About the Role
Aechelon Technology is seeking a skilled candidate to join our Platforms team to design, build, automate, and scale Windows-based storage systems. This role involves building standardized, repeatable, and highly automated Windows Server platforms integrated with storage technologies, going beyond traditional Windows administration.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the team to build and maintain scalable Windows-based storage systems, implementing designs established with designers and staff engineers.
- Build and refine standardized, repeatable Windows Server deployments that can be reliably shipped to customers.
- Support clustering, failover, and high-availability architectures within established platform designs.
- Provide input on architectural decisions that impact performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Develop and enhance automation for system provisioning, configuration management, deployment workflows, platform validation and health checks, and lifecycle management.
- Develop and maintain advanced PowerShell-based automation, expanding into APIs and other scripting languages where appropriate.
- Improve tooling that reduces manual configuration and supports deterministic system builds.
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines supporting Windows-based platform builds.
- Create automation that supports lifecycle management, including updates, patching, and configuration drift detection.
- Develop quality-of-life tooling to support System Engineers and customer deployments.
- Collaborate with hardware teams to provide structured feedback on performance, anomalies, and integration challenges.
- Follow security guidance from internal and customer-facing and help implement threat protection and best practices.
- Contribute to technical documentation, including system designs, release notes, integration workflows, and troubleshooting guides.
Requirements
- 5+ years of engineering experience and supporting Windows Server deployment environments (or equivalent).
- Solid working knowledge of Active Directory, Group Policy, Windows clustering and failover, Storage Spaces Direct, and Authentication systems.
- Strong PowerShell scripting and automation skills.
- Experience contributing to repeatable infrastructure deployments with an infrastructure-as-code mindset.
- Strong troubleshooting and systems analysis capabilities.
- Works independently with review at critical points.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced product engineering environment rather than traditional enterprise IT.
- Strong communication and documentation skills.
- Experience supporting hardware/software integrated systems.
- Exposure to enterprise security tooling and endpoint protection.
- Experience leading system upgrades or migration projects.
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code or configuration management tools.
- Knowledge of networking fundamentals, including VLANs, switching, and firewall rules.
- Exposure to compliance frameworks such as NIST 800-53 and 800-171.
- Familiarity with enterprise security tooling and system hardening.
- Familiarity with Linux-based storage solutions.
Skills
- PowerShell scripting
- Automation
- Infrastructure-as-code
- System provisioning
- Configuration management
- Deployment workflows
- Platform validation
- Health checks
- Lifecycle management
- Patching
- Updates
- Information assurance
- APIs
- CI/CD pipelines
- Configuration drift detection
- Troubleshooting
- Systems analysis
- Hardware/software integration
- Enterprise security tooling
- Endpoint protection
- System upgrades
- Migration projects
- Networking fundamentals
- VLANs
- Switching
- Firewall rules
- NIST 800-53
- NIST 800-171
- System hardening
- Linux-based storage solutions
Location
- CALIFORNIA
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years of engineering experience
Salary/Compensations
- $123,000 - $153,000 per year
Benefits
- Competitive base salary
- Company performance-based profit sharing
- 401k
- 100% employer paid health benefits (medical, dental, vision, life, std, ltd, and life insurance plans)
About the Company
- Aechelon Technology, Inc. is a leading producer of 3D simulator content, including Geospecific visual/sensor databases and realistic 3D models.
- We seek people who share our passion for real-time computer graphics and commitment to our mission of helping make our Nation’s pilots safer.
- We will give you a chance to work with some of the most talented people in the graphics industry.
Equal Opportunity
- Aechelon Technology is an equal opportunity employer.
- We are committed to providing access and opportunities to individuals with disabilities.
- If you are an applicant who is unable to fully utilize/access our application process because of a disability, Aechelon Technology will provide a reasonable accommodation.
- Please send an email to hr_team@aechelon.com to request that accommodation, and please be sure to include a detailed description of your requested accommodation, your name and preferred method of contact.
