Senior Automation Engineer

Maxar Technologies Holdings • Westminster, CO

175d • $104,000 - $174,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

At Maxar Intelligence, we unlock the promise of space intelligence to help governments and businesses solve problems on earth and beyond. Since humans first explored our solar system, we have been supporting space missions with our tools. Maxar partners with innovative businesses and more than 50 governments to monitor global change, deliver broadband communications and advance space operations with capabilities in Space Infrastructure and Earth Intelligence. Now is your chance to amplify your impact, working to solve the world's most pressing challenges. We are hiring immediately for a Senior Automation Engineer to join our team in Westminster, CO.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen and hold an active U.S. 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.
• Previously demonstrated experience in Linux system administration.
• Experience using and/or administrating a variety of open-source technologies.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation).
• Familiarity with one or all of the following: Bash/Python/Perl/Ruby.
• Experience with Ansible Tower or AWX writing Ansible playbooks and roles.
• Experience with Satellite and Puppet.
• Windows system administration experience.

Nice To Haves

• Active TS/SCI U.S. security clearance.
• PowerShell training.
• Experience with SCCM and Group policy.
• Experience with imaging baselines and 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.

Responsibilities

• Enable Maxar infrastructure teams to deploy and maintain compliant systems using standards and configuration state management tools.
• Continuously monitor operational system performance and usage, refining tools to reduce complexity and increase reliability.
• Write playbooks and modules to implement hardening controls and manage configuration tools in various environments.
• 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 implementation, recommending and implementing changes.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Management of Companies and Enterprises
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree