Systems Administrator

Employment Type: Full-time

Position Overview

Are you a Systems Administrator who enjoys working on important and high-visibility projects? We have an urgent and immediate need for a Systems Administrator to join our team at a customer-site in Chantilly, VA.

Life with Us

Project: This customer office provides Geospatial Support across the Enterprise. You will have the opportunity to help support applications enabling critical missions. The job will allow you to be instrumental in developing new ideas and unique solutions to optimize large user bases for diverse applications as they grow to enterprise scale.

Your Career

At Maxar, we are very serious about professional development and continuing education. We offer everyone the opportunity to define their own career trajectory. Our group has amazing resources available for this purpose. You will work with your direct supervisor and/or a mentor to set appropriate goals and design a plan to help you make consistent progress.

We Offer:

• Dedicated professional development time
• Online learning platform access
• Conference attendance
• Corporate partner industry training
• Peer groups
• Paid certifications
• Education reimbursement
• Student loan forgiveness
• Hackathons!
• Flexible Time Off
• Tenure bonus based on using required clearance on-site

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Work with team members to deploy, optimize, and maintain enterprise geospatial systems including databases, tools, and applications, and provide user support.
• Maintain and optimize on-premise hardware and cloud-deployed systems.
• Assist in the security accreditation process, patching, and continuing maintenance, including security scans and creating and adhering to Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs).

Minimum Requirements

• US Citizen with active/current TS/SCI security clearance with required Polygraph.
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Geography, etc.
• 4 years of relevant experience may be substituted for a degree.
• Experience as a Systems Administrator to include physical and cloud-based systems, migration and recapitalization, monitoring, and backup and recovery.

Desired Skills

• Experience deploying, maintaining, and managing geospatial tools and applications including Google Earth Enterprise and the ESRI stack.
• Familiarity with Geospatial Database administration.
• Experience with the Sponsor’s Security Accreditation Process to include scanning, monitoring, and mitigation plans.
• Familiarity with DevOps concepts and operations.
• Experience with AWS cloud services, application development, and migration processes.
• Experience working with Information Systems Security Engineers (ISSEs).

Salary Information

Location Type: Not specified

Salary Range:

• California, Colorado, Hawaii, and Washington, DC metropolitan area: $155,000.00 - $185,000.00
• All other states: Ranges will vary based on geographic cost of labor.

Maxar offers a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health and welfare insurance, and 401(k) to eligible employees. More information can be found at: https://www.maxar.com/careers/benefits

Application Instructions

The application window is three days from the date the job is posted and will remain posted until a qualified candidate is selected.