IT Lead Engnr

Description & Requirements

The Sr. Cloud Engineer is a hands-on position that requires the ability to plan, design, and implement technical cloud solutions. You will help combine software and systems to develop creative engineering solutions for streamlined operations. Much of our support focuses on optimizing legacy systems, deploying new infrastructure and cloud services, and reducing work through automation of legacy processes. You will join a dedicated team of professionals with a diverse set of experience and skills. In this environment, you will take a hands-on lead for the dedicated support team, supported by a larger matrixed IT organization.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Work with development teams throughout the software life cycle ensuring sustainable software releases.

- Provide mentoring and guidance to drive adoption for greater reliability, resiliency, and scalability of our production applications, while maintaining a cost conscience approach.

- Perform hands on management of cloud infrastructure and automation tools.

- Document cloud architecture, security measures, and participate in client audits.

- Mentor and train other members of the dedicated DevOps team on AWS and automation technologies, and collaborate with other cloud support teams that support the overall organization.

- Serve as the primary technical point of contact for all cloud services consumed by the business.

- Serve as the technical lead among the engineers that support the environment and communicate any new enterprise standards or best practices to be adopted by the DevOps teams.

- Lead performance testing, chaos engineering and remediation efforts for continual improvement.

- Lead disaster recovery testing exercises for the applicable environments supported.

Embrace and advocate a DevOps mindset

• Troubleshoot major incidents, facilitate blameless post-mortem RCA documentation

• Work with development teams throughout the software life cycle ensuring sustainable software releases

• Perform analytics on previous incidents and usage patterns to better predict issues and take proactive corrective action

• Build and drive adoption for greater reliability, resiliency, and scalability of our production applications, while maintaining a cost conscience approach

• Lead and participate in performance tests; identify bottlenecks, opportunities for optimization, and capacity demands

• Lead and participate in disaster recovery tests for the environments you manage

• Perform hands on management of cloud infrastructure and automation tools

• Document cloud architecture, security measures, and participate in client audit

• Mentor and train other members of the dedicated DevOps team and collaborate with other cloud support teams that support the overall organization

• Understanding cloud security best practices and work with security teams to design

and implement a security plan

• Serve as a technical point of contact for all cloud services consumed by the team, and communicate any new enterprise standards or best practices to be adopted by the DevOps teams

Minimum Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in related field.

- 7-10 years of relevant professional experience required.

Bachelor or master's degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. Equivalent experience considered in lieu of degree

• 5+ years of overall IT experience

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in a major cloud provider (Azure, AWS, Google, Oracle)

• 2+ years of hands-on AWS experience

• 3+ years of scripting/automation experience

• Working knowledge in scripting languages and automation tools (JSON, Python, Ansible, GitHub, CodeShuttle) with respect to managing deployment automation

• Advanced knowledge of infrastructure components (networking, load balancing, cloud services, orchestration tools, containerization, compute, and storage systems)

• Working knowledge of Windows and Unix based operating systems

• Familiarity with Solarwinds, Splunk, AppDynamics or other monitoring tools

• Experience in a client facing production support environment

EEO Statement

Active military service members, their spouses, and veteran candidates often embody the core competencies Maximus deems essential, and bring a resiliency and dependability that greatly enhances our workforce. We recognize your unique skills and experiences, and want to provide you with a career path that allows you to continue making a difference for our country. We're proud of our connections to organizations dedicated to serving veterans and their families. If you are transitioning from military to civilian life, have prior service, are a retired veteran or a member of the National Guard or Reserves, or a spouse of an active military service member, we have challenging and rewarding career opportunities available for you. A committed and diverse workforce is our most important resource. Maximus is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Maximus provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status or disabled status.

Pay Transparency

Maximus compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to job location, a candidate's education, training, experience, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value analysis including seniority and merit systems, as well as internal pay alignment. Annual salary is just one component of Maximus's total compensation package. Other rewards may include short- and long-term incentives as well as program-specific awards. Additionally, Maximus provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off. Compensation ranges may differ based on contract value but will be commensurate with job duties and relevant work experience. An applicant's salary history will not be used in determining compensation. Maximus will comply with regulatory minimum wage rates and exempt salary thresholds in all instances.

Annual Base Pay Minimum for this Position

$

116,700.00

Annual Base Pay Maximum for this Position

$

220,560.00

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