Satellite Ground Systems Operations Engineer

3 weeks ago

Westminster CO, United States Maxar Technologies Full time

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. 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.

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. 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. 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
• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision at affordable monthly rates

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. 

Government Secret security clearance
Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field. 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 
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 
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 a candidates unique set of knowledge, skills, and geographic diversity, with earnings potential commensurate with experience. 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.

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