Senior Systems Engineer
Company: Maxar Technologies
Location: Westminster
Posted on: July 8, 2025
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Job Description:
Please review the job details below. Maxar Intelligence is a
provider of secure, precise, geospatial intelligence. We deliver
disruptive value to government and commercial customers to help
them monitor, understand and navigate our changing planet. Our
unique approach combines decades of deep mission understanding and
a proven commercial and defense foundation to deploy solutions and
deliver insights with unrivaled speed, scale and cost
effectiveness. We are hiring immediately for a Senior Automation
Engineer to join our team in Westminster, CO. What you will do day
to day with your colleagues: We enable Maxar infrastructure teams
to deploy and maintain compliant systems using standards and
configuration state management tools specifically curated to suit
their compliance requirements. We continuously monitor operational
system performance and usage, and continuously refine our tools to
reduce complexity, increase reliability, and match timeliness with
efficient costs. In this role you will be responsible for writing
playbooks and modules to implement hardening controls and manage
configuration tools in a variety of environments at different
accreditation levels. You will also play a central role in
upgrading, supporting, and optimizing those tools to create a
highly available, resilient, and self-healing environment. You will
troubleshoot and resolve issues with the automation tools and their
implementation, recommending and implementing changes to enhance,
stabilize, and secure their ongoing operation. Minimum
Qualifications: - Must be a U.S. citizen be able to gain U.S.
Secret Clearance - Bachelor's degree in a related field or five
years of experience may be substituted for a degree - At least 8
plus years of software development and/or infrastructure
engineering experience. - Ability to be on call on a rotating basis
- Demonstrated experience administering Red Hat Linux and its
derivatives (CentOS, Rocky, etc.) - Demonstrated experience writing
Ansible playbooks and roles - Demonstrated experience in
Infrastructure as Code (ex. Terraform or CloudFormation) -
Demonstrated experience with one or all of the following:
Bash/Python/Perl/Ruby/PowerShell - Demonstrated experience
deploying and managing Red Hat Satellite infrastructures -
Demonstrated experience with LDAP/AD authentication mechanisms -
Demonstrated experience administering Ansible Tower/AWX/AAP -
Demonstrated experience deploying Cloud environments (AWS, Azure,
GCP or other) - Demonstrated experience using source code
repositories (Git) Preferred Qualifications: - Active TS/SCI
clearance - Experience administering Ubuntu and/or Amazon Linux -
Experience administering Windows (Server and/or Desktop) -
Experience administering Microsoft SCCM - Experience managing
Puppet infrastructures - Experience with AD Group policies -
Experience implementing compliance standards (eg STIG, CIS, NIST
800-171) - Experience working in a CI/CD environment - 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.
So, we recognize that with best-in-class benefits you would expect
from a leading employer such as: • robust medical, dental, vision
with affordable monthly premiums • Career growth opportunities •
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
• matching and immediately vest 401K plan LI-MG1 CJPost In support
of pay transparency at Maxar, we disclose salary ranges on all U.S.
job postings. The successful candidate’s starting pay will fall
within the salary range provided below and is determined based on
job-related factors, including, but not limited to, the experience,
qualifications, knowledge, skills, geographic work location, and
market conditions. Candidates with the minimum necessary
experience, qualifications, knowledge, and skillsets for the
position should not expect to receive the upper end of the pay
range. ? The base pay for this position within Colorado is:
$104,000.00 - $174,000.00 annually. For all other states, we use
geographic cost of labor as an input to develop market-driven
ranges for our roles, and as such, each location where we hire may
have a different range. We offer a comprehensive package of
benefits including paid time off, health and welfare insurance, and
401(k) to eligible employees. You can find more information on our
benefits at: https://www.maxar.com/careers/benefits Additionally,
this position is incentive eligible with a target based on
contribution, company performance, and/or individual results
achieved; the specific incentive plan and target amount will be
determined based on the role and breadth of contributions. 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 regardless of reason,
it will remain posted three days from the date the job is reposted
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
diversity in the workplace and is an equal opportunity/affirmative
action employer. All qualified applicants will receive
consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender
identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national
origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other
characteristic protected by law.
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