Senior IT Systems Engineer, Storage and Infrastructure

About the 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.

About the Role:

• 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

About You:

• 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

Nice to haves but not required:

• Familiarity with aerospace, manufacturing, or high-throughput data environments (telemetry, CAD, or test data)
• Experience implementing software-defined storage platforms such as Ceph, MinIO, or Red Hat ODF
• Background in container-native storage or Kubernetes persistent storage (CSI, Rook/Ceph, OpenEBS, Portworx)
• Exposure to single-namespace or global file systems and metadata-aware platforms