Geospatial Systems Administrator at Maxar Technologies

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

In support of pay transparency at Maxar, we disclose salary ranges on all of our U.S. job postings. 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. To accommodate all locations, we have listed the bottom to the top of the possible range, and will share the target range for a specific location during the recruiting discussion. Individual pay will be competitive based on a candidates unique set of knowledge, skills, and geographic diversity, with earnings potential commensurate with experience. The range for this position is:

$94,000.00 - $200,000.00 annually.

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: 

This position will be posted for a minimum of three business days, and will be posted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire. 

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.