Maximus

Senior System Administrator (Cloud Platform)

Maximus$140K — $190K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in a related field
  • 10+ years of IT systems administration experience on Microsoft and Linux
  • Proficient understanding of AWS maintenance processes including patching and STIG
  • IAT Level II certification required
  • Demonstrated experience with security and compliance in Gov. Cloud

Responsibilities

  • Analyze and plan for system improvements and requirements
  • Develop procedures and functional architectures
  • Support deployments on AWS for JCO and JCC2 systems
  • Provide critical analysis and recommendations for application issues
  • Deploy hotfixes and patches in a timely manner

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model in San Antonio, TX
  • Participation in limited quarterly travel to Washington, D.C.
  • Engagement in a Fast Action Support Team for critical application analysis
  • Opportunities for ongoing professional development and certifications
Full Job Description
General information

Job Posting Title

Senior System Administrator (Cloud Platform)

Date

Friday, August 21, 2026

City

San Antonio

State

TX

Country

United States

Working time

Full-time

Description & Requirements

Provides subject matter proficiency for work described in the task. Responsible for providing analytical skills to support process improvement, specialized studies, and definition of requirements. Typical duties include analysis, planning, developing procedures, developing functional architectures, and other related management and technical duties. Responsible for supporting deployments of the JCO system on the JCC2 AWS environment, if needed. Responsible for supporting deployments of JCC2-R systems on the JCC2 AWS environment, if needed. Will be included as a member of the Fast Action Support Team and shall be responsible for providing critical and/or time sensitive analysis of application issues and providing recommendations for action such as, but not limited to, developing a hotfix or supporting a rollback.

Participate in limited quarterly travel to Washington, D.C. metropolitan area as needed Responsible for providing support for the timely deployment of hotfixes/patches when necessary.

This role is hybrid in San Antonio, TX and requires Top Secret w/ TS/SCI.

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

Minimum Salary

$

140,000.00

Maximum Salary

$

190,000.00

About Maximus

MAXIMUS, Inc. is an American, outsourcing company that provides business process services to government health and human services agencies in the United States, Australia, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. MAXIMUS focuses on administering government-sponsored programs, such as Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), health care reform, welfare-to-work, Medicare, child support enforcement, and other government programs. The company is based in Reston, Virginia, has 13,000 employees and a reported annual revenue of $3.8 billion in fiscal year 2020.
Learn more about Maximus
Size
35,800 employees
Market Cap
$4.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
$219.8 million
Founded
1975
5 Year Trend
+13.6%
Revenue
$3.5 billion
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