Site Reliability Engineer (Systems Manager)

Description & Requirements
Maximus is seeking a Systems Manager to provide expertise to a federal client in support of their mission critical systems in defense of our Homeland.
The Systems Manager will ensure the availability, reliability, and performance of critical systems and applications, utilizing a diverse set of relevant technologies, for a federal client's operations. As a crucial member of our team, the Systems Manager will play a pivotal role in designing, implementing, and managing scalable and highly available systems.
This is an on-site position based in Colorado Springs, CO requiring an active Secret clearance.
Maximus TCS (Technology and Consulting Services) Internal Job Profile Code: TCS137, T5, Band 8
Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and maintain highly available, fault-tolerant systems, leveraging a range of technologies.
Monitor and analyze system performance, utilizing a diverse set of monitoring and alerting tools, and take proactive actions to prevent and resolve incidents.
Conduct system capacity planning and scaling, utilizing performance testing and optimization techniques across various technologies.
Implement and maintain robust backup and disaster recovery solutions, leveraging relevant technologies, to ensure data integrity and system availability.
Collaborate with development teams to ensure application reliability, performance, and scalability in production environments.
Stay updated with industry best practices and emerging trends in site reliability engineering and incorporate relevant technologies. Motivate the team to adhere to IT best practices and deliver outstanding customer service and satisfaction.
Assist in creating and maintaining a training program to increase business, customer service, and technical knowledge.
Participate in the organization's change management process.
Maintain detailed records of incidents, including reporting, classification, and resolution steps for daily and weekly metric reporting.
Gather and present PMR metric reporting to management, contract leadership, and government stakeholders.
Use monitoring tools to proactively identify and address potential issues and generate reports on incident trends.
Collaborate with the Operations Support Center Lead to ensure continuity of daily operations.
Other duties as assigned.
Job-Specific Minimum Requirements:
Active Secret clearance is required.
15+ years of relevant experience supporting IT platforms, environments, and infrastructure is required.
Experience in some or all the following: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (Terraform, Chef, Ansible), Jenkins, GitLab
Candidates must reside within a commutable distance for daily onsite work and on-call requirements.
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.
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Minimum Requirements
TCS137, T5, Band 8
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.
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Minimum Salary
$ 130,000.00
Maximum Salary
$ 150,000.00