Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Job Summary
The Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Maximus ensures operational stability, performance, and reliability of the A1 MCE platform through automation, monitoring, and continuous improvement of platform services. This role is Hybrid at our San Antonio office and requires a Secret security clearance.
Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Work in concert with Lead Cloud Architect and Lead Security Architect to ensure platform reliability and performance meeting contractually dictated SLA thresholds
- Develop and implement strategies leveraging FOSS, COTS, and GOTS technologies to enhance the reliability, resiliency, and scalability of the platform while ensuring compatibility with the multi-cloud, multi-tenant environment of the MCE
- Maintain uptime, scalability, and resilience of platform services
- Oversee system performance tuning and optimization
- Develop and implement automation (IaC, pipelines)
- Manage monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks
- Support VDI, CI/CD pipelines, and platform infrastructure
- Drive incident management, problem management, and root cause analysis
- Collaborate with DevSecOps and architecture teams for delivery integration
Job-Specific Minimum Requirements
- Active Secret clearance
- Ability to commute as needed to the work location in San Antonio, Texas
- 7+ years in systems admin/DevOps/SRE
- Cloud/DevOps certification
- Active IAT/IAM Level II baseline certification
- Experience with logging tools (Splunk, Elastic)
- Experience integrating reliability engineering practices into DevSecOps pipelines
Preferred Skills and Qualifications
- Experience in high-availability IL5/IL6 cloud environments
- Experience supporting enterprise-scale data, analytics, or AI platforms
- Advanced scripting (Python, PowerShell, Bash)
- Expertise in observability (metrics, tracing, AIOps)
- Experience implementing SLO/SLI frameworks
- Familiarity with platform engineering and internal developer platforms (IDP)
Benefits
- Health insurance coverage
- Life and disability insurance
- A retirement savings plan
- Paid holidays and paid time off
Pay
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.