Sr Platform Infrastructure Engineer, AI Transformation
Maxar Technologies1 day ago
Westminster, CO, USASenior
Base Salary
$128k - $187k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines with automated testing, quality gates, artifact management, release promotion, rollback, and deployment verification.
- Automate deployment, scaling, configuration, and monitoring of cloud infrastructure using Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and Google Cloud services including Cloud Run.
- Own platform reliability through SRE practices, including service-level objectives, monitoring, alerting, incident response, root-cause analysis, and operational reviews.
- Build Python-based internal tools and platform capabilities that reduce operational toil and improve developer experience.
- Lead performance optimization for services, infrastructure, Cloud Run workloads, databases, and supporting platform components.
- Design and operate observability covering logs, metrics, traces, health checks, dashboards, and actionable alerts.
- Partner with development teams to improve application architecture, scalability, reliability, operability, code quality, and cost efficiency.
- Build, deploy, and maintain on-premises environments at customer sites, including installation, upgrades, configuration, diagnostics, and lifecycle support.
- Support software deployment models spanning cloud, customer data centers, and edge environments.
- Implement security, compliance, change management, incident response, and operational-readiness practices.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience as a full-stack or backend software developer who can write maintainable production code.
- Professional experience developing in Python and working with APIs, services, databases, automated tests, and source-control workflows.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure automation and technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and Google Cloud, including Cloud Run.
- Ability to troubleshoot distributed-system infrastructure, deployment, availability, latency, capacity, and performance issues.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills for partnering with engineering, product, security, and customer-facing teams.
- Experience with GIS, mapping, spatial data, satellite or aerial imagery, remote sensing, computer vision, or earth-observation data is a plus.
- Experience with AI/ML platform operations, model-serving infrastructure, evaluation pipelines, PostgreSQL, production database optimization, infrastructure-as-code, GitOps, policy-as-code, or supply-chain security is a plus.
- Prior military, intelligence, defense, national security, or mission-operations experience is a plus.
- Experience operating software in disconnected, air-gapped, classified, or highly controlled environments is a plus.
- Must be a U.S. Person as defined by the posting, including a U.S. citizen, permanent resident, Asylee, or Refugee.
Benefits
- Competitive total rewards package including a 401(k) with company match, mental health resources, student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement, and pet insurance.
- The position is incentive eligible, with the target determined by role scope, company performance, and individual results.
- The role supports cloud, on-premises, customer-site, and edge environments; the posting does not specify a standard remote or office arrangement.
- The application window is three days from posting and remains open until a qualified candidate is identified.
Tech Stack
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
About Maxar Technologies
Maxar Technologies builds and operates commercial Earth‑observation satellites and sells high‑resolution imagery, 3D products, and geospatial analytics to government, defense, and enterprise customers. Headquartered in Westminster, Colorado, the company was formed in 2017 from the merger of DigitalGlobe and MDA and was acquired by Advent International in 2023; it supplies data for national security, mapping, and disaster response, and licenses imagery through subscription and platform APIs.