Geospatial Systems Administrator full_time

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Are you a System Administrator that likes working on important and high visibility projects? Then we need your help! 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: We at Maxar are very serious about professional development and continuing education.  We offer everyone the opportunity to define their own career trajectory.  Our group has some amazing resources at our disposal specifically 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 with your Colleagues:

• Work with team members to deploy, optimize and maintain enterprise geospatial systems including databases, tools and applications
• Support maintenance of user accounts and access across the enterprise
• Maintain and optimize cloud architecture
• Assist in security accreditation process

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, etc.  4 years of relevant experience may be substituted for a degree.

• Experience as a Systems Administrator to include account creation and monitoring and system architecture backup and recover plans

Desired Skills:

• Familiarity with geospatial tools and applications including Google Earth and the ESRI stack
• Familiarity with Geospatial Databases
• Experience with the Sponsor’s Security Accreditation Process
• Knowledge of cloud migration approaches and patterns
• Experience with AWS cloud services or cloud native application development processes
• Experience deploying and maintaining services in the cloud
• Familiarity with geospatial tools and applications
• Shell scripting

Our salary ranges are market-driven and set to allow for flexibility. Individual pay will be competitive based on a candidate’s unique set of knowledge, skills, and geographic diversity, with earnings potential commensurate with experience. The range for this position is:

$114,000.00 – $191,000.00 annually.

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.