Description & Requirements
IaC DevOps Lead
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
Yearly Base Pay: $120,000 - $180,000
Work Arrangement: Hybrid-Remote
Clearance Requirement: Must possess Active Secret Clearance
Empower mission-critical systems and safeguard our Homeland as a IaC DevOps Lead with Maximus—where innovation meets opportunity.
About the role:
Maximus is seeking a skilled IaC DevOps Lead to support vital systems in the defense of our Homeland. In this hybrid-remote role, you will focus on enhancing efficiency by implementing cutting-edge deployment pipelines and fostering collaboration between technical teams and enterprise stakeholders. With a strong background in IT service management and a passion for driving continuous improvement, you’ll play a key role in advancing our delivery processes while aligning them with organizational goals and industry best practices.
What we offer:
- Unlimited Time Off (UTO)
- Competitive Health Benefits
- 401K With Company Match
- 11 paid Holidays
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Employee Wellness and Discount Programs
- Career Development and Promotional Opportunities
Project Specific Responsibilities:
- Lead architecture and engineering efforts to plan, analyze, design, test, and deploy infrastructure expressed as code
- Establish, mature, standardize, and maintain DevSecOps processes within the organization by leveraging automation tools and applications including services available in agency’s Cloud environments/s
- Architect and engineer CI/CD pipelines for development teams and manage configuration of tools and plugins in support of release engineering processes in a SAFe/Agile environment
- Demonstrated track record of success leading IT services in large enterprise setting as well as critical skills in developing partnerships, modeling behaviors, and developing team capabilities
- Partner with the enterprise stakeholders, IT support organization and development teams to chart a service delivery roadmap, manage deliverables, SLAs and SLOs
Project Minimum Requirements:
- Candidates must possess an Active Secret clearance
- Due to agency and contract requirements, candidates must be U.S. citizens with no dual citizenship
- This contract supports systems that require 24x7x365 uptime
- Candidates must be willing and able to meet recall requirements, including participation in a rotational on-call schedule
- Candidates must reside within a commutable distance from Annapolis, MD, and be prepared to work onsite at the customer's discretion
- Onsite presence is required during the transition period and as needed thereafter
- High School Diploma, GED, or equivalent
- 8+ years of experience in IT Services delivery field
- Must possess the following:
- 3 years of cloud architect level experience with AWS, Azure and/or GCP
- 3 years of experience working in an Agile delivery environment
- 2 years of experience building and releasing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) in a controlled environment with an understanding of full lifecycle configuration management
- 3 years of experience in automation scripting using one or more of the following languages: Java, Perl, Ruby, or Python
- 2 years of experience developing coding/scripting to build required automation and tools using Chef, Ruby, YAML, JSON, Python, Bash, Azure CLI, PowerShell, Java, etc.
- 3 years of hands-on experience with code repository management, code merge and quality checks, continuous integration, and automated deployment & management using tools like Jenkins, SVN, GitHub, GitLab, Chef, Ansible, Art factory, Remedy, SonarQube, Fortify, Selenium
- Effective presentation skills with an ability to make technology concepts accessible to colleagues outside of technology