Engineer - Cloud Operations

Description & Requirements

MAXIMUS is a leading operator of government health and human services programs and has partnered with state, federal and local governments to provide critical, high quality health and human service programs to a diverse array of communities.

Operating under MAXIMUS's founding mission of Helping Government Serve the People® since 1975, MAXIMUS Federal Services is entirely focused on helping government agencies run programs cost-effectively and serve program constituents with improved outcomes.

By being a responsible steward for government programs, we help the federal government deliver on its promises through our people, process, and technology.

Our focus is always on outcomes and results that connect citizens more effectively with government services.

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.

This is a remote position.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

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

- Build and drive adoption for greater reliability, resiliency, and scalability of our production applications, while maintaining a cost conscious 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 services and collaborate with other cloud support teams that support the overall organization.

- 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.

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- 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 recover...