Multi-Cloud Solution Architect

The Maxar constellation of high-resolution satellites offers incredible accuracy, agility and collection capacity, imaging more of the world in the finest level of detail. This constellation is unprecedented in the industry, enabling customers around the globe to get the highest quality view of their world.  With an archive of over 180 petabytes and new collection of about 1 billion square kilometers—that’s approximately twice the land mass of earth—each year and revisits of up to 15 times per day at key locations globally, Maxar is equipped to assess activity and change globally.

To support our customers’ complex mission requirements, we’re constantly optimizing our architecture for speed of our earth observations, processing time and cost, storage cost, delivery tempo and resiliency for a complex set of mission requirements that range from nightly-news-worthy to background foundational mapping.  We are looking for additional expertise to help us with the optimizations to support our global customer base operating across multiple clouds and on-premises environments to ensure we get the right data to those customers on-time, while being cost effective.

If you have a deep understanding of multiple cloud platforms, the ability and demonstrated experience with managing workloads across different providers, proficiency in cost optimization strategies, a strong security awareness across various cloud environments and experience with multi-cloud management tools to support operations, consider joining Maxar and drive optimization of tens of millions we spend annually on cloud services.  Our ideal candidate is someone that is technically hands-on and either has run scaled cost-optimization efforts before or built tools for the market to optimize cloud performance.  In either case we want to follow the empirical data about our workloads and costs and drive efficiency into them.

Simply put, this is a wonderful opportunity to have a very broad reach across engineering teams with regular exposure to VPs and C-level executives while supporting a mission that you can be proud of.

Responsibilities:

• As Cloud Architect you will recommend and subsequently implement cloud optimization strategies to minimize cost while ensuring maximum mission value from Maxar’s products for customers.
• Engage with Maxar’s architects and engineers to understand existing implementations and the requirements driving them.
• Engage with the Engineering VPs to drive optimizations into the engineering baselines that underly Maxar products.
• Serve as a member of the Cloud Center of Excellence driving the evolution of our corporate cloud operations and governance approaches.  Through this you will be engaging with the COO and CTO to drive key optimizations as well as governance reforms while meeting corporate goals across mission performance, cost, compliance, and resiliency.

Requirements:

• Must have recent experience with multi-cloud platforms including AWS, Google Cloud, Azure and/or Oracle including their unique features and capabilities.  Applicant must have deep experience with AWS and at least one additional provider.
• Either (a) demonstrated experience with strategically placing workloads on the best cloud provider based on performance, cost and other requirements unique to each application or (b) designing and implementing products and tools that do so.
• Understanding of cloud pricing models and the skills required to optimize costs across multiple environments through resource allocation, usage monitoring and governance.
• Expertise in implementing robust security measures across diverse cloud environments, including data encryption, access controls and compliance regulations.
• Expertise in strategic selection of cloud services from different providers for both avoidance of vendor lock-in and/or increased resilience.
• Experience meeting the requirements of compliance frameworks.  Examples include ISO9001, ISO27001, NIST800-171 or NIST800-53
• Understanding of cybersecurity risks with global networks and operations and demonstrable risk management framework experience in applying mitigations for such risks.
• Proficiency in monitoring cloud performance, identifying issues, and troubleshooting across different cloud environments.
• Ability and willingness to obtain a Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) security clearance.
• B.S. in Computer Science or related technical degree.
• A minimum of ten years of experience deploying solutions to cloud environments and a minimum of 2 years of experience in each of two major cloud providers.
• A minimum of three years of experience in a senior computing, architecture or systems engineering capacity with demonstrated competency driving enterprise, mission- and/or revenue-critical architecture(s).

Recommended Qualifications:

• Existing Secret, Top Secret or Top Secret / SCI clearance.
• Understanding of and experience with the services available in government clouds (FedRAMP, the C2E contract from CIA, and those of the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability) at multiple security levels.
• Understanding of and experience with the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Program and the impact on managing Controlled Unclassified Information in and across cloud environments.
• Experience briefing and working with executive level leadership, including VPs and C-level executives.

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. 

The date of posting can be found on Maxar’s Career page at the top of each job posting.

To apply, submit your application via Maxar’s Career page.

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.