Sr. Platform Infrastructure Engineer
Maxar Technologies2 months ago
Westminster, CO, USASenior
Base Salary
$128k - $187k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain AWS-based production infrastructure.
- Deploy and support customer-owned on-premise environments.
- Build repeatable deployment automation for cloud and hardware-based installations.
- Develop infrastructure-as-code standards for AWS and customer environments.
- Collaborate with software engineering teams to improve deployment reliability.
- Support release engineering and production operations.
- Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, networking, and platform issues.
- Implement security best practices and support vulnerability remediation and compliance initiatives.
- Participate in architecture reviews and platform roadmap planning.
- Support customer-facing deployment and operational readiness activities.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of experience in DevOps, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering.
- Experience deploying and operating production workloads in AWS.
- Experience supporting Linux-based infrastructure.
- Experience with Kubernetes and containerized applications.
- Experience with infrastructure as code, with Terraform preferred.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience deploying and operating physical infrastructure, including servers, storage, networking, and virtualization platforms.
- Strong troubleshooting and operational support skills.
- U.S. citizenship is required.
- An active U.S. Government security clearance is required; applicants without the required clearance are not eligible for consideration.
- Preferred qualifications include defense, aerospace, intelligence, or mission-critical systems experience; sovereign cloud, disconnected operations, or customer-managed deployment experience; AI-assisted DevOps, AIOps, or autonomous operational tooling experience; and platform operating model experience.
- Familiarity with geospatial intelligence, satellite operations, mission planning, Zero Trust, and modern DevSecOps practices is preferred.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field 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.
- The position is incentive eligible, with the target determined by role scope, company performance, individual results, and breadth of contributions.
- Denver metro area location with in-office collaboration expected 3–5 days per week.
- Occasional travel of 10–25% may be required for customer deployments, installations, and operational readiness activities.
- The application window is three days from posting or reposting and remains open until a qualified candidate is identified.
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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.