Senior System Administrator (Cloud Platform)

Maximus TCS (Technology and Consulting Services) Internal Job Profile Code: TCS221, T5, Band 8

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Demonstrated experience and/or training in system administration and development best practices in AWS development.

- Demonstrated experience and/or training in system administration and development best practices in AWS.

- Demonstrated experience with security and compliance of DoW Gov.

Cloud hosted infrastructure.

Job-Specific Minimum Requirements:

- Bachelor's Degree in an associated field

- 10+ years of IT systems administrative experience with both Microsoft and Linux platforms.

- Two years proficient understanding of maintenance (patching, STIG, and upgrade processes) on AWS cloud infrastructure.

- Required Certifications: IAT Level II

Preferred Skills and Qualifications:

- AWS Solutions Architect certification.

- AWS SysOps Administrator certification.

- Red Hat certification.

- Kubernetes certifications (e.g., CKAD, or similar)

- Experience deploying, managing, and supporting Kubernetes clusters in production environments

- Experience operating and maintaining containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes

- Familiarity managing Kubernetes resources such as namespaces, deployments, services, ingress, and storage

- Experience with container technologies (e.g., Docker)

- 5 years' experience with CI/CD software development

- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices (e.g., GitLab, CI/CD tooling)

- Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Helm, or Kustomize

- Familiarity with secrets management tools such as Vault

- Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS preferred; Azure or Google Cloud a plus) in Linux environments

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Minimum Requirements

TCS221, T5, Band 8

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