Sr. DevOps Engineer
Maxar Technologies - Westminster, CO
posted 6 months ago
About the position
Maxar is seeking an enthusiastic Staff DevOps Engineer or Senior Staff DevOps Engineer to join our Data Intelligence team. This role is pivotal in delivering a high-quality analytics environment and platform that enables successful data intelligence at Maxar. The position is hybrid, requiring several days a week on-site in Westminster, CO, allowing for collaboration with colleagues while also providing flexibility. The Data Intelligence team is responsible for maintaining a variety of infrastructure and services in AWS, including new full-stack data lake houses designed for both commercial and government use. The primary focus of this role will be to maintain and enhance these data lake houses, while also overseeing the existing AWS infrastructure. Daily responsibilities will include supporting the deployment and management of solutions in AWS, collaborating with both Maxar employees and external consultants, and establishing best practices for coding standards and software architecture. In this role, you will be accountable for the 'ilities' of our tools and environments, which include availability, scalability, maintainability, reliability, and securability. We embrace Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and actively seek opportunities for improvement in our infrastructure, proposing solutions to enhance our systems. You will work closely with a team of skilled DevOps Engineers, Data Engineers, and Business Intelligence Developers to achieve these goals.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Ensure the availability, scalability, maintainability, reliability, and securability of tools and environments.
- Identify opportunities for improvement in infrastructure and propose solutions.
- Collaborate with a team of skilled DevOps Engineers, Data Engineers, and Business Intelligence Developers.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related engineering field (4 additional years of experience may substitute 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.
Nice-to-haves
- Active U.S. Government security clearance.
- Prior experience with CI/CD technologies such as Jenkins.
- Prior experience with Trino/Starburst, dbt (core or cloud), Apache Superset, OpenMetadata, Apache Airflow, Tableau.
- Prior experience with RDS databases, or Postgres.
- Agile software development lifecycle experience.
Benefits
- Competitive salary range of $98,000.00 - $164,000.00 annually.
- Incentive eligibility based on contribution, company performance, and/or individual results achieved.
