Security DevOps Engineer

Maxar is looking for a Security DevOps Engineer to join our team. We have amazing talent in other areas and need someone with experience to help with ensuring a strong security posture for a complex system.

Life with Us

Your Project: We are building a platform to detect, characterize, and alert on real-time events from multiple sources to augment decision makers with better situational awareness and understanding. We use many tools including Apache Flink, NiFi, and Kafka to power an analytic pipeline as well as Iceberg for historic analysis. The team already has skilled data scientists, but we need someone to help accelerate backend processing by designing new functionality and optimizing existing pipelines.

Your Career: We’re 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 supervisor, 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:

• Support and augment strategies for information security, risk management, and compliance
• Implement policies, standards, and guidelines for ongoing accreditation activities using configuration-as-code
• Automate deployment of security solutions to ensure integrity, confidentiality, and availability of accredited systems
• Manage and monitor security and identity related systems
• Assist in the review of proposed system changes for security impacts

Minimum requirements for this position

• Must be a U.S. citizen
• Requires at least 6 years of professional and/or educational security engineering experience
• Significant experience working with virtual container-based systems (Docker, Helm, Kubernetes)
• Significant experience managing and securing cloud infrastructure (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
• Experience with automation and configuration-as-code related tools (Jenkins, ArgoCD)
• Experience with security scanning and audit tools (Nessus, Qradar, Trivy, Sonarqube, Fortify)

These skills would be amazing

• Active TS SCI security clearance is preferred
• Familiarity with cyber security design and best practices
• Knowledge of Linux and Windows authentication, authorization, and administration
• Experience with security controls and system accreditation
• Experience with system orchestration tools (Ansible, Terraform)
• Experience managing an operational government information system

COVID-19 Update:

All Maxar U.S. employees and international employees who work in the U.S. and visit Maxar sites must be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 no later than January 18, 2022, except in cases where legally entitled to an exception.

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.

Job ID : R14956