Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Maximus is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to support the A1 MCE platform. The role designs and manages large-scale Kubernetes environments, implements container security and governance, and provides architecture guidance while supporting scalability, CI/CD integration, multi-cloud orchestration, monitoring, and logging.
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
Skills
- This role is remote and requires a Secret security clearance
- • 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
- • 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
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement
- Health insurance coverage
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Retirement savings plan
- Paid holidays
- Paid time off
- Short- and long-term incentives
- Program-specific awards
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