted processes, orchestration, and other critical IT Operations focused responsibilities.  Collaboration is a key component of your role. You'll be working closely with several specialized IT teams, each excelling in their respective areas. These collaborations include interactions with IT Services, Engineering Applications, Enterprise Applications, Cybersecurity, DevOps, and Networking specialized individuals within IT, plus a vast array of key stakeholders across the organization including high-tech bleeding edge manufacturing specialists, rocket engineering experts, and various other business units.  You’ll lead (technically and strategically) integrations, implementations, and enhancement initiatives for much of our IT infrastructure, services, and resources.  You’ll routinely define IT system management processes and automations, and then cross-train those processes and lessons-learned to the rest of the team

About You:

• Technical Expertise in IT infrastructure, including a deep understanding of hardware, servers, virtualization, storage, services, platforms, etc.
• Management of active directory, domain policy, windows servers, linux servers, and configuration management
• Strong experience and creativity with automation and scripting (Python, PowerShell, Bash, etc.) with demonstrated success to facilitate integrations, date orchestration, migrations and deployments
• Strong experience and knowledge of cloud services (AZURE, AWS, etc.) and fundamentals of networking
• Experience building and managing enterprise grade data management and storage solutions
• Experience drafting policies and building configurations to compliance and regulatory specifications, with a preternatural inclination toward cybersecurity best practices

Nice to haves but not required: 

• Experience with ITAR compliant infrastructure management and design; experience with “gov” tier cloud service and platform providers
• Experience administrating and/or developing Atlassian platforms (including Jira and Confluence)
• Experience implementing, managing, and/or administrating Identity and Access Management platforms and supporting systems.
• Experience with HRIS systems and integrations with Active Directory and IAM solutions
• Experience with, and an understanding of, service frameworks (ITIL, ITSM, etc.)
• Startup and/or aerospace industry experience