Sr. Staff DevOps Engineer
Maxar Technologies
- Westminster, CO
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Support the deployment and management of solutions in AWS.
- Work and communicate with Maxar employees as well as external consultants.
- Follow and establish best practices for coding standards and software architecture.
- Responsible for the 'ilities': availability, scalability, maintainability, reliability, and securability of our tools and environments. We embrace SRE principles.
- Actively identify opportunities for improvement in our infrastructure and propose solutions to realize them.
- Collaborate with a team of skilled DevOps Engineers, Data Engineers, and Business Intelligence Developers.
- Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related engineering field. 4 additional years of experience may be substituted for a degree.
- Minimum of 5 years related work experience for a Senior Software Engineer
- Minimum of 8 years related work experience for a Senior Staff Software Engineer
- Proficiency with Python, Java, Bash
- General understanding of key AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, EKS, IAM, lambda)
- Prior experience with infrastructure-as-code, especially Terraform
- Prior experience with Kubernetes
- Prior experience with Helm
- Prior experience with Git
- Active U.S. Government security clearance
- Must be a U.S. citizen and be willing and able to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance.
- Prior experience with CI/CD technologies such as Jenkins
- Prior experience with any of the following: Trino/Starburst, dbt (core or cloud), Apache Superset, OpenMetadata, Apache Airflow, Tableau.
- Prior experience with RDS databases, or Postgres.
- Agile software development lifecycle experience
- Holds any AWS certification, or other cloud provider’s certifications.
- Success delivering and maintaining complex software systems in production environments.
- Experience automating infrastructure with zero downtime deployments.
- Intellectually curious, problem solver, never stops learning.
- Strong verbal, written, and organizational skills. Experience working directly with stakeholders.
- Self-starter with the ability to stay organized while balancing multiple priorities.
- Ability to apply critical thought to problems and come up with solutions that meet Maxar requirements.