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IT Systems Engineer II
Job Location:
Job Location:
Redondo Beach, CA - USA
Yearly Salary:
$ 150000 - 185000
Yearly Salary:
Posted:
23 May 2026 (30+ days ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
26 August 2026
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
The IT Systems Engineer II at Impulse is responsible for designing implementing and optimizing infrastructure platforms that support engineering manufacturing and corporate operations. This role independently delivers complex infrastructure solutions and assumes ownership of core platform areas across hybrid datacenter and cloud environments.
Engineers at this level are expected to move beyond implementation into solution design automation development and long-term platform improvement. The Systems Engineer II plays a key role in improving scalability reliability and operational efficiency while ensuring infrastructure aligns with organizational security and compliance requirements.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement infrastructure solutions aligned with established architectural standards.
- Own and maintain core infrastructure platforms such as virtualization identity storage or cloud services. Lead complex system deployments upgrades and migrations.
- Engineer highly available and resilient systems supporting operational workloads.
- Evaluate performance and capacity requirements and implement improvements.
- Develop and maintain standardized infrastructure configurations.
- Improve system consistency across environments through engineering best practices.
- Establish deployment patterns and operational baselines.
- Reduce configuration drift through structured platform management.
- Design and implement automation for provisioning configuration and lifecycle management.
- Develop reusable scripts and tooling to reduce operational overhead.
- Contribute to infrastructure-as-code and configuration management practices.
- Improve deployment reliability through automation and validation workflows.
- Lead resolution of complex infrastructure incidents involving multiple systems.
- Perform deep technical analysis to identify systemic issues.
- Implement engineering improvements that prevent recurrence.
- Support incident response activities requiring cross-team coordination.
- Design infrastructure solutions aligned with cybersecurity and regulatory requirements.
- Implement secure configuration baselines and identity controls.
- Support audit readiness through proper system configuration and documentation.
- Ensure infrastructure supports controlled and regulated data environments.
- Provide technical guidance to administrators and junior engineers.
- Collaborate with network engineering security and application teams.
- Participate in technical planning and infrastructure roadmap discussions.
- Contribute to internal engineering standards and best practices.
Minimum Qualifications
- 6 years experience implementing and supporting enterprise infrastructure.
- Demonstrated experience designing infrastructure solutions independently.
- Advanced Windows Server administration and platform knowledge.
- Working proficiency administering Linux systems.
- Experience designing and operating virtualization environments.
- Strong automation and scripting experience (PowerShell required).
- Proven ability to troubleshoot complex multi-system issues.
- Solid understanding of infrastructure dependencies and networking fundamentals.
Preferred Skills and Experience
- 8 years experience implementing and supporting enterprise infrastructure.
- Experience supporting engineering manufacturing or lab infrastructure.
- Experience integrating on-premises infrastructure with cloud platforms.
- Enterprise storage architecture experience.
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code or configuration management tooling.
- Experience operating within regulated or compliance-driven environments.
Additional Information:
Compensation bands are determined by role level location and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related skills education experience technical capabilities and internal addition to base salary for full-time hires you may also be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of stock options and access to medical vision & dental coverage as well as access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
Impulse Spaces spacecraft manufacturing business is subject to U.S. export regulations including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR). This position requires applicants to be either U.S. Persons (i.e. U.S. citizen U.S. national lawful permanent U.S. resident (green card holder) an individual granted asylum in the U.S. or an individual admitted in U.S. refugee status) or persons eligible to obtain an export license from the U.S. Departments of State Commerce or other applicable U.S. government agencies. Learn more about the ITAR here.
Impulse Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Impulse Space is governed on the basis of merit competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race color religion gender national origin/ethnicity veteran status disability status age sexual orientation gender identity marital status mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
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