Sr. Engineer Cloud Operations

Maximus
Chicago, IL
Description & Requirements

The Sr. Cloud Engineer is a hands-on position that requires the ability to plan, design, and implement technical cloud solutions. You will help combine software and systems to develop creative engineering solutions for streamlined operations. Much of our support focuses on optimizing legacy systems, deploying new infrastructure and cloud services, and reducing work through automation of legacy processes. You will join a dedicated team of professionals with a diverse set of experiences and skills. In this environment, you will take a hands-on lead for the dedicated support team, supported by a larger matrixed IT organization.

This is a remote position.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

- Work with development teams throughout the software life cycle ensuring sustainable software releases.

- Perform hands on management of cloud infrastructure and automation tools.

- Document cloud architecture, security measures, and participate in client audits.

- May provide guidance, coaching, and training to other employees within job area on automation technologies, and collaborate with other cloud support teams that support the overall organization.

- Serve as the primary technical point of contact for all cloud services consumed by the business.

- Lead performance testing, chaos engineering, and remediation efforts for continual improvement.

-Embrace and advocate a DevOps mindset

-Troubleshoot major incidents, facilitate blameless post-mortem RCA documentation

-Work with development teams throughout the software life cycle ensuring sustainable software releases

-Perform analytics on previous incidents and usage patterns to better predict issues and take proactive corrective action

-Build and drive adoption for greater reliability, resiliency, and scalability of our production applications, while maintaining a cost conscience approach

-Lead and participate in performance tests; identify bottlenecks, opportunities for optimization, and capacity demands

-Lead and participate in disaster recovery tests for the environments you manage

-Perform hands on management of cloud infrastructure and automation tools

-Document cloud architecture, security measures, and participate in client audits

-Mentor and train other members of the dedicated DevOps team and collaborate with other cloud support teams that support the overall organization

-Understanding cloud security best practices and work with security teams to design

and implement a security plan

-Serve as a technical point of contact for all cloud services consumed by the team, and communicate any new enterprise standards or best practices to be adopted by the DevOps teams

-Participate in the 24x7 support coverage as needed

Critical Soft Skills:

-Excellent interpersonal skills to interact with customers, peers, and executives

-Excellent organization and communication skills, both written and verbal

-Ability to multi-task and to prioritize rapidly changing client demands, in a fast-paced and deadline-oriented environment

-Ability to work well both independently and in teams

Minimum Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study and 5+ years of relevant professional experience required, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

-Bachelor or master's degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. Equivalent experience considered in lieu of degree

-Technical proficiencies include Terraform, Linux/Bash scripting, Github, and Jenkins.

-8+ years of overall IT experience

-5+ years of hands-on experience in a major cloud provider (Azure, AWS, Google, Oracle)

-2+ years of hands-on AWS experience

-3+ years of scripting/automation experience

-Working knowledge in scripting languages and automation tools (JSON, Python, Ansible, GitHub, CodeShuttle) with respect to managing deployment automation

-Advanced knowledge of infrastructure components (networking, load balancing, cloud services, orchestration tools, containerization, compute, and storage systems)

-Working knowledge of Windows and Unix based operating systems

-Familiarity with Splunk, AppDynamics or other monitoring tools

-Experience in a client facing production support environment

Preferred Skills and Qualifications:

Cloud Certifications Desired (ranked by preference)

  • AWS DevOps Engineer Professional
  • AWS SysOps Admin - Associate
  • AWS Solutions Architect - Associate or Professional
  • AWS Developer - Associate
  • SAFe Certifications Desired (not required)
  • SAFe Practitioner
  • SAFe DevOps Practitioner
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EEO Statement


Maximus is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics.

Pay Transparency


Maximus compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to job location, a candidate's education, training, experience, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value analysis including seniority and merit systems, as well as internal pay alignment. Annual salary is just one component of Maximus's total compensation package. Other rewards may include short- and long-term incentives as well as program-specific awards. Additionally, Maximus provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off. Compensation ranges may differ based on contract value but will be commensurate with job duties and relevant work experience. An applicant's salary history will not be used in determining compensation. Maximus will comply with regulatory minimum wage rates and exempt salary thresholds in all instances.

Accommodations
Maximus provides reasonable accommodations to individuals requiring assistance during any phase of the employment process due to a disability, medical condition, or physical or mental impairment. If you require assistance at any stage of the employment process-including accessing job postings, completing assessments, or participating in interviews,-please contact People Operations at [email protected] .

Minimum Salary


$

123,440.00

Maximum Salary


$

160,000.00

Posted 2025-09-27

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