Platform Lead

General information Job Posting Title Platform Lead Date Thursday, May 7, 2026 City Springfield State VA Country United States Working time Full-time Description & Requirements Maximus is a trusted federal partner supporting mission‑critical programs across national security, defense, and public service delivery. Our work focuses on sustaining, operating, and improving essential government systems and services, with proven operational excellence, and a commitment to mission success for our customers. Joining Maximus means becoming part of a collaborative, mission‑driven organization where teamwork, accountability, and professional growth are core to how we operate. We invest in our workforce through training, education, and career development, empowering professionals to deliver high‑impact solutions while contributing to outcomes that matter at a national scale. This position is contingent upon contract award and position availability. Selected candidates will receive a contingent offer of employment, which will become final only upon successful contract award to Maximus, availability of the position, and receipt of authorization to proceed. This role is hybrid and may be based out of either the Springfield, VA or Stennis, MS location, with an anticipated requirement to work on‑site approximately 50% of the time and occasional travel to other site locations, based on customer needs. An active Secret clearance is required. Maximus TCS (Technology and Consulting Services)

Internal Job Profile Code:

TCS136, T4, Band 7

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Serves as the technical authority for TSA enterprise platforms supporting 24x7x365 mission‑critical operations, overseeing and actively engineering platform capabilities across cloud, infrastructure, and hybrid environments to ensure continuous availability, resilience, and operational stability.
• Designs, builds, configures, and maintains cloud and infrastructure platforms, including AWS and Azure environments, virtual compute, operating systems, storage platforms, and shared services that host TSA applications and data.
• Leads platform provisioning and environment management for production, test, development, and sandbox environments, ensuring consistency, scalability, performance, and compliance with TSA and DHS operational requirements.
• Oversees and engineers deployment pipeline platforms, including CI/CD automation, infrastructure‑as‑code, version control, artifact management, and controlled release mechanisms to support secure and repeatable system deployments.
• Provides technical oversight and hands‑on support for platform monitoring, logging, alerting, and capacity management solutions, ensuring real‑time visibility into system health, performance, and availability.
• Acts as a senior technical escalation point for platform incidents, leading root cause analysis, coordinating cross‑team troubleshooting, and driving restoration of service for high‑impact platform failures.
• Ensures platform services integrate with identity, access, security, patching, change, and disaster recovery processes, embedding platform controls into enterprise operations and cybersecurity workflows.
• Maintains platform architecture documentation, configuration baselines, and operational procedures, ensuring audit readiness, lifecycle traceability, and effective knowledge transfer to TSA and contractor staff.

Mentors and guides platform engineers while remaining directly engaged in engineering tasks, balancing hands‑on technical execution with oversight of platform stability, risk, and long‑term sustainability.

Job-Specific Minimum Requirements:

• Designs and implements enterprise infrastructure and platforms required for cloud computing.
• Analyzes system requirements and ensures that systems will be securely integrated with current applications.
• Has a deep understanding of system development in cloud environments, including Software as Service (SaaS), Platform as Service (PaaS), or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
• Reports to a manager or head of a unit/department.
• Work is generally independent and collaborative in nature.
• May supervise other Cloud Architects.
• BA/BS required.
• 8+ years of required work-related experience.
• Hybrid with travel to various locations such as Springfield VA and Stennis MS.

Preferred Skills and Qualifications:

• ITSM Experience and/or Certifications.
• ITIL.
• Certification from an accredited PM institute like PMP or PMI.
• Experience in a Secure, 24/7 Operations Environment #techjobs #clearance #veteransPage Minimum Requirements TCS136, T4, Band 7 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 applicantaccom@maximus.com . Minimum Salary $ 170,000.00 Maximum Salary $ 215,200.00 < Back to job list Apply Refer a Candidate Share this job: Facebook X Similar jobs New Provider Liaison

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