AWS Cloud Architect (Containerization / K8) - Remote Washington DC area only
Full Time
Remote
Up to $185,000 a year
Posted
Job description
Job Description Summary:
Maximus is searching for an AWS Cloud Architect with Kubernetes subject matter expertise with hands on experience managing, deploying, and maintaining Kubernetes Clusters in AWS.
The qualified candidate will work with customers and other operations team engineers in automation and Security to architect containerization-based solutions and improve reliability. Must be able and willing to document their processes using agile methodologies. In addition, this individual should be inquisitive to new technologies and learn at a fast pace.
Position is remote in Washington DC area only, and will periodically require being onsite at the Maximus McLean, Virginia office.
Essential Job Duties:
Education and Experience:
Preferred Experience
Additional Requirements as per contract/client:
Green Card Holder / US Citizens only
Job Summary:
The qualified candidate will work with customers and other operations team engineers in automation and Security to architect containerization-based solutions and improve reliability. Must be able and willing to document their processes using agile methodologies. In addition, this individual should be inquisitive to new technologies and learn at a fast pace.
Position is remote in Washington DC area only, and will periodically require being onsite at the Maximus McLean, Virginia office.
Essential Job Duties:
- Must quantify failures and availabilities in a prescriptive manner (SLIs, SLOs, SLAs). Monitor all customer-facing applications and infrastructure to ensure they are working optimally
- Must be a fast-learning individual who is resourceful and has an inquisitive mindset
- Resolve support escalation cases by troubleshooting issues and finding opportunities to improve application’s architecture and system infrastructure
- Must work efficiently and have an agile mindset
- Familiarity with implementation of gradual changes, phased deployments (canary deployments), and intermediate change
- Build and manage Dockerfile to be deployed on Kubernetes deployments
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university, preferred in Information Technology or Computer Science; Additional Experience would be considered in lieu of degree
- At least 12 years of related experience
- Experienced and certified AWS Solution Architect
- Expertise in AWS, Kubernetes ( EKS as well as Direct Kubernetes experience) , K8s security, containerization, CKAD certification, Kubernetes Operator framework.
- Knowledge of CNCF incubated projects around K8s
- Ability to debug and work hands on with these technologies
- Must have a good understanding and fluency of AWS native services and industry standard Saas, PaaS, and IaaS Solutions
- Hands on experience managing containerized workloads and services with Container Orchestration using Kubernetes (AWS EKS preferred)
- Fluency and expertise with Jenkins, Git
- Must have industry certification (i.e., AWS Solutions Architect, Kubernetes Administrator certification, HashiCorp Terraform Associate, etc.).
Preferred Experience
- Strong experience with CFT, Terraform, Ansible Playbook development
- Intermediate-level scripting in Bash
- Log shipping application logs to Splunk and AWS Cloud watch
- Expert level RHEL 8, using cloud-init for provisioning
- Experience implementing a continuous integration (CI) or continuous development (CD) pipeline in Jenkins using Declarative Pipeline language
Additional Requirements as per contract/client:
Green Card Holder / US Citizens only
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Oversee the automation processes for daily activities, build activities and new feature and functionality with public and private cloud
- Interact with other team members and groups within the IT organization
- Help enforce the standards for server builds and services deployed in AWS and the private cloud by the cloud solutions teams
- Perform other duties assigned by leadership
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university, preferred in Information Technology or Computer Science
- Minimum of 12 years experience with infrastructure, IT systems and automation
- AWS and/or Azure Certification(s)
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