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ID #23793478
State Colorado
City Westminster
Job type Permanent
Salary USD TBD TBD
Source MAXAR Technologies
Showed 2021-12-03
Date 2021-12-02
Deadline 2022-01-31
Category Systems/networking
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Satellite Ground Systems Operations Engineer

Colorado, Westminster, 80030 Westminster USA

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Maxar 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, we are open to a fully remote team member. 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: Time for dedicated professional development, conference attendance, corporate partner and industry training, peer group collaboration, hackathons, as well as paid certifications, education reimbursement and student loan forgiveness.

What you'll do day-to-day (with your colleagues):
  • Support Worldview Legion launch and early operations (LEOP) and Worldview 1-3 and GeoEye-1 sustainment 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

The compensation range for this position is $79,500 to $132,500 annually, dependent on skills and experience.

COVID-19 Update:

As a federal contractor, Maxar is required to comply with the vaccination and other COVID-19 requirements in President Biden's September 9 Executive Order on Ensuring Adequate COVID Safety Protocols for Federal Contractors . Accordingly, all Maxar team members must be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 no later than January 4, 2022 , except in cases where a team member is legally entitled to an accommodation.

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.

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