Sr. IT Engineer - Dev Ops

Company Overview: Maximus is a leading innovator in the government space, providing transformative solutions in the management and service delivery of government health and human services programs.  We pride ourselves in our commitment to excellence, innovation, and a customer-first approach, driven by our core values.  This has fostered our continual support of public programs and improving access to government services for citizens.

Maximus continues to grow its Digital Solutions organization to better serve the needs of our organization, our customers in the government, health, and human services space, while improving access to government services for citizens.  We use an approach grounded in design thinking, lean, and agile to help solve complicated problems and turn bold ideas into delightful solutions.

Job Description:  We are seeking a hands-on and strategic Lead DevOps Engineer to architect, implement, and lead the automation and CI/CD practices across our cloud infrastructure. This role demands deep expertise in cloud-native technologies and modern DevOps tooling with a strong emphasis on AWS, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, and Infrastructure Code.

The ideal candidate is also expected to be a motivated self-starter with a proactive approach to resolving problems and issues with minimal supervision

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and manage scalable infrastructure across AWS and Azure using Terraform (IaC)
• Define and maintain reusable Terraform modules to enforce infrastructure standards and best practices
• Implement secrets management, configuration management, and automated environment provisioning

• Architect and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and ArgoCD
• Implement GitOps workflows for continuous delivery and environment promotion
• Automate testing, security scanning, and deployment processes across multiple environments

• Design and manage containerized applications with Docker
• Deploy and manage scalable, secure workloads using Kubernetes (EKS/ECS/GKE/AKS/self-managed)
• Create and maintain Helm charts, Customize configs, or other manifest templating tools

• Manage Git repositories, branching strategies, and code review workflows
• Promote version control best practices including commit hygiene and semantic release tagging

• Set up and operate observability stacks: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Loki, Alertmanager any of those.
• Define SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs for critical services
• Lead incident response, perform root cause analysis, and publish post-mortems documentations

• Integrate security tools and checks directly into CI/CD workflows
• Manage access control, secrets, and ensure compliance with standards such as FedRamp

• Mentor and guide DevOps engineers to build a high-performing team
• Collaborate closely with software engineers, QA, product managers, and security teams

Promote a culture of automation, reliability, and continuous improvement

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Security, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 8+ years of experience in DevOps or a similar role, with a strong security focus.
• Preferred AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification or AWS Certified Devops Engineer – Professional or AWS Certified Solution Architect or similar.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS) (Azure – Good to have) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) with a key focus on AWS and EKS, ECS.
• Experience with infrastructure such as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform.
• Proficiency in CI/CD tools like AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins, Azure DevOps Server
• Familiarity with programming and scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash, Go, Bash).
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to convey complex security concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong understanding and working experience with enterprise applications and containerized application workloads.
• Knowledge of networking concepts
• Knowledge of network security principles and technologies (e.g., Firewalls, VPNs, IDS/IPS).