
Sr Staff DevOps Engineer
Maxar Technologies1 hour 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