Cloud Platform Engineer

Maximus TCS (Technology and Consulting Services) Internal Job Profile Code: TCS165, T3, Band 6

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Provide operational support for AWS and Azure cloud environments, including IaaS and PaaS services.

- Manage full virtual machine lifecycle activities across large number of VMs, including provisioning, configuration, patch coordination, scaling, and decommissioning.

- Support Azure subscription management, including expansion from initial environments to scaled multi-subscription architectures aligned with enterprise governance standards.

- Perform backup and restore operations, ensuring data protection, recovery readiness, and compliance with enterprise and federal requirements.

- Design and build cloud environments to support application onboarding, testing, and production deployments.

- Integrate security controls, automated testing, and compliance scanning into pipeline workflows to support secure software delivery and platform hardening.

- Monitor cloud platforms for performance, availability, and security, supporting incident response and troubleshooting activities in coordination with operations teams.

- Collaborate with cloud engineers, architects, and enterprise teams to align cloud implementations with architecture standards and operational best practices.

- Support cloud platforms that enable VoIP, VTC, and real-time communications systems, ensuring reliability, performance, and operational continuity.

Job-Specific Minimum Requirements:

- Demonstrated experience supporting AWS / Azure IaaS and PaaS environments, including VM lifecycle management, networking, and platform services.

- Hands-on experience managing large-scale VM environments (hundreds of VMs) in enterprise or federal settings.

- Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., ARM templates, Bicep, Terraform) for automated provisioning and configuration.

- Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Azure DevOps, GitLab, Jenkins, or similar.

- Demonstrated experience integrating security scanning, compliance checks, and automated testing into DevSecOps pipelines.

- Experience supporting backup, restore, and disaster recovery operations within cloud environments.

- Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools (e.g., Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Splunk, or equivalent).

- Experience supporting incident response, troubleshooting, and production operations in mission-critical systems.

- Ability to create and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and deployment procedures.

- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Additional years of relevant experience will be considered in lieu of degree.

- 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering, DevSecOps, or AWS or Azure platform operations.

Preferred Skills and Qualifications:

- Experience supporting federal government environments.

- Experience operating...