IaC DevOps Lead

Description & Requirements

Maximus is seeking a skilled IaC DevOps Lead to support vital systems in the defense of our Homeland.

In this role, you will focus on enhancing efficiency by implementing cutting-edge deployment pipelines and fostering collaboration between technical teams and enterprise stakeholders.

With a strong background in IT service management and a passion for driving continuous improvement, you'll play a key role in advancing our delivery processes while aligning them with organizational goals and industry best practices.

This is an on-site position, that requires a Secret Clearance.

Maximus TCS (Technology and Consulting Services) Internal Job Profile Code: TCS088, T4, Band 7

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Requirements:

-Lead architecture and engineering efforts to plan, analyze, design, test, and deploy infrastructure expressed as code.

- Establish, mature, standardize, and maintain DevSecOps processes within the organization by leveraging automation tools and applications including services available in agency's Cloud environments.

- Architect and engineer CI/CD pipelines for development teams and manage configuration of tools and plugins in support of release engineering processes in a SAFe/Agile environment.

- Demonstrated track record of success leading IT services in large enterprise setting as well as critical skills in developing partnerships, modeling behaviors, and developing team capabilities.

- Partner with the enterprise stakeholders, IT support organization and development teams to chart a service delivery roadmap, manage deliverables, SLAs and SLOs.

Job-Specific Minimum Requirements:

- 12+ years of experience in IT Services delivery field

- A High School diploma or GED is required.

- Active Secret clearance is required.

- Due to federal requirements, only US Citizens can be considered.

Candidates with dual citizenship cannot be considered.

- This is an on-site position at a government facility.

- Requires presence on-site five days per week.

- Candidates must reside within a commutable distance to Annapolis Junction, MD.

- Participation in a rotational on-call schedule for emergency page-outs is required.

- 3 years of cloud architect-level experience with AWS, Azure and/or GCP

- 3 years of experience working in an Agile delivery environment

- 2 years of experience building and releasing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) in a controlled environment with an understanding of full lifecycle configuration management

- 3 years of experience in automation scripting using one or more of the following languages: Java, Perl, Ruby, or Python

- 2 years of experience developing coding/scripting to build required automation and tools using Chef, Ruby, YAML, JSON, Python, Bash, Azure CLI, -PowerShell, Java, etc.

- 3 years of hands-on experience with code repository management, code merge and quality checks, continuous integration, and automated deployment & management using tools like Jenkins, SVN, Git...