relativity

Senior IT Systems Engineer, Storage and Infrastructure

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At a Glance

Location
Long Beach, California, United States
Experience
7+ years
Posted
2026-02-20T18:15:24-05:00

Key Requirements

Required Skills

AWSAzureGCPKubernetes

Domain Knowledge

  • Aerospace
  • Engineering
  • Manufacturing

Requirements

7+ years of experience in enterprise infrastructure or systems engineering with focus on, and technical ownership of, storage architecture and systems design

Deep expertise in SAN/NAS, object storage, and storage networking (iSCSI, Fibre Channel, NVMe-oF)

Proven experience managing virtualization and compute environments (e.g., VMware, KVM, Proxmox, or Hyper-V)

Strong understanding of hybrid cloud and data-tiering strategies across on-prem and public cloud (Azure, GCP, or AWS)

Demonstrated ability to architect and maintain large-scale, high-availability storage systems for mission-critical applications

Experience with backup, disaster recovery, and data protection best practices in complex enterprise environments

Compensation & Benefits

$128,000

$176,000 USD

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

If you need a reasonable accommodation, please contact us at

accommodations@relativityspace.com

Responsibilities

Lead development of Relativity’s long-term enterprise storage architecture strategy to support telemetry, manufacturing, and test workloads at aerospace scale

Design and implement next-generation file, unstructured, block, and object storage systems that balance performance, scalability, and cost efficiency

Partner with IT Operations, DevOps, and Test Engineering to ensure infrastructure solutions integrate seamlessly with telemetry, simulation, and data-driven applications

Provide and enhance coverage and shared ownership of virtualization, compute, and storage infrastructure across multiple datacenters and cloud platforms

Drive innovation by evaluating and integrating emerging technologies such as NVMe-oF, software-defined storage, and single-namespace distributed systems

Empower rocket test and launch success through architectural ingenuity

Team

The IT team is responsible for the full scope of computing infrastructure, end-user systems, servers, virtualization, cloud, networking, software services, telecommunications, and information security. You’ll support every function across the company, from the production floor to flight operations, enabling Relativity’s world-class team to design, build, and launch rockets. The team balances near-term execution with long-term vision, developing scalable solutions and processes to enable the company's growth. The evolving complexity of our IT environment offers opportunities to stretch and sharpen problem solving and hands-on technical skills. We invest in our people, encouraging ownership, cross-training, and advancement, so our team can grow as fast and ambitiously as the company itself.