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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, C

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 Requirements: Must be a U.S. Citizen Must be able and willing to obtain a 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 admin experience Experience using and/or administrating a variety of open-source technologies Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation) Familiarity with one of all of the following Bash/Python/Perl/Ruby Ansible Tower or AWX writing Ansible playbooks and roles Satellite and Puppet Windows system admin experience

Preferred Qualifications: Active U.S. security clearance PowerShell training SCCM Group policy Imaging baselines OS Repositories Experience implementing compliance standards (eg 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 would be preferable. Git experience 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 that you would expect from a leading employer such as: 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

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In support of pay transparency at Maxar, we disclose salary ranges on all of our U.S. job postings. 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. To accommodate all locations, we have listed the bottom to the top of the possible range, and will share the target range for a specific location during the recruiting discussion. Individual pay will be competitive based on candidates unique set of knowledge, skills, and geographic diversity, with earnings potential commensurate with experience. The range for this position is:$94,000.00 - $200,000.00 annually.

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/benefitsAdditionally, 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 cont

This position will be posted for a minimum of three business days, and will be posted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire.

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