IT Architect – Cloud Platform

Maximus is currently seeking an IT Architect - Cloud Platform to lead the vision, design, and evolution of enterprise platform ecosystems across cloud infrastructure, Dev Sec Ops , Kubernetes, and data platforms. This role is responsible for defining architecture strategy, governance models, and engineering standards while ensuring platforms are secure, scalable, and developer‑friendly.

The IT Architect operates at an enterprise level, influencing multiple teams and domains, driving platform modernization, and ensuring alignment with business, security, and compliance objectives while remaining selectively hands‑on in critical areas.

This is a remote position.

• Design, implement, and optimize enterprise SaaS and PaaS platform architectures, automation solutions, and deployment frameworks to improve scalability, availability, security, and operational efficiency.

• Lead the evaluation, design, and implementation of cloud platform solutions, providing architectural recommendations that address business, operational, and technical requirements.

• Serve as a subject matter expert for cloud platform technologies, providing technical guidance, mentoring, and consultation to project teams, engineers, and stakeholders.

• Design and maintain platform infrastructure, disaster recovery capabilities, and high-availability solutions to support reliable and resilient service delivery.

• Analyze complex technical issues, perform root cause investigations, and develop innovative solutions to improve platform performance, reliability, and manageability.

• Evaluate and recommend new cloud services, platform technologies, and software integrations, including proof-of-concept efforts and adoption recommendations for emerging capabilities.

• Collaborate with engineering, security, operations, and application teams to promote cloud architecture standards, automation best practices, and operational procedures.

• Lead the development and enhancement of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code solutions, automated testing frameworks, and deployment processes to support efficient software delivery and platform operations.

• Define enterprise AWS architecture patterns for multi account, secure, and scalable environments.

• Govern infrastructure design across compute, storage, networking, IAM, and data services.

• Set standards for resilience (HA/DR), cost optimization, and security posture.

• Provide architectural oversight for RDS, Open Search, messaging, and distributed systems.

• Define and evolve Kubernetes platform strategy (EKS) across environments.

• Establish standards for Git Ops, Helm, multi cluster operations, and platform abstraction.

• Drive adoption of secure, scalable cloud native patterns.

• Ensure integration of runtime security, observability, and policy enforcement.

• Define and govern enterprise Dev Sec Ops  strategy, standards, and operating models.

• Architect secure CI/CD frameworks with built in quality, security, and compliance gates.

• Establish enterprise patterns for software supply chain security, including SCA, artifact governance, and policy enforcement.

• Standardize and oversee tooling across Sonar Qube, JFrog (Artifactory/Xray), Jenkins, and Git Ops (Argo CD).

• Drive shift left security adoption and developer enablement.

• Align Dev Sec Ops  practices with security, risk, and compliance requirements.

• Define architecture for data platforms and ETL ecosystems (e.g., Talend).

• Ensure secure, resilient integration patterns across databases, messaging, APIs, and file transfer systems.

• Establish standards for data reliability, observability, and performance optimization.

• Drive adoption of Internal Developer Platforms (IDP) and self service capabilities.

• Define reusable platform services, APIs, and golden paths for development teams.

• Partner with Developer Experience teams to reduce cognitive load and improve productivity.

• Define enterprise standards for observability,…