Platform Engineer SME

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

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Performs MLOPs and DevSecOps engineering operations to include Mission-Driven Design, Static Code Analysis, CI/CD Automation, Security Scanning, Model Scanning, Audit & Compliance, Secure and Post Deployment and Artifact Assurance.

- Builds and manages the underlying infrastructure, platforms, and tooling that support application, data, and AI workloads.

- Designs resilient, scalable, and secure environments that optimize resource utilization and performance.

- Streamlines developer workflows by implementing automation, integration pipelines, and platform services that accelerate delivery and maintain operational reliability.

- Identify, prepare, track, secure, and integrate government, commercial and open-source tools and services into the CDAO System.

- Build and foster relationships with industry and academia.

- Analyze and review the latest advances in commercial/open-source data, analytic, and AI technologies.

- Prepare, and integrate commercial and open-source tools into the CDAO System within a timely manner.

- Assist vendor engineers in preparing and integrating tools to meet Industry, DoW, and CDAO standards.

- Integrate government, commercial, and open-source software, data, and AI tools.

Job-Specific Minimum Requirements:

- Must either have a Bachelor degree or higher from an accredited college or university OR Valid certification of DoD 8140 (CASP+ or CCNP Security or CCSP).

- Must have an active Top Secret clearance and ability to obtain SCI and CI Poly.

- 7+ years of experience as an application developer.

- Demonstrated experience with:

- Architecting and designing software using MBSE approaches (Requirements specification, User Behavior models, Component Design, and requirements traceability)

- Building and/or integrating Custom or COTS software products through MLOPS and DevSecOps automated tools within a cloud-based environment

- Installing, configuring, and managing Data and/or AI related COTS enterprise SW platforms in support of capability builders who develop Data, AI, and SW capabilities

- Engineering and operating data and AI platform tools (for example: DataBricks, Plantir, Collibra, Tableau) and performing at least 5 out of the following functions: Mission-Driven Design, Static Code Analysis, CI/CD Automation, Security Scanning, Model Scanning, Artifact Assurance, Secure and Post Deployment and Audit and Compliance.

- Experience with Agile software development methodologies and working in a dynamic MLOPS/DevSecOps team.

- Strong problem-solving, troubleshooting, and analytical skills.

• Proficiency utilizing Atlassian and open source tools such JIRA, Jenkins, Github and SonarCube.

Preferred Skills and Qualifications:

- Experience successfully developing, configuring, and / or managing capabilities within the CDAO ecosystem to meet Government requ...