Description & Requirements
Maximus is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer with significant experience in Kubernetes design and architecture. The Senior Cloud Platform Engineer designs and manages large-scale Kubernetes environments supporting containerized workloads across the A1 MCE platform.
This role is remote and requires a Secret security clearance.
Maximus TCS (Technology and Consulting Services) Internal Job Profile Code: TCS195, T3, Band 6
Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Architect and operate enterprise Kubernetes clusters.
- Implement security hardening and compliance within container platforms
- Define container platform standards and governance.
- Provide architecture guidance for containerized applications to Lead Cloud Architect and government stakeholders.
- Ensure scalability, performance, and security of container workloads.
- Integrate Kubernetes into CI/CD pipelines and cloud platforms.
- Support multi-cloud container orchestration strategies.
- Support monitoring and logging for container environments.
- Collaborate with cloud architects and engineering teams
Job-Specific Minimum Requirements:
- Active Secret security clearance.
- U.S. Citizenship is required.
- 5+ years Kubernetes platform experience.
- Advanced certification (e.g. CKA, CKS, or similar advanced Kubernetes/platform certification).
- Active IAT/IAM Level II certification
- Experience with DoD cloud environments (e.g., Platform One, Cloud One, AWS Gov Cloud, etc.) and Kubernetes-based PaaS.
Preferred Skills and Qualifications:
- Expertise with service mesh (Istio/Linkerd) and ingress architectures.
- Experience in multi-cluster / multi-region deployments to include scaling best practices and related strategies.
- Knowledge of container security (runtime protection, image scanning).
- Familiarity with GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux) and platform automation.
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Minimum Requirements
TCS195, T3, Band 6
Minimum Salary
$
140,000.00
Maximum Salary
$
160,000.00
