Senior Automation Engineer - DevOps

Description & Requirements

MAXIMUS IT is looking for technical candidates who are passionate about all things DevSecOps.

Individuals must be able to affect change, be proactive, and be passionate about making our development lifecycle as efficient as possible by implementing and evolving DevSecOps practices at Maximus.

This candidate will need to have a fervor for empowering support, development, and product teams to help set the company up for success!

Job Duties/Responsibilities:


* Develop solutions to allow developers to build, test, and deploy in Maximus AWS cloud environments while controlling corporate costs.


* Contribute to CI/CD shared libraries pipeline.


* Design and implement highly available and scalable architectures in dynamic, fast-growing environments.


* Ensure scalable, secure, redundant, distributed AWS cloud environment systems.


* Integrate and implement best practices and DevSecOps methodologies in every step of the engineering process.


* Assist teams in implementing test-driven development practices.


* Orchestrate frameworks for software deployments for prod and non-prod environments.


* Take ownership of automation improvements, problem resolution, and root cause analysis.


* Work with various team members to resolve outages or other issues.


* Enable systems with automated testing, monitoring, and alerting.


* Support and maintain compliance with security and privacy standards.


* Provide mentoring and guidance to other team members.


* Ability use remote collaboration software.

Teams, Zoom, Slack


* Develop and maintain documentation.


* Ability to communication to large technically diverse audiences.


* Provide mentoring and guidance to other team members.

Minimum Requirements

- Bachelor's degree and 5-7 years of relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and experience required.

Education/Requirements:


* Minimum of 6 years of related experience or 4 years with a Bachelor's degree; or 2 years with a Master's degree.


* DevOps experience coming from AWS/Azure Cloud/Windows/Linux infrastructure environment.


* Proven experience in developing CI/CD pipelines and creating automated processes.


* Able to be a subject matter expert on multiple opensource opensource.


* Experience managing and administering cloud infrastructure within AWS/Azure.


* Hands-on programming expert with at least two languages, Java, Groovy, Bash, Ruby, Python, NodeJS, Golang, and/or PowerShell.

OOP Preferred.


* Experience with continuous integration and build management tools like Git and Jenkins.


* Familiar with security concerns (server hardening, two-factor authentication, SSL, VPN)


* Knowledgeable in distributed systems and redundancy, high-availability and performance optimizations.


* Familiarity with Agile / Scrum methodologies.


* Must be a self-starter and possess excellent analytical skills.


* Pos...