Sr. Staff DevOps Engineer with Clearance

Vantor (Maxar Intelligence); Westminster (CO); Hybride; USD 128 000 - 187 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

401(k) with company match

Mental health resources

Student loan repayment assistance

Adoption reimbursement

Pet insurance

Résumé du poste

Vantor seeks a SeniorStaff DevOps Engineer with Site Reliability expertise to support the Vantor Hub across AWS environments. This hybrid role requires hands-on AWS, Kubernetes, IaC, and CI/CD work, while guiding reliability best practices across teams.

The ideal candidate will own production systems, mentor colleagues, and advance deployment safety, observability, and incident response as part of a Platform Infrastructure team in Westminster, CO.

Qualifications

• Eight+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or cloud operations.
• Ownership of production systems in cloud-based environments.
• Strong SRE practices: SLIs/SLAs, error budgets, incident response, post-incident reviews, reliability metrics, and automation.
• Proficiency with AWS, multi-account environments; containerization with Docker/Kubernetes; IaC with Terraform or CloudFormation; scripting in Python/Bash/PowerShell.

Responsabilités

• Lead reliability engineering efforts for the Vantor Hub platform and related infrastructure services.
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines for software and infrastructure delivery.
• Build, operate, and improve cloud infrastructure automation using Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS-native services.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, deployment, networking, performance, reliability, and production issues.
• Improve service availability, scalability, maintainability, reliability, security, and overall operational readiness.
• Design and operate highly available, resilient, observable infrastructure across commercial and government AWS environments.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve deployment safety, rollback capabilities, observability, production readiness, and operational support.
• Participate in a team on-call rotation roughly every twelve weeks for production reliability and incident response.
• Utilize AI development tools as force multipliers for software design, testing, and documentation while maintaining reliability and security.

Connaissances

DevOps

Platform Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering

Cloud operations

Formation

Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Outils

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CloudFormation

Description du poste

Vantor is forging the new frontier of spatial intelligence, helping decision makers and operators navigate what's happening now and shape what's coming next. Vantor is a place for problem solvers, changemakers, and go-getters- where people are working together to help our customers see the world differently, and in doing so, be seen differently. Come be part of a mission, not just a job, where you can: Shape your own future, build the next big thing, and change the world.

To be eligible for this position, you must be a U.S. Person, defined as a U.S. citizen, permanent resident, Asylee, or Refugee.Export Control/ITAR: Certain roles may be subject to U.S. export control laws, requiring U.S. person status as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3).

Please review the job details below.

Vantor is forging the new frontier of spatial intelligence, helping decision makers and operators navigate what's happening now and shape what's coming next. Vantor is a place for problem solvers, changemakers, and go-getters- where people are working together to help our customers see the world differently, and in doing so, be seen differently. Come be part of a mission, not just a job, where you can: Shape your own future, build the next big thing, and change the world.

Vantor's PlatformDevOpsteam is growing and we're looking for aSeniorStaff DevOps EngineerwithSiteReliabilityEngineering experienceto support the build, deployment,reliability,and operations of the Vantor Hub software suite.This teamis part ofVantor'sPlatform Infrastructureorganization, working on a unified platform powering applications used byVantor'scustomers. We're looking for a candidate that is inspired by working with a talented group of world-class engineers, scaling our development,deployment, and operationsefforts.

This position is hybrid with three days a week on-site with your colleagues in Westminster, CO.

The Platform DevOpsteam designs, develops,secures, and operatesa wide range of custom and third-party software solutions deployed in AWS.The teamoversees dozens of AWS accounts between commercial and government environments, and guides DevOps, cloud infrastructure,and reliability engineeringbest practices.Wecollaboratewith hundreds ofVantorengineers to quickly and securely build, test, and release software changes intomanycommercial and government AWS environments. This software and adjacent services are critical to the overall velocity of the organization and allows our teams to introduce business value rapidly without sacrificing quality or security.

As aSeniorStaff DevOps EngineerforSite Reliability, you will play a key role in improving the reliability, scalability, observability, and operational maturity of Vantor Hub and its supporting infrastructure. You will work hands-on with AWS, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD systems, monitoring platforms, and incident response processes while also influencing engineering standards and reliability practices across teams.

This role is intended for an experienced engineer who can operate independently, lead complex technical initiatives, mentor others, and help establish best practices for production readiness, service reliability, automation, and cloud operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead reliability engineering efforts for the Vantor Hub platform and related infrastructure services.
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines for software and infrastructure delivery.
• Build, operate, and improve cloud infrastructure automation using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS-native services.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, deployment, networking, performance, reliability, and production issues.
• Improve service availability, scalability, maintainability, reliability, security, and overall operational readiness.
• Design and operate highly available, resilient, observable, and secure infrastructure across commercial and government AWS environments.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve deployment safety, rollback capabilities, observability, production readiness, and operational support.
• Participate ina team on-call rotation, currently approximately one week every twelve weeks, supporting production reliability and incident response.
• Leverage AI developmenttoolsas forcemultipliers for software design, implementation, testing, and documentationwhile maintaining reliability, security, and engineering quality.
• Contribute to shared engineering standards for responsible AI-assisted development, including validation practices, documentation expectations, and review patterns.
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate infrastructure automation, documentation, runbook development, test scaffolding, incident analysis, and repeatable operational workflows; validate outputs through peer review, testing, and security practices.

Minimum requirements for this position

• Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science,arelated engineering field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience in DevOps,PlatformEngineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or cloud operations, with demonstrated ownership of production systems.
• Demonstrated experience owning, operating, and improving production systems in cloud-based environments.
• Strong experience with Site Reliability Engineering practices, including service-level indicators, service-level objectives, error budgets, incident response, post-incident reviews, reliability metrics,and reliability-focused automation.
• Strong proficiency with Amazon Web Services, including experience operating production workloads in multi-account AWS environments.
• Strong proficiencywith containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools like TerraformorCloudFormation.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Solid understanding of networking concepts and protocols.
• The ability to communicate and collaborate with team members and other colleagues.
• Active U.S. Government security clearance

Nice to Have

• Experience with high-availability systems, database replication, backup and restore, disaster recovery, and business-continuity planning.
• Experience with zero-downtime or low-downtime deployment strategies, including blue/green deployments, canary releases, rolling deployments, feature flags, and automated rollback.
• Experience with observability and incident management platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK, PagerDuty, or similar tools.
• Experience with secure cloud operations, least-privilege IAM, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, and audit-ready infrastructure.
• Experience supporting government, regulated, or compliance-driven environments.
• Practical experience using AI-assisted development or automation tools to improve engineering workflows, with a clear understanding of validation, review, privacy, and security considerations.

Pay Transparency

To support pay transparency, Vantor includes salary ranges in all U.S. job postings. Starting pay for this role will fall within the listed range and will be based on factors such as experience, qualifications, skills, location, and market conditions. Candidates who meet the minimum requirements for the role should not expect to receive compensation at the top of the range. The listed range reflects the expected pay for this position, and final offers will be determined based on each candidate’s experience, expertise, and alignment with the role.

The base pay for this position within Colorado is: $128,000.00 - $170,000.00 - $187,000.00 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.

Benefits: Vantor offers a competitive total rewards package that goes beyond the standard, including a robust 401(k) with company match, mental health resources, and unique perks like student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement and pet insurance to support all aspects of your life. You can find more information on our benefits at: https://www.Vantor.com/careers

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 Vantor's Career page at the top of each job posting.

EEO Policy

Vantor is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace. We believe in fostering an environment where all team members feel respected, valued, and encouraged to share their ideas. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.