Staff Cloud Security Engineer
Maxar Technologies3 months ago
Longmont, CO, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$105k - $154k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain security applications and services in a cloud-based environment.
- Troubleshoot network, automated pipeline, and infrastructure issues related to security services.
- Build, maintain, and monitor security tool configurations.
- Develop security monitoring, alerting, and metrics using log aggregators and data collectors.
- Collaborate between security-focused and development-focused teams to integrate security throughout the system lifecycle.
- Provide configuration and vulnerability management support for production applications and custom code.
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship, an existing SECRET clearance, and the ability to obtain Top Secret/SCI access with a required Counterintelligence Polygraph after SCI access is awarded.
- CompTIA Security+ or another DoDD 8140 certification.
- Five years of DevOps, software, or infrastructure engineering experience and a bachelor’s degree, with four additional years of experience substituting for the degree.
- Cloud service experience and experience with Terraform and K8S or equivalent technologies.
- Ability to learn and use a wide variety of open-source technologies.
- Willingness to work 90% or as needed in a secure environment, including some on-call or after-hours onsite customer support.
- AWS or another cloud-provider certification is preferred.
- Experience with Jenkins or similar CI/CD technologies is preferred.
- Proficiency in Python or Java is preferred.
- Experience automating, operating, and maintaining security tools for monitoring, compliance, vulnerability detection, intrusion detection and prevention, change management, and code analysis is preferred.
- Experience with custom source application development and maintenance 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 and contribution.
- Work locations are Westminster or Longmont, Colorado, with approximately 90% or as-needed work in a secure environment and some onsite on-call or after-hours support.
- The role requires an active clearance and includes a three-day application window that remains open until a qualified candidate is hired.
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.