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Maxar is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (RSE) our OpenShift PaaS organization, you will be responsible for ensuring the availability, performance, and scalability of our OpenShift environments. You will collaborate with development, operations, and product teams to automate processes, build robust monitoring systems, and enhance the overall reliability of our platforms.
About Us:
We are a cutting-edge technology organization specializing in providing OpenShift-based PaaS solutions to enterprises worldwide. Our mission is to empower businesses with scalable, secure, and highly available platforms to support their cloud-native applications. Join our innovative team and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of cloud computing.
Key Responsibilities:
System Reliability & Scalability:
- Design, implement, and maintain highly available OpenShift clusters to support mission-critical applications.
Automation & Infrastructure as Code (IaC):
- Develop and maintain automation scripts and tools to streamline deployment, scaling, and recovery processes using tools like Ansible, Terraform, and Helm.
Monitoring & Incident Management:
- Build and enhance monitoring and alerting systems (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
- Respond to and resolve incidents, conducting post-mortem analyses to identify root causes.
Performance Optimization:
- Analyze and optimize system performance, ensuring minimal latency and maximum throughput.
Collaboration:
- Work closely with development teams to implement DevOps best practices, CI/CD pipelines, and platform enhancements.
Security & Compliance:
- Ensure platforms meet security and compliance requirements by integrating tools for vulnerability scanning, policy enforcement, and logging.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Minimum 5+ years of experience as an SRE, DevOps Engineer, or related role.
- Expertise in OpenShift or Kubernetes platform administration.
- Strong knowledge of Linux systems, networking, and containerization technologies (Docker).
- Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or Go.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD).
- Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Splunk.
Additional Preferred Qualifications:
- OpenShift certification (e.g., Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration).
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Knowledge of service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd).
- Strong understanding of microservices and distributed systems architecture.
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In support of pay transparency at Maxar, we disclose salary ranges on all U.S. job postings. The successful candidate’s starting pay will fall within the salary range provided below and is determined based on job-related factors, including, but not limited to, the experience, qualifications, knowledge, skills, geographic work location, and market conditions. Candidates with the minimum necessary experience, qualifications, knowledge, and skillsets for the position should not expect to receive the upper end of the pay range.
The base pay for this position within the Washington, DC metropolitan area is: $131,000.00 - $219,000.00 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.
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
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.
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