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Westminster, Colorado, United States
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Vantor is forging the new frontier of spatial intelligence, helping decision makers and operators navigate what’s happening now and shape what’s coming next. Vantor is a place for problem solvers, changemakers, and go-getters—where people are working together to help our customers see the world differently, and in doing so, be seen differently. Come be part of a mission, not just a job, where you can: Shape your own future, build the next big thing, and change the world.
To be eligible for this position, you must be a U.S. Citizen. This position requires an active U.S. Government security clearance, applicants who do not currently hold the required clearance will not be eligible for consideration. Employment for cleared roles is contingent upon verification of clearance status.

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Vantor is seeking a Sr. Staff Software Systems Engineer to help own, evolve, and operationalize enterprise observability, monitoring, alerting, and audit-readiness capabilities across critical business and mission systems.
This role sits at the intersection of software engineering, systems engineering, infrastructure operations, monitoring, audit support, and technical leadership. The ideal candidate has deep experience working across engineering, infrastructure, security, information assurance, operations, and product teams to improve reliability, visibility, and operational confidence across complex enterprise environments.
This is not a ticket-driven support role. This is a senior technical leadership role responsible for driving platform standards, improving monitoring and alerting coverage, supporting operational readiness, coordinating cross-team technical execution, and ensuring critical systems are observable, supportable, and audit-ready.
What You'll Do
Observability, Monitoring & Alerting Leadership
Own and improve monitoring, alerting, and operational visibility patterns across critical enterprise systems.
Partner with MOE, TSOC, Infrastructure, Information Assurance, Security, and application teams to ensure systems are properly monitored, report meaningful status, and support operational response needs.
Help define standards for logging, alerting, dashboarding, system health reporting, and audit evidence collection.
Improve the quality, consistency, and usefulness of observability data across distributed environments.
Support monitoring and alerting implementations using tools such as ELK stack, Grafana, Zabbix and related technologies.
Platform Reliability & Operational Readiness
Drive improvements that increase platform reliability, resilience, supportability, and operational confidence.
Identify gaps in monitoring coverage, system ownership, alert quality, data visibility, documentation, and operational handoff.
Lead technical efforts to prepare infrastructure and applications for audits, operational transitions, and production readiness reviews.
Coordinate root cause analysis, remediation planning, and follow-through for complex reliability or monitoring issues.
Ensure critical services have clear ownership, useful alerts, supportable runbooks, and accurate operational status.
Systems Engineering & Automation
Use software engineering and scripting experience to automate repeatable operational tasks, improve system visibility, and reduce manual effort.
Support integrations between monitoring systems, ticketing systems, CMDBs, change management workflows, identity platforms, and operational reporting tools.
Help design repeatable onboarding patterns for teams, applications, infrastructure, and data sources entering shared monitoring or observability platforms.
Partner with infrastructure and DevOps teams on deployment, migration, decommissioning, and modernization efforts.
Contribute to technical design discussions involving secure infrastructure, enterprise services, data flows, monitoring agents, alert routing, and operational reporting.
Audit, Compliance & Secure Operations
Support audit readiness, ATO-related technical execution, system inventory validation, monitoring coverage, vulnerability remediation coordination, and evidence collection.
Work closely with Information Assurance, Cyber Security, Infrastructure, and operations teams to ensure critical systems meet monitoring, reporting, and operational control expectations.
Help translate audit, compliance, and security requirements into actionable engineering work.
Drive cross-team execution for complex remediation or readiness initiatives involving multiple systems, teams, and stakeholders.
Technical Leadership & Cross-Team Execution
Serve as a senior technical partner to engineering, infrastructure, security, operations, and product teams.
Lead complex, multi-team technical initiatives from discovery through delivery.
Provide guidance to engineers and technical teams on monitoring, alerting, operational readiness, change coordination, and supportability.
Build trusted relationships across the organization and quickly bring the right people together to solve urgent or ambiguous problems.
Influence long-term strategy for observability, operational excellence, secure systems engineering, and platform support models.
Required Qualifications
7+ years of experience in software engineering, systems engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure operations, DevOps, SRE, technical program delivery, or a related technical role.
Experience supporting enterprise-scale production systems, infrastructure platforms, or mission-critical operational environments.
Hands-on experience with monitoring, alerting, observability, or operational intelligence platforms such as ELK Stack, Splunk, Datadog, Grafana, or similar tools.
Experience working with infrastructure, operations, cybersecurity, information assurance, or audit teams to improve system visibility, readiness, reliability, or compliance posture.
Strong background leading cross-functional technical initiatives involving multiple engineering, infrastructure, security, and operations stakeholders.
Scripting experience using Python, Bash, or similar
Strong troubleshooting, coordination, communication, and incident response skills.
Ability to translate ambiguous operational, audit, monitoring, or reliability needs into clear technical plans and executable work.
Experience working in secure, regulated, or compliance-sensitive environments.
Ability to mentor engineers, influence technical direction, and operate effectively at a senior staff level.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience supporting Elastic Stack components, including Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, Logstash, Elastic Agent, or related tooling.
Experience improving monitoring coverage, alert quality, dashboarding, operational reporting, or audit evidence workflows.
Experience with ITSM, ticketing, CMDB, change management, or operational workflow systems.
Experience supporting ATO, audit, vulnerability remediation, secure infrastructure readiness, or government compliance efforts.
Familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Kafka, OpenTelemetry, or modern cloud-native observability patterns.
Active Secret clearance or ability to support cleared programs, where required.
Experience operating in environments with Low Side, High Side, or segmented secure infrastructure.
What Success Looks Like
Pay Transparency: To support pay transparency, Vantor includes salary ranges in all U.S. job postings. Starting pay for this role will fall within the listed range and will be based on factors such as experience, qualifications, skills, location, and market conditions. Candidates who meet the minimum requirements for the role should not expect to receive compensation at the top of the range. The listed range reflects the expected pay for this position, and final offers will be determined based on each candidate’s experience, expertise, and alignment with the role.
● The base pay for this position within Colorado is: $102,000.00 - $136,000.00 - $149,600.00 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.
Benefits: Vantor offers a competitive total rewards package that goes beyond the standard, including a robust 401(k) with company match, mental health resources, and unique perks like student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement and pet insurance to support all aspects of your life. You can find more information on our benefits at: https://www.Vantor.com/careers
Additionally, this position is incentive eligible with a target based on contribution, company performance, and/or individual results achieved; the specific incentive plan and target amount will be determined based on the role and breadth of contributions.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 Vantor's Career page at the top of each job posting.
To apply, submit your application via Vantor's Career page.
EEO Policy: Vantor is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace. We believe in fostering an environment where all team members feel respected, valued, and encouraged to share their ideas. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
