Cloud Operations Engineer

$98,000 - $164,000/Yr

Maxar Intelligence - Westminster, CO

Full-time

Westminster, CO

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Maxar is currently seeking a Cloud Ops Engineer (DevOps) to join our team in Westminster, CO. In this role, you will have ownership responsibility for the operation of several security applications and services, integrating security requirements into the common infrastructure design, and supporting common infrastructure service solutions for the enterprise. As a key member of our Development Team, you will work closely with Information Assurance and other DevOps engineers to ensure that security is an upfront consideration during design and is operationally practiced throughout the system lifecycle. The collaborative nature of this role will present growth opportunities in both DevOps and Information Security skillsets. Your primary responsibilities will include designing, implementing, and maintaining multiple security applications and services in a cloud-based environment that operates using continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices. You will troubleshoot and resolve network, automated pipeline, and infrastructure issues related to security services. Additionally, you will build, maintain, and monitor the configuration of security tools, and create effective security monitoring, alerting, and metrics from log aggregators and data collectors. This position also requires you to provide a collaborative conduit between security-focused and development-focused teams, as well as configuration and vulnerability management support for production applications and custom code.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain multiple security applications/services in a cloud-based environment using CI/CD practices.
• Troubleshoot and resolve network, automated pipeline, and infrastructure issues related to security services.
• Build, maintain, and monitor configuration of security tools.
• Create effective security monitoring, alerting, and metrics from log aggregators and data collectors.
• Provide a collaborative conduit between security-focused and development-focused teams.
• Provide configuration and vulnerability management support for production applications and custom code.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. citizen and be willing and able to obtain a Secret security clearance and undergo a CI Polygraph.
• Willingness to work 90% or as needed in a secure environment with some on-call or after-hours onsite support for customer's mission.
• 3 years of DevOps, software or infrastructure engineering experience.
• Ability to quickly learn and use a wide variety of open source technologies.
• Cloud service experience.
• Experience with Terraform and K8S or equivalent technologies.

Nice-to-haves

• Strongly prefer active Secret security clearance.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field (4 additional years of experience may be substituted for a degree).
• Experience automating, running and maintaining a variety of security tool types (monitoring, compliance, vulnerability detection, intrusion detection and prevention, change management and detection, code analysis, etc.).
• CompTIA Security+ or other DoDD 8140 certification.
• Experience with custom source application development and maintenance.

Benefits

• Competitive salary based on experience and skills.
• Market-driven salary ranges with flexibility.
• Individual pay competitive based on unique knowledge, skills, and geographic diversity.