Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Maximus is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to support its A1 MCE platform. The role designs and manages large-scale Kubernetes environments for containerized workloads, including platform architecture, security, governance, scalability, cloud integration, monitoring, and multi-cloud orchestration.

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

Requirements:

• 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