Lunar Systems Administrator III Verified today
About the role
You'll work as part of a small, cross-functional team responsible for lunar network, IT, and communications infrastructure. Your focus is hands-on support of critical IT equipment and prompt, effective technology support for teams building, launching, and operating lunar landers.
This is a mission-critical role with direct impact on Blue Origin's lunar program and the history of space exploration.
What you'll do
- Configure, deploy, and maintain IT hardware including workstations, servers, hypervisors, switches, and printers
- Lead design and implementation of configuration management solutions
- Lead initiatives to enhance automation, improve deployment frequency, and reduce manual interventions
- Support availability, reliability, performance, monitoring, backup, and security for infrastructure solutions
- Configure, deploy, and maintain mission support systems including video and voice communications
- Build robust, fault-tolerant on-premises infrastructure for data systems control and monitoring
- Provide troubleshooting and diagnosis in mission-critical, time-sensitive situations
- Create software and hardware deployment baselines in accordance with STIGs
- Generate and update engineering drawings of system deployments and Interface Control Documents (ICDs)
- Manage inventory of ground infrastructure, asset tracking, spares procurement, and deployment
- Conduct regular audits of CI/CD pipelines for compliance with industry standards
- Adapt to new work scope and provide secondary support to unique systems such as weather monitoring, fiber optics distribution, RF distribution, PKI, and datacenter facilities management
Required qualifications
- US Citizen or Permanent Resident
- B.S. degree in information systems or computer science, or equivalent practical experience
- 6+ years professional IT experience minimum
- Demonstrated ability in Systems Administration and DevOps engineering
- Experience managing Linux and Windows server and desktop environments
- Practical knowledge of standard network protocols (DHCP, DNS, NPS, SQL, SMTP, NFS, etc.)
- Experience writing technical documentation and procedures
- Experience managing Active Directory environments, including custom account creation and management automation
- Hardware troubleshooting experience, ability to assemble and reconfigure workstation and server hardware
- Experience managing web servers with basic proficiency in HTML, JavaScript, and SQL
- Ability to climb ladders and work on elevated structures
- Ability to lift and install heavy server and communications equipment
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with Atlassian Confluence and JIRA (user and administration perspective)
- Strong experience leading complex DevOps projects from inception to completion involving multiple stakeholders
- Practical experience deploying and managing application security measures and cybersecurity compliance
- Experience with AWS cloud computing
- Building standardized Windows and Linux images with deployment tools and methodologies
- Experience with industrial controls software and infrastructure
- Knowledge of PKI, STIGs, disk encryption, and firewall administration
- Familiarity with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Netbox, Puppet, Chef, or GitLab
- Experience creating front-end software interfaces to interact with databases
- Database administration experience