Overview

At Maxar Intelligence, we unlock the promise of space intelligence to help governments and businesses solve problems on earth and beyond. We are hiring immediately for a Senior Automation Engineer to join our team in Westminster, CO.

Responsibilities

• Write playbooks and modules to implement hardening controls and manage configuration tools in a variety of environments at different accreditation levels.
• Upgrade, support, and optimize automation tools to create a highly available, resilient, and self-healing environment.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues with automation tools and their implementations, recommending and implementing changes to enhance, stabilize, and secure ongoing operation.
• Enable Maxar infrastructure teams to deploy and maintain compliant systems using standards and configuration state management tools tailored to compliance requirements.
• Continuously monitor operational system performance and usage, and refine tools to reduce complexity, increase reliability, and balance timeliness with cost efficiency.

Minimum Requirements

• Must be a U.S. citizen and willing to obtain Secret Security clearance
• At least two years of software development or infrastructure engineering experience
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or two additional years of experience may be substituted for a degree
• Ability to be on call on a rotating basis
• Linux system administration experience
• Experience using and/or administering a variety of open-source technologies
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation)
• Familiarity with Bash/Python/Perl/Ruby
• Ansible Tower or AWX writing Ansible playbooks and roles
• Satellite and Puppet
• Windows system administration experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Active Secret or TS/SCI U.S. security clearance
• PowerShell training
• SCCM
• Group policy
• Imaging baselines
• OS Repositories
• Experience implementing compliance standards (e.g., STIG, CIS, NIST 800-171)
• Cloud environment experience (AWS, Azure, GCP or other)
• Experience using Ansible, Satellite, Ubuntu Landscape or equivalent technologies
• CI/CD experience
• Git experience
• Agile development experience

Life with Us

There is a reason we boast awards like Best Employer, Best Place to work, Top employer, candidate experience winner. Our strength is in our people. Each team member makes a unique contribution to our collective mission. We recognize that with best-in-class benefits that you would expect from a leading employer such as:

• Robust medical, dental and vision coverage for affordable monthly premiums
• Family-friendly benefits like maternity and paternity leave, adoption reimbursement, flexible hours, hybrid work options
• Program to help you grow like tuition reimbursement, hackathons, and career development
• Student loan repayment
• Generous time off
• Career growth opportunities
• 401K plan - matching and immediate vest

The application window is three days from the date the job is posted and will remain posted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire. If the job is reposted, it will remain posted three days from the date of reposting and will remain reposted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire.

The date of posting can be found on Maxar’s Career page at the top of each job posting. To apply, submit your application via Maxar’s Career page.

Maxar Technologies values in the workplace and is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.