Peraton
Peraton
Peraton is a mission-focused enterprise technology company serving national security, military, and government customers. Its work spans advanced IT and cyber services, including cyber defense, cloud operations, engineering, intelligence, and data-driven technology solutions. Peraton brings together large, specialized teams to address complex operational and security challenges, with roles supporting the delivery of technology capabilities for critical missions.

Senior AWS Cloud Engineer

Design and operate secure AWS infrastructure at Peraton, supporting national security and enterprise IT services. Automate deployments, monitor systems, and resolve cloud incidents.

Description

  • Build AWS infrastructure with Terraform and GitLab CI/CD pipelines
  • Advise ADTs on cloud patterns, deployment approaches, and architecture decisions
  • Lead automation across infrastructure as code, pipeline design, and production operations
  • Join the on-call rotation and support observability and monitoring
  • Assist AWS and managed service users with technical guidance
  • Deploy and maintain secure, scalable, highly available AWS infrastructure
  • Monitor AWS environments and resolve performance, availability, and operational incidents
  • Work with development, security, infrastructure, data engineering, and analytics teams
  • Maintain configuration records, diagrams, and standard operating procedures
  • Run backups and perform scheduled upgrades and maintenance during maintenance windows
  • Track security vulnerabilities and carry out upgrades and maintenance as needed
  • Support audits with logs, reports, and system configuration details
  • Administer AWS IAM roles, policies, permissions, and access controls

Requirements

  • U.S. citizenship is required
  • Must be able to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust clearance
  • Must be willing to undergo a customer-required pre-employment credit check
  • Bachelor’s degree plus 8 years of experience, master’s degree plus 6 years, or high school diploma or equivalent plus 12 years
  • Extensive hands-on knowledge of AWS architecture, networking, security, serverless and microservice architectures, and containers
  • Advanced Terraform skills and proficiency with infrastructure as code
  • Experience designing and maintaining GitLab CI/CD pipelines, including reusable shared components for enterprise delivery
  • Practical experience monitoring, analyzing, and troubleshooting SaaS application logs
  • Strong Python and Bash scripting skills; Ansible experience is a plus
  • Proficiency in configuration management, observability, reliability, and disaster recovery
  • Experience automating AWS cloud engineering processes with tools such as Terraform, Python, and GitLab CI
  • Strong Git skills, including branching and release strategies such as GitFlow
  • Preferred: Experience with runners and infrastructure as code tools such as CloudFormation
  • Preferred: Experience with PowerShell, Bash, JavaScript, Node.js, or other scripting languages
  • Preferred: Experience in incident management, root cause analysis, and resolving high-priority incidents in large, multi-tenant environments
  • Preferred: Experience working in an Agile environment

Benefits

  • May be eligible for overtime
  • May be eligible for shift differential
  • May be eligible for a discretionary bonus

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