Senior Systems Engineer

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Provide advanced systems engineering and operational support across enterprise data center, network, cloud, and infrastructure environments.

- Plan, build, deploy, and maintain server and virtualization platforms across Windows, Linux/Unix, and hybrid infrastructures.

- Execute system provisioning, configuration, patching, and lifecycle management activities in alignment with enterprise standards and operational requirements.

- Monitor infrastructure performance, system health, and availability, proactively identifying and resolving issues to ensure continuous operations.

- Lead and support complex troubleshooting, incident response, and service restoration activities across integrated infrastructure domains.

- Coordinate with network, cloud, security, and operations teams to ensure system stability, compliance, and performance optimization.

- Support testing, validation, and deployment of infrastructure changes, ensuring minimal impact to production environments.

- Execute infrastructure migrations across data centers and cloud environments, maintaining service continuity and performance.

- Maintain and update disaster recovery plans, procedures, and runbooks; support testing and execution of recovery activities.

- Produce operational reports, documentation, and performance metrics to support auditability, compliance, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Job-Specific Minimum Requirements:

- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust is required. Active Public Trust and/or DHS Suitability is preferred. U.S. citizenship or U.S. national status required.

- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

- 6+ years of experience in systems engineering, infrastructure operations, or enterprise IT support, including experience across multiple infrastructure domains.

- Demonstrated experience supporting enterprise systems engineering across data center, cloud, and infrastructure environments.

- Proven ability to perform advanced troubleshooting and root cause analysis across server, virtualization, and operating system platforms.

- Experience supporting patching, upgrades, and infrastructure lifecycle management activities.

- Strong understanding of Windows, Linux/Unix systems, and virtualization platforms (e.g., Hyper V, VMware).

- Experience supporting performance monitoring, testing, and system optimization efforts.

- Ability to coordinate with cross-functional teams, including network, cloud, and security teams.

- Experience supporting incident management and service restoration in high-availability environments.

- Experience supporting disaster recovery planning, testing, and execution.

Preferred Skills and Qualifications:

- Experience supporting large-scale enterprise infrastructure environments.

- Familiarity with hybrid environments (on-premises and cloud platforms).

- Experience with automation tools, scripting, or infrastructure as code concepts.

- Knowledge of ITIL-based operations, incident, and change management practices.

- Experience supporting performance monitoring, capacity planning, and system optimization.

- Ability to support complex, multi-domain environments spanning data center, cloud, and network services.

- Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and cross-team collaboration skills.

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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

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100,000.00

Maximum Salary

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140,000.00