Sr Staff DevOps Engineer
Maxar Technologies3 months 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 CI/CD pipelines for software and infrastructure delivery.
- Build, operate, and improve cloud infrastructure automation using Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS-native services.
- Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, deployment, networking, performance, reliability, and production issues.
- Improve service availability, scalability, maintainability, reliability, security, and operational readiness.
- Design and operate highly available, resilient, observable, and secure 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 currently approximately one week every twelve weeks for production reliability and incident response.
- Use and help establish responsible practices for AI-assisted infrastructure automation, documentation, testing, incident analysis, and operational workflows.
- Mentor engineers, lead complex technical initiatives, and influence shared engineering and reliability standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related engineering field, or equivalent experience.
- At least 8 years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, site reliability engineering, or cloud operations with demonstrated ownership of production systems.
- Demonstrated experience operating and improving production systems in cloud-based environments.
- Strong experience with site reliability practices including service-level indicators, service-level objectives, error budgets, incident response, post-incident reviews, reliability metrics, and reliability automation.
- Strong proficiency with AWS 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, along with the ability to communicate and collaborate effectively.
- U.S. citizenship and willingness and ability to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance; an active clearance is listed as preferred.
- Preferred experience includes high-availability systems, database replication, backup and restore, disaster recovery, business continuity, deployment strategies, observability and incident management platforms, secure cloud operations, regulated environments, and AI-assisted development or automation.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with three days per week onsite in Westminster, Colorado.
- Competitive total rewards package including a 401(k) with company match, mental health resources, student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement, and pet insurance.
- Incentive eligibility based on contribution, company performance, and/or individual results.
- Participation in an approximately one-week-every-twelve-weeks on-call rotation.
- The application window is three days from posting or reposting 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.