Senior Director, Secure DevOps Requisition at Maximus
Denver, CO
$204,400–$306,600from the description
Jul 27, 2026
Denver, CO
Jul 28, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior technical leadership role at Maximus focused on designing and operating secure, scalable DevOps infrastructure across cloud and on-premises environments for government clients. The position involves directing multiple teams of DevOps and SRE engineers, architecting Kubernetes-based and microservices solutions, driving CI/CD adoption, and managing cloud cost optimization. It suits an experienced engineer-architect who is equally comfortable with hands-on technical solutioning and stakeholder management.
Principal level · 12+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Full-time
Advertised as Senior, but the requirements read as Principal.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 10 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 890 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 540–1,350
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The title is 'Senior Director' — a people-management framing — which would normally suggest SOC 11-3021 (Computer and Information Systems Managers). However, the posting's essential duties are heavily hands-on: architecting Kubernetes clusters, building CI/CD pipelines, and developing infrastructure components. The role is classified as 15-1252 (Software Developers) to reflect that primary technical/engineering work, with 11-3021 as the runner-up given the team-management scope.
Seniority is assessed as Principal despite the 'Senior' in the title: the role carries org-wide technical authority, directs multiple teams, and requires 12+ years — well above the typical Senior band.
The degree requirement is Bachelor's; the posting states 'additional years of relevant experience will be considered in lieu of degree,' which would normally yield None, but the Job-Specific Minimum Requirements separately hard-states 'Bachelor's degree in a closely related field' without an equivalency escape — treated as a hard gate.
Terraform, Ansible, and Helm are listed together under 'infrastructure automation tools (Terraform, Ansible, etc.)' in the job-specific duties section. They are distinct tools used alongside each other (not interchangeable substitutes), so each is emitted separately; Terraform carries Ansible and Helm as alternatives only in the sense the posting groups them — they are all marked required.
AWS is listed as the primary example of cloud platforms alongside Azure and GCP; all three are captured with Azure and GCP as alternatives since the posting treats them as interchangeable options.
Monitoring/alerting tools (Grafana, Prometheus) and GitOps tools (Argo CD, Flux CD, Fleet) appear under 'Familiarity with…' — softer language — and are marked preferred.
Security+ certification and database technologies (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MongoDB) appear under the job-specific duties section but are framed as 'preferred' or 'familiarity/knowledge' — marked preferred accordingly.
A Master's degree is listed under 'Preferred Skills and Qualifications' — not a hard requirement.
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