Sr. IT Network Automation Engineer

Cape Canaveral, FL💼 Full-time💰 $160,000–$160,000🗓 2026-07-09 → 2026-07-31

Core

Build network automation tools and Python scripts to support switch configurations, backups, updates, logging, monitoring, and alerting for a large-scale corporate network supporting rocket and spacecraft manufacturing.

Role type

Senior IC network automation engineer

Builds

Automated network infrastructure tools and scripts

Domain

Aerospace manufacturing / Network engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Python, Go, shell, bash, Linux, network automation, DevOps, site reliability engineering

Preferred skills

Networking protocols (TCP/IPv4/IPv6), Git/Subversion, Puppet, Ansible, managing thousands of network assets

Technologies

Python, Go, Linux, Git, Subversion, Puppet, Ansible

Responsibilities

Build network automation tools for switch configurations and monitoring; Create Python scripts to automate manual network processes; Measure and improve network uptime and performance; Act as technical product owner for infrastructure tools; Innovate ways to scale with automation; Provide mentorship to junior engineers

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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About spacex

Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing20010Hawthorne, California, USFounded 2002

SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk to revolutionize space transportation, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary. SpaceX has gained worldwide attention for a series of historic milestones. It is the only private company ever to return a spacecraft from low-Earth orbit, which it first accomplished in December 2010. The company made history again in May 2012 when its Dragon spacecraft attached to the International Space Station, exchanged cargo payloads, and returned safely to Eart