ABOUT FIREFLY AEROSPACE

As an end-to-end responsive space company, Firefly Aerospace is on a mission to enable our world to launch, land, and operate in space – anywhere, anytime. Our small- to medium-lift launch vehicles, lunar landers, and orbital vehicles allow us to service the entire lifecycle of government and commercial missions from low Earth orbit to the Moon and beyond. We utilize carbon composite structures, patented propulsion technologies, and common components across our vehicles to iterate quickly, improve reliability, and deliver payloads at a lower cost.

SUMMARY

The Network Administrator is responsible for deploying and maintaining the high availability and performance of Firefly’s IT compute, network, and storage infrastructure. This role will require experience in the deployment, administration, and troubleshooting of IT infrastructure supporting critical services for Firefly’s corporate and operations networks. This position will be an in-person role at our Wallops Island launch facility in Virginia.

Responsibilities:

• Deploy, maintain and monitor IT compute, storage, and network infrastructure, to ensure maximum uptime and performance.

• Perform regular patching and system updates across servers, workstations, and network devices in accordance with IT security and compliance standards
• Provide primary on-site IT services for the Wallops Island launch facility, and act as the on-site liaison between Firefly IT and NASA to coordinate technical requirements, compliance, and incident response.

• Maintain accurate and up-to-date documentation and reports of IT Infrastructure architecture, procedures, and change control records for Wallops Launch facility.

• Conduct IT audits, compliance checks, and readiness checks of systems critical to test and launch activities to ensure systems meet operational requirements
• Respond rapidly to incidents, performing diagnostics, root cause analysis, and remediation to minimize downtime during mission-critical operations.
• Support and maintain IP-based camera networks used for site surveillance, monitoring, and video coverage during test and launch operations.
• Support and maintain RTS intercom systems and other real-time communications platforms for launch operations.
• Install, maintain, and troubleshoot structured cabling systems (fiber and copper), ensuring performance and compliance with aerospace standards.

Requirements:

• 3-5+ years of hands-on experience in network/system administration, preferably in high-availability or aerospace/industrial environments.
• Experience with network monitoring and alerting platforms.

• Experience with deployment and administration of IT infrastructure hardware and software, including network switches and routers, wireless APs, servers and storage.
• Experience with Windows or Linux Server administration and patch management.
• Strong communication skills and collaboration experience with cross functional teams to resolve complex issues.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to think quickly and resolve mission critical, high-risk issues.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certifications such as CCNA, CompTIA Network+, or equivalent.
• Strong knowledge of Cisco, Arista, Palo Alto, or equivalent enterprise networking hardware.
• Proficiency with common virtualization hypervisors (VMware, Hyper-V, ProxMox)
• Experience in launch operations, aerospace manufacturing, or government-regulated environments (ITAR, NIST compliance).
• Familiarity with RF communications, telemetry, or hardened networks used in aerospace environments.
• Experience collecting and analyzing packet captures to troubleshoot network connectivity and performance issues.
• Experience with automation and scripting tools.

Firefly offers outstanding benefits for our employees, including generous health, dental and vision plans with low plan deductibles, parental leave, educational reimbursement, short term disability, pet Insurance, and flexible PTO options.

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Firefly Aerospace, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Firefly is governed based on 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.