Satellite Ground Systems Operations Engineer

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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. 

Maxar Intelligence is currently seeking a Satellite Ground Systems Operations Engineer to join our Missions Control System (MCS) team. Though the team is located in Westminster CO, and also works out of Longmont, CO. The MCS Ops Engineers are responsible for support of the Ground System that operates the Maxar’s Earth Intelligence spacecraft constellation. This role also supports design, development, integration, and testing of Maxar’s next generation spacecraft. In this role, you will work as part of multi-disciplinary teams that include system engineers, software developers, spacecraft system engineers and the spacecraft operations teams.

Life with Us:

Your Project: In this role, you will support real-time spacecraft/satellite operations to align with Maxar’s mission, from design to implementation and into operations. You will provide technical expertise in matters pertaining to the satellite ground system including ground equipment, satellite command and control, satellite telemetry, and payload backhaul and processing. You will have a high degree of autonomy in your daily work. 

Your Career: We are a company leveraging the latest proven technologies where you will keep up or stay ahead of the demand for the hottest skills. We are very serious about professional development and continuing education at Maxar. We offer our team members with the opportunity to define their own career trajectory. Our group has amazing resources to support learning and development. You will work with your manager, or a mentor, to set goals and design a development plan to advance your career. 

What we offer:

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 like:

• 401K matching and immediate vesting schedule

• Career growth opportunities

• Family friendly benefits like maternity and paternity leave, adoption reimbursement, flexible hours, hybrid work options

• Programs to help you grow like tuition reimbursement, hackathons, and career development

• Student loan repayment

• Generous time off

• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision at affordable monthly rates

What you'll do day-to-day (with your colleagues): 

Support Worldview Legion, Worldview 1-3, and GeoEye-1 operations by monitoring and troubleshooting the Ground System

• Perform necessary troubleshooting at the application code and cloud infrastructure levels. 
• Work in a broad technical scope, primarily with software, using analysis of data and logs. 
• Utilize monitoring and alarming to ensure system are operating nominally or teams respond quickly to anomalies.
• For the best design and implementation of the satellite ground system, collaborate with product owners, system engineers, software engineers, spacecraft operators, aerospace engineers, remote ground station engineers and IT engineers.  
• You will share on-call, Tier 3 operations support with the backup of the software developers. 

Minimum requirements for this position: 

• Must be a U.S. citizen and be willing and able to obtain U.S. Government Secret security clearance
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field. Four years of additional experience may be substituted for a degree 
• Minimum of 2 years of troubleshooting software 
• Expertise in Unix and scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) 
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot software systems 
• Demonstrated ability to document technical information 
• Demonstrated ability to switch between several technical tasks and keep track of open issues 

These skills would be amazing: 

• Troubleshooting experience for AWS-based systems 
• Expertise with the following technologies: REST application interfaces, PaaS, Elk/Kibana, Jenkins, Ansible, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Git, PostgreSQL/Aurora, Python, Ruby, C++, RabbitMQ, Redis 
• Experience being embedded with a software dev/test scrum team with a product owner 
• Curious and self-motivated to learn new technologies 

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$78,000.00 - $166,000.00 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/benefits

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. 

Maxar employees must follow all applicable Maxar policies and COVID-19 requirements as well as those of Maxar customers and third parties. Individual job requirements may vary, and Maxar reserves the right to modify its policies and requirements as it deems appropriate in accordance with applicable law.

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.