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Senior Automation Engineer

Maxar Technologies
paid time off, tuition reimbursement, 401(k)
United States, Colorado, Westminster
1300 West 120th Avenue (Show on map)
Aug 26, 2025
Please review the job details below. At Maxar Intelligence, we unlock the promise of space intelligence to help governments and businesses solve problems on earth and beyond. Since humans first explored our solar system, we have been supporting space missions with our tools. Maxar partners with innovative businesses and more than 50 governments to monitor global change, deliver broadband communications and advance space operations with capabilities in Space Infrastructure and Earth Intelligence. Now is your chance to amplify your impact, working to solve the world's most pressing challenges. 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 Requirements: * Must be a U.S. Citizen and hold an active 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 TS/SCI 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 #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.