EVONA is partnering with an innovative space and aerospace technology company looking for a hands-on Test Technician II – Antenna to join its growing engineering and test team.
This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys working directly with antenna systems, RF hardware, test equipment, and complex electronics in a fast-paced development environment.
You’ll work closely with engineers to support antenna range operations, build and maintain test setups, execute antenna measurement campaigns, troubleshoot equipment, and deliver accurate test results.
What You’ll Be Doing
Execute antenna and antenna range test plans and report findings.
Configure and operate anechoic chambers, antenna ranges, positioners, RF cabling, and test equipment.
Set up and align antennas, fixtures, instrumentation, and devices under test.
Support near-field and far-field antenna measurements.
Assist with antenna pattern, gain, polarization, and RF performance testing.
Work with equipment including VNAs, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, DMMs, power meters, and DAQ systems.
Troubleshoot RF cabling, instrumentation, test setups, and range configurations.
Support calibration and verification of RF/antenna test equipment.
Maintain clean, organized, and repeatable test environments.
Follow test procedures and provide feedback to improve documentation and test processes.
What We’re Looking For
2+ years of experience as an Antenna Technician, RF Test Technician, Engineering Technician, Electronics Technician, or similar.
Hands-on experience with RF systems, antenna systems, or active electronics.
Comfortable working with technical test equipment and instrumentation.
Experience with antenna measurements or antenna range operations is highly desirable.
Exposure to phased arrays/AESA systems would be a major advantage.
Experience with RF cabling, mechanical fixtures, and hardware integration.
Ability to read schematics, engineering drawings, diagrams, and test procedures.
Strong troubleshooting skills and attention to detail.
Comfortable working hands-on in a fast-paced engineering environment.
Why This Opportunity?
You’ll get hands-on exposure to cutting-edge antenna and RF technology, including active phased-array systems, while working alongside engineers developing advanced aerospace and communications hardware.
Location: Westminster, Colorado Work arrangement: Full-time, on-site
Location: Seattle, WA Work arrangement: On-site Experience: 8+ years (Flexible)
An innovative space technology company in Seattle is seeking a Senior FPGA Engineer to lead RTL design and FPGA development for advanced radar systems. You will play a key role in translating radar algorithms into reliable, mission-critical firmware while working across hardware, software, mechanical, and signal-processing disciplines.
This position is ideal for an experienced engineer who can independently own complex projects, make sound architectural decisions, and deliver high-quality solutions on schedule in a fast-moving startup environment.
The Role
Partner with a multidisciplinary engineering team to define and refine firmware requirements.
Architect, design, and implement embedded firmware for a radar sensor payload.
Develop control and signal-processing functions in Verilog or VHDL.
Evaluate implementation complexity, maintainability, and FPGA resource requirements, including logic cells, embedded memory, and DSP slices.
Produce technical trade studies to support architecture and implementation decisions.
Integrate RTL designs onto FPGA and SoC platforms through synthesis, place and route, timing analysis, and timing closure.
Lead bring-up, verification, and validation of FPGA designs on prototype and flight hardware.
Collaborate with radar algorithm, electrical, software, and mechanical engineers to build dependable embedded systems.
Support the recruitment, interviewing, and hiring of additional engineering team members.
Required Skills and Experience
BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
At least 8 years of embedded firmware development experience, ideally involving radar or other mission-critical systems.
Strong RTL design experience using Verilog and/or VHDL, including work on satellite or aerospace applications.
Hands-on experience bringing up and verifying RTL-based designs on target hardware.
Experience integrating FPGA or SoC designs, including synthesis, place and route, and timing analysis.
Familiarity with low-speed interfaces such as I2C, SPI, UART, and RS-422.
Ability to read and interpret electrical schematics.
Experience with Git, CI pipelines, code reviews, and version-control workflows.
Ability to work independently, stay organized, and deliver in a lean, rapidly evolving environment.
Preferred Experience
Experience in any of the following areas would be valuable:
Distributed digital system design and implementation.
Clock-domain crossing and timing closure.
AMD UltraScale+ platforms.
High-speed ADC and DAC interfaces, including JESD204.
Signal-processing algorithm implementation in RTL.
Embedded architectures involving multiple FPGAs and peripheral interfaces such as SPI, UART, GPIO, I2C, and Ethernet.
Efficient, low-latency data movement between FPGAs, processors, storage devices, and networking interfaces.
Ethernet and TCP/IP networking stacks.
Radar, satellite, aerospace, or other high-reliability applications.
Eligibility and ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance.
You do not need to meet every listed qualification. Engineers with strong FPGA fundamentals, relevant mission-critical development experience, and the ability to learn quickly are encouraged to apply.
Our client are a new exciting Space startup looking for a Lead Electrical Engineer to take ownership of the electrical architecture and hardware development of our space drones from the ground up. This is a full lifecycle role. You won’t inherit a mature spacecraft electrical system or own one small piece of a larger program. You’ll take hardware from a blank sheet through architecture, design, build, integration, qualification and ultimately flight.
What You’ll Own:
Own the electrical development of their space drones across the full spacecraft lifecycle
Define the vehicle electrical architecture from the ground up, including component selection, interfaces, power and avionics integration
Take electrical hardware from initial requirements and architecture through detailed design, prototyping, build, test, qualification and flight
Select and qualify COTS hardware, balancing performance, reliability, cost and speed of development
Work hands-on with hardware, including building, debugging and troubleshooting electrical systems
Own electrical integration across the vehicle, working closely with flight software, GNC, autonomy and mechanical engineering
Develop and execute electrical test and validation strategies for both individual hardware and the integrated vehicle
Help build a comprehensive but lean engineering development unit (EDU) that allows the team to rapidly integrate, test and iterate on spacecraft hardware
Drive hardware readiness and own electrical go/no-go decisions for integration and deployment
Why Join?
Real ownership. You’ll own the electrical system across its entire lifecycle, from the first architecture decisions through to hardware operating in orbit. This is not a narrow subsystem role.
A founding-level role. You’ll be a core technical leader in the business, with meaningful equity and involvement in the decisions that shape both the vehicle and the company.
Build, test, learn, repeat. Our client is designing around high flight volume and rapid iteration. The goal is to build approximately 100 vehicles per year, creating far more opportunities to test hardware, learn from it and improve the next vehicle than a traditional multi-year spacecraft development cycle.
Build something that flies. If you’ve taken spacecraft electronics from requirements through design, integration, qualification and flight, and want to do it again with significantly more ownership, this role gives you that opportunity.
Requirements:
Significant experience developing electrical systems or avionics for spacecraft
Demonstrated full lifecycle hardware development experience, from initial requirements and architecture through design, build, integration, test and qualification
Strong hands-on electrical engineering background, with the ability to design, build, debug and test hardware rather than solely managing its development
Experience integrating electrical hardware within a multidisciplinary spacecraft or similarly complex aerospace system
Comfortable selecting components and defining architectures from the ground up
Comfortable operating in an early-stage environment where you’ll own your discipline while contributing across the wider vehicle and company
If you’ve owned spacecraft electrical hardware across the full development lifecycle and want the responsibility of taking a vehicle from a blank sheet of paper through build, qualification and ultimately into orbit, we’d like to hear from you.
Our client is a well-funded commercial space station company building the next generation of human habitats in orbit. They take an incremental, hardware-rich approach, and they have already flown and operated their own spacecraft. Their first crewed station module is due to launch soon, with further modules and new product lines to follow.
The company has hundreds of engineers and its own manufacturing and operations facilities in Southern California. Its long-term roadmap includes government stations and habitats beyond low Earth orbit.
The role
This is a hands-on engineering leadership role owning the thermal and fluid systems that keep crew alive and hardware working on a commercial space station. You'll report to the Director of Thermal, Environmental and Life Support Systems.
You'll lead a team of three mid-level mechanical engineers, which is growing. You'll also contribute directly to architecture, design and test. The hardware you build will fly, and you'll support it all the way to on-orbit operation.
What you'll do
Technical ownership
Own the architecture and performance of thermal control hardware, including fluid loops, tubing and trays.
Lead hardware through its full lifecycle: design trades, manufacturing, qualification, launch prep and on-orbit operation.
Drive rapid prototyping and iterative testing to mature designs quickly.
Oversee analyses, requirements and integration with avionics, software and mission operations.
Lead internal and external design reviews to human-rated reliability and safety standards.
Deliver manufacturable designs, working closely with technicians, manufacturing and integration teams.
Leadership
Lead and mentor a team of mechanical engineers, setting technical direction and priorities.
Guide design decisions, trade studies, analyses and test plans.
Manage workloads, develop your engineers and deliver on schedule.
What you'll bring
These are listed in the order the hiring team weights them.
Flight-vehicle fluid systems. You have architected, built and operated a fluid system on a flight vehicle, such as a thermal loop, propulsion feed system or similar.
Structural and mechanical design. You have strong design fundamentals and can back them up with hand calcs and analysis.
Engineering leadership. You have at least one year leading or mentoring engineers.
Also required:
A bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or a related discipline
5+ years of hands-on hardware experience (fabrication, assembly and/or testing)
End-to-end product ownership, and the ability to walk through specific problems you personally solved
First-principles thinking, curiosity beyond your own subsystem, and comfort solving novel problems independently
Nice to have
Experience on crewed or human-rated hardware
Rotating machinery, such as pumps or rotary fluid couplings
Siemens NX, GD&T and tolerance analysis
Structural analysis in FEMAP or ANSYS
Hands-on familiarity with machining, welding, brazing and tube bending
Leadership in a fast-paced hardware development environment
Package and practicalities
Base salary: $155,000 – $220,000, calibrated to experience
Equity: included for all full-time employees
Relocation: support available
Benefits: medical, dental and vision for you and your dependents; 20+ days' vacation; paid parental leave; 401(k); free dinners and onsite coffee
Location: onsite in Long Beach, CA, with up to 5% travel
Hours: occasional evening or weekend support during critical mission phases
Export control: this role requires access to ITAR-controlled information, so applicants must be U.S. persons (U.S. citizens, green card holders, or granted asylees/refugees)
How to apply
This role is managed exclusively by EVONA, the specialist space and defence recruitment firm. For a confidential conversation, contact Sam Wiltshire, Practice Lead, at s.wiltshire@evona.com.
What if your next spacecraft started with a conversation?
A customer comes to you with a mission.
They know what they want to achieve in orbit. Your job is to help determine how we make it happen.
What does the spacecraft need to do? What are the mission constraints? How do power, communications, propulsion and the wider satellite architecture come together? What trades need to be made? And how do we turn that initial mission concept into a spacecraft that can actually be built, tested, launched and operated?
We’re looking for an experienced Systems Engineer to join a rapidly growing international small satellite company in Los Angeles.
This isn't a role where you'll simply manage requirements.
You'll sit at the intersection of the customer, the mission and the engineering teams responsible for building the spacecraft.
You'll take high-level customer objectives and translate them into system and subsystem requirements, working closely with hardware and software engineers to develop the right technical solution.
One day you might be discussing mission requirements with a customer.
The next, you're working through a power or link budget, evaluating a subsystem trade-off, reviewing a satellite architecture or helping the engineering team understand how a change impacts the wider mission.
You'll be involved throughout the lifecycle — from the first mission discussions and technical proposal through design, integration, testing and ultimately deployment.
We're particularly interested in people who have already spent 5+ years designing and developing nanosatellites or small satellites and understand how the pieces of a spacecraft fit together.
You'll ideally bring experience across areas such as:
• Spacecraft system and subsystem requirements • Small satellite/nanosatellite architecture • Communications, power and propulsion systems • Mission, power, link and delta-V budgets • Technical trade studies and system-level analysis • STK, GMAT or similar mission-analysis tools • SysML/UML and graphical system modelling • DFMEA and engineering risk management • Python, C or C++ • Jira and Confluence • Customer-facing technical discussions and proposals
Experience supporting US Government or defence customers would be particularly valuable.
And then there's the location.
You'll be based in the Los Angeles area, right in the middle of one of the world's largest concentrations of space and defence companies, customers, launch providers and engineering talent.
You'll also collaborate internationally with engineering teams across Europe, with opportunities for occasional international travel.
This environment won't suit everyone.
It's fast.
It's technical.
It's delivery focused.
And you'll be expected to take ownership rather than wait for somebody else to solve the problem.
But if you're the type of Systems Engineer who wants to understand the entire spacecraft rather than one small piece of it, you'll have the opportunity to work on genuinely challenging missions and next-generation satellite technology.
You must be based in Los Angeles or willing to relocate to Southern California and be a US citizen or US permanent resident due to ITAR/EAR requirements.
Salary: $165,000–$215,000 + health insurance, matching 401(k) and team performance bonus.
Are you passionate about shaping the future of humanity's presence in space? Lunar Outpost, a trailblazer in space robotics, invites you to join our team! Lunar Outpost is dedicated to creating a sustainable presence in space, while also driving positive impacts here on Earth. We are seeking a talented Senior Autonomy Machine Learning Engineer.
As a Senior Autonomy Machine Learning Engineer, you will research, develop, train, evaluate, and deploy machine learning models for Lunar Outpost’s lunar rovers, command-and-control platforms, terrestrial robotic systems, and orbital assets. Working at the intersection of robotics, autonomy, AI, and space exploration, you will develop technologies that enable robotic systems to perceive their environment, interpret operator intent, reason about mission objectives, generate plans, and safely execute complex tasks with reduced operator oversight. Your work will include transformer-based architectures, vision-language models, multimodal foundation models, robot learning, and intelligent planning and decision-support systems. You will help build datasets, evaluation frameworks, software infrastructure, and deployment pipelines that support applications ranging from natural-language vehicle control to onboard reasoning, anomaly detection, mission summarization, and multi-robot supervision. You will collaborate closely with robotics, software, simulation, and command-and-control engineering teams to transition emerging AI research into reliable capabilities.
Take the #NextLeap with Lunar Outpost and work on the Pegasus LTV, which will carry NASA astronauts farther than they've ever been before on the lunar surface!
Key Responsibilities:
Research, design, train, fine-tune, and evaluate transformer-based machine learning architectures for autonomous robotic and command-and-control applications
Develop vision-language-action models, vision-language models, and other multimodal models that connect operator intent and sensor observations to robot plans and actions
Build capabilities for natural-language command interpretation, task decomposition, mission planning, action generation, operator decision support, and autonomous task execution
Develop human-robot teaming capabilities that enable operators to efficiently supervise and command multiple robotic assets
Create systems for mission summarization, anomaly detection, situational awareness, course-of-action generation, and operator-reviewable recommendations
Integrate machine learning models with robotic platforms, simulation environments, command-and-control software, and autonomy frameworks
Conduct hardware-in-the-loop tests, field tests, and structured demonstrations to validate capabilities under realistic operating conditions
Participate in design reviews, trade studies, technical risk assessments, test-readiness reviews, and demonstrations
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
3 to 5 years of relevant professional, academic, or research experience developing machine learning systems, autonomous systems, or intelligent robotic applications
Experience developing and evaluating deep learning models using Python and a modern machine learning framework such as PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow
Experience in at least one of the following areas:
Vision-language models or multimodal foundation models
Robot learning, imitation learning, or reinforcement learning
Natural-language planning, tool use, or agentic systems
Autonomous planning, reasoning, or task execution
Experience preparing datasets, implementing training pipelines, defining evaluation metrics, and analyzing model performance
Strong software engineering skills, including experience writing maintainable and testable software
Experience with Linux-based development environments, Git, and collaborative software development workflows
Ability to translate research concepts into working prototypes and evaluate those prototypes against measurable system objectives
Ability to communicate complex technical concepts, experimental results, limitations, and risks to multidisciplinary teams
Comfortable working in a research-oriented, agile, and interdisciplinary environment where requirements and technical approaches may evolve rapidly
U.S. Person
Preferred Qualifications:
Master’s degree or Ph.D. in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field
Experience developing or fine-tuning VLMs, VLAs, large language models, or multimodal transformer architectures
Experience with robot foundation models, action tokenization, multimodal policy learning, hierarchical policies, or language-conditioned control
Experience applying supervised fine-tuning, parameter-efficient fine-tuning, preference optimization, imitation learning, or reinforcement learning to foundation models
Experience with robotics middleware and autonomy frameworks such as ROS2
Experience integrating learned models with robot perception, planning, control, or command-and-control systems
A record of technical innovation demonstrated through deployed systems, open-source contributions, publications, patents, or significant project achievements
Compensation & Benefits: Compensation level and base salary are competitively structured and thoughtfully determined based on factors such as relevant skills, experience, education, and the scope of the role.
Comprehensive health coverage: Medical, dental, and vision benefits, with 70% of premiums covered by the employer
Paid time off: Three (3) weeks per year of vacation
Retirement plan: Up to 4% employer match on 401(k) contributions
Paid holidays: 11 company-recognized holidays
Parental leave
Educational reimbursement opportunities to support company objectives, continued learning, and career development
Lunar Outpost Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Lunar Outpost Inc. does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. All employees, including executives and human resources personnel, are expected to conduct themselves with professionalism and treat others with dignity and respect in accordance with this policy.
We are looking to add a Senior RF Test Engineer to our team. If you enjoy working in a startup environment and are passionate about developing critical test systems for leading-edge satellite, spacecraft, and aerospace communication systems, we would like to hear from you.
In this position, you are responsible for the design, analysis, and implementation of engineering test plans and procedures. The ideal candidate possesses a strong combination of hardware and software knowledge with proficiencies in RF measurements, test equipment (VSAs, VSGs, VNAs, etc.), test architectures, and automation. The successful candidate will work closely with multi-disciplinary teams to address company-wide hardware test needs. Experience with phased array testing is preferred.
Core day-to-day responsibilities include collaborating with design and test engineering teams to develop test requirements, mapping requirements to reusable test architectures and procedures, implementing test plans and procedures, and logging and presenting results to key stakeholders. Additional responsibilities include lab and equipment management and guiding key equipment purchase decisions.
Senior-level test engineers are distinguished by an ability to architect RF test systems, to draw insightful conclusions from test results, and to participate in “design for test” planning and review from the early stages of RF product development. Test engineers are core members of the technical team.
The successful candidate will present engineering design review materials to our customers and executive team, as well as participate in proposal-writing efforts. As such, excellent written and verbal communication skills are required.
JOB REQUIREMENTS AND MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor of Science (BS) or higher degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering from an accredited university or institution.
Minimum of 5 years of experience with a bachelor’s degree or 4 years of experience with a master’s degree. Industry experience in design, analysis, and implementation of RF test systems required.
High proficiency with RF measurements (Linearity, NSD, EVM, etc.).
Test architecture design and development including scripting, test executives, hardware, and measurement abstraction layers.
Proficiency with statistics and metrology as related to RF test design.
Hands-on experience with lab instruments such as digital oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, RF signal generators, and vector signal analyzers.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE
Familiarity or hands-on experience with phased array testing.
Programming or scripting experience (Python, MATLAB, C/C++, etc.)
Understanding of RF and mixed-signal hardware (e.g. amplifiers, filters, ADCs/DACs, antennas) and its effects on test design.
Locations: Denver, CO / Los Angeles, CA / Washington, D.C.
Type: Full-time, hybrid
About the Company
We are partnering with a fast-growing space software company developing mission-management and command-and-control technology for U.S. Government space programs.
The team supports a mixture of defense, intelligence, and civil space missions, including NASA-related programs, and is looking to develop the next generation of technical program leadership as its customer base and program portfolio continue to grow.
The Role
We are looking for a Mission Project Lead to work closely with engineering teams and Technical Program Managers to drive the day-to-day execution of government space programs.
This is not a traditional project-management position. The role is expected to remain approximately 50% technical, making it particularly well suited to a software engineer, systems engineer, systems architect, product owner, or similar technical professional who has started taking on broader ownership and coordination responsibilities.
The long-term opportunity is to develop into a Technical Program Manager, taking on increasing ownership of customer programs as the company grows.
What You’ll Be Doing
Work directly with software and systems engineering teams to drive execution against mission priorities and milestones
Maintain visibility across technical tasks, owners, dependencies, deadlines, and completion criteria
Identify technical, resource, and coordination blockers and drive them through to resolution
Facilitate planning sessions, stand-ups, milestone reviews, and other engineering team cadences
Continue contributing technically while taking on increasing responsibility for program execution
Coordinate across engineering, product, program, and leadership teams
Provide clear updates on progress, risks, blockers, and upcoming milestones
Support customer and government-facing discussions as your responsibilities grow
Help translate program objectives into clear, actionable engineering work
Develop toward ownership of larger technical programs and eventual TPM responsibilities
What We’re Looking For
3+ years of experience in a technical environment such as:
Software engineering
Systems engineering
Systems architecture
Mission operations
Space or ground systems
Technical product ownership
Scrum / Agile delivery
Experience taking ownership beyond your individual technical tasks
Strong organizational skills and the ability to keep multiple technical activities moving simultaneously
Comfortable identifying blockers, asking questions, and following actions through to completion
Experience working closely with engineering teams in an iterative or Agile environment
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Comfortable collaborating across technical and non-technical teams
Previous mentoring, technical leadership, project ownership, Scrum Master, or Product Owner experience is beneficial
Space, government, defense, or NASA program experience is advantageous but not essential
Must be eligible to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance; an active clearance is not required
Ideal Profile
You may currently be a Software Engineer, Systems Engineer, Systems Architect, Product Owner, Scrum Master, or Technical Lead who enjoys staying close to the engineering but increasingly finds yourself:
coordinating other engineers;
resolving blockers;
driving technical work to completion;
mentoring colleagues;
communicating with customers or stakeholders; and
taking ownership for delivery rather than simply completing your own tasks.
If you want to remain technically involved while developing toward Technical Program Management, this role offers a clear progression path.
Mission Project Lead
Locations: Denver, CO / Los Angeles, CA / Washington, D.C.
Type: Full-time, hybrid
About the Company
We are partnering with a fast-growing space software company developing mission-management and command-and-control technology for U.S. Government space programs.
The team supports a mixture of defense, intelligence, and civil space missions, including NASA-related programs, and is looking to develop the next generation of technical program leadership as its customer base and program portfolio continue to grow.
The Role
We are looking for a Mission Project Lead to work closely with engineering teams and Technical Program Managers to drive the day-to-day execution of government space programs.
This is not a traditional project-management position. The role is expected to remain approximately 50% technical, making it particularly well suited to a software engineer, systems engineer, systems architect, product owner, or similar technical professional who has started taking on broader ownership and coordination responsibilities.
The long-term opportunity is to develop into a Technical Program Manager, taking on increasing ownership of customer programs as the company grows.
What You’ll Be Doing
Work directly with software and systems engineering teams to drive execution against mission priorities and milestones
Maintain visibility across technical tasks, owners, dependencies, deadlines, and completion criteria
Identify technical, resource, and coordination blockers and drive them through to resolution
Facilitate planning sessions, stand-ups, milestone reviews, and other engineering team cadences
Continue contributing technically while taking on increasing responsibility for program execution
Coordinate across engineering, product, program, and leadership teams
Provide clear updates on progress, risks, blockers, and upcoming milestones
Support customer and government-facing discussions as your responsibilities grow
Help translate program objectives into clear, actionable engineering work
Develop toward ownership of larger technical programs and eventual TPM responsibilities
What We’re Looking For
3+ years of experience in a technical environment such as:
Software engineering
Systems engineering
Systems architecture
Mission operations
Space or ground systems
Technical product ownership
Scrum / Agile delivery
Experience taking ownership beyond your individual technical tasks
Strong organizational skills and the ability to keep multiple technical activities moving simultaneously
Comfortable identifying blockers, asking questions, and following actions through to completion
Experience working closely with engineering teams in an iterative or Agile environment
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Comfortable collaborating across technical and non-technical teams
Previous mentoring, technical leadership, project ownership, Scrum Master, or Product Owner experience is beneficial
Space, government, defense, or NASA program experience is advantageous but not essential
Must be eligible to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance; an active clearance is not required
Ideal Profile
You may currently be a Software Engineer, Systems Engineer, Systems Architect, Product Owner, Scrum Master, or Technical Lead who enjoys staying close to the engineering but increasingly finds yourself:
coordinating other engineers;
resolving blockers;
driving technical work to completion;
mentoring colleagues;
communicating with customers or stakeholders; and
taking ownership for delivery rather than simply completing your own tasks.
If you want to remain technically involved while developing toward Technical Program Management, this role offers a clear progression path.
Imagine arriving at work knowing the systems you're responsible for aren't supporting another ordinary corporate office.
They're supporting a team building spacecraft.
EVONA is partnering with a fast-growing international space technology company that is expanding its US operations in LA and building the infrastructure, engineering capability and teams required to support its next phase of growth.
At the centre of that expansion sits IT.
As Senior IT Systems Administrator, you'll become the primary IT resource for the US operation — responsible for keeping its people connected, its infrastructure reliable, its cloud environments secure and its systems compliant with the demanding requirements of the US government and defence ecosystem.
This isn't a role where you'll spend your day forwarding tickets to somebody else.
You'll own things.
What will you actually be responsible for?
Your environment will span everything from the laptop sitting on an engineer's desk to government-regulated cloud infrastructure.
You'll support employees when technology gets in their way, troubleshoot hardware and software issues and manage the workstations, servers, networks and devices that keep the LA and Denver operations running.
But that's only the beginning.
You'll administer Microsoft GCC High across Exchange Online, SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, Intune and Entra ID, alongside Azure Government infrastructure and AWS GovCloud environments.
Identity and access will sit firmly within your world.
You'll manage onboarding and offboarding, user provisioning, MFA, role-based access, privileged accounts and permissions across both local and cloud environments.
You'll also have significant responsibility for cybersecurity.
That means monitoring endpoints and infrastructure, investigating suspicious activity, responding to security incidents, managing vulnerabilities, maintaining patching and system-hardening programmes and continuously improving the controls protecting the organisation.
When something doesn't look right, you'll investigate it.
When something could be more secure, you'll improve it.
And when the organisation grows, you'll help make sure the technology and security architecture can grow with it.
Security isn't an afterthought here
The company operates within an environment where government and defence customers expect considerably more than a password policy and antivirus software.
You'll help maintain and strengthen compliance with frameworks and requirements such as:
CMMC | NIST 800-171 | FedRAMP | ITAR | DFARS
You'll maintain security documentation, inventories, audit evidence, access reviews, logs and control records and help ensure the organisation is ready when customers or auditors need evidence that controls are actually being followed.
You'll also evaluate encryption technologies and protocols including AES, RSA, ECC and TLS/SSL, considering how they're applied to data at rest and in transit.
That includes disk encryption, certificate handling and key management in environments aligned with FIPS 140-2/140-3 requirements.
You'll support backups, restoration testing, disaster recovery and business continuity exercises too.
Because in this environment, resilience matters just as much as security.
You'll have a lot of technology to play with
Depending on the environment, you'll be working across technologies including:
Microsoft GCC High
Azure Government
AWS GovCloud
Microsoft Entra ID / Active Directory
Microsoft Intune
Microsoft Defender
Microsoft Sentinel / Security Center
Windows Server
EDR and endpoint security
Firewalls, VPNs and networking
Identity and privileged access management
Vulnerability and patch management
Monitoring and logging platforms
Encryption and key management
You'll also manage and troubleshoot the physical infrastructure behind the operation — switches, routers, storage, wireless networks, firewalls, internet connectivity and office IT equipment.
So if you're someone who enjoys being genuinely hands-on rather than specialising in one tiny corner of an enterprise IT department, you'll have plenty to get involved with.
Who are we looking for?
We're looking for someone with at least five years of experience across systems administration, infrastructure engineering, IT operations, cybersecurity or a closely related field.
You'll ideally have a degree in IT, Computer Science or Cybersecurity, although equivalent practical experience is equally interesting.
You'll need strong experience within Windows-based enterprise environments and Microsoft 365.
Experience with Microsoft GCC High, Azure Government and AWS GovCloud would be particularly valuable because these environments will form an important part of your responsibility.
You should also be comfortable with:
Active Directory and Entra ID, Group Policy, DNS and DHCP; TCP/IP, VLANs, routing, VPNs and firewalls; endpoint security and EDR; device management and encryption; vulnerability remediation; system monitoring and logging; incident investigation and response.
Experience supporting organisations working within CMMC, NIST 800-171, FedRAMP, ITAR, DFARS or similar regulated environments would be highly advantageous.
But technical knowledge alone isn't enough.
You'll be the person people turn to when something isn't working.
So we're looking for someone who can troubleshoot calmly, communicate clearly, document properly and explain technical problems to people who don't necessarily speak IT.
Why apply?
Because this is an opportunity to join while the US operation is still being built.
Rather than inheriting an enormous corporate environment where everything was designed ten years ago and changing anything requires six committees, you'll have the opportunity to influence how infrastructure, security and IT operations develop as the organisation grows.
You'll work alongside engineers and technical teams developing next-generation space technology, while collaborating with colleagues across the company's international offices.
You'll have autonomy, direct access to leadership and the opportunity to recommend better technology, architecture, processes and security controls when you see an opportunity to improve something.
There will also be opportunities for occasional international travel and collaboration with the company's European teams.
What’s on offer?
Salary: $100,000 – $130,000 USD
The final salary will depend on experience and technical background.
You'll also receive:
Health insurance coverage
Matching 401(k) plan
Generous team performance-based bonus
Autonomy and direct access to leadership
Travel and conference opportunities
International collaboration
Ongoing learning and career development
One final thought
Plenty of companies need someone to administer Microsoft 365, manage their network and keep their cloud infrastructure running.
Far fewer can offer you the opportunity to do it while helping build the US technology infrastructure behind an international spacecraft company.
If you like the idea of owning an environment rather than simply maintaining one — and you want your next IT challenge to involve space, government technology and serious cybersecurity — we'd love to hear from you.
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