Sr. Staff DevOps Engineer with Clearance
Maxar Technologies3 days ago
Westminster, CO, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$128k - $187k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead reliability engineering efforts for the Vantor Hub platform and related infrastructure services.
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable software and infrastructure delivery pipelines.
- Build, operate, and improve cloud infrastructure automation using Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS services.
- Troubleshoot infrastructure, deployment, networking, performance, reliability, and production issues.
- Improve service availability, scalability, maintainability, reliability, security, observability, and operational readiness.
- Operate resilient infrastructure across commercial and government AWS environments.
- Partner with engineering teams on deployment safety, rollback capabilities, observability, production readiness, and operational support.
- Participate in an on-call rotation of approximately one week every twelve weeks for production reliability and incident response.
- Use and help establish standards for responsible AI-assisted engineering, including validation, documentation, peer review, testing, and security practices.
- Mentor engineers, lead complex technical initiatives, and establish best practices for cloud operations and service reliability.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related engineering field, or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or cloud operations with ownership of production systems.
- Experience owning, operating, and improving production systems in cloud-based environments.
- Strong experience with SRE practices including service-level indicators, service-level objectives, error budgets, incident response, post-incident reviews, reliability metrics, and reliability automation.
- Strong proficiency with Amazon Web Services and production workloads in multi-account AWS environments.
- Strong proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Strong proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Proficiency in Python, Bash, or PowerShell scripting.
- Understanding of networking concepts and protocols.
- Active U.S. Government security clearance.
- Experience with high-availability systems, database replication, backup and restore, disaster recovery, and business-continuity planning is preferred.
- Experience with blue/green, canary, rolling, feature-flag, low-downtime, and automated-rollback deployment strategies is preferred.
- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK, PagerDuty, or similar observability and incident management tools is preferred.
- Experience with secure cloud operations, least-privilege IAM, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, and audit-ready infrastructure is preferred.
- Experience supporting government, regulated, or compliance-driven environments is preferred.
- Practical experience with AI-assisted development or automation tools and understanding of validation, review, privacy, and security considerations is preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive total rewards package including a 401(k) with company match, mental health resources, student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement, and pet insurance.
- Hybrid work arrangement with three days per week on-site in Westminster, Colorado.
- The role requires U.S. Person status and an active U.S. Government security clearance.
- The application window is three days from the posting date 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.