AIOps & Automation Leader — Infra & ML Ops

Peraton; Texas; Hybrid; USD 104,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking an Automation & AIOps Lead to support the Texas DIR program in the Austin/San Angelo region. You will provide technical leadership for infrastructure automation, IaC, and AI-enabled operations, driving the Enterprise Control Plane and Peraton[x] platform.

The role emphasizes expertise in DevOps/MLOps, AIOps, and ServiceNow integration, with focus on automation savings and governance under the NIST AI RMF framework. This is a full-time, on-site position in Texas.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 8 years of experience or 12 years with a HS Diploma.
• 8+ years of infrastructure automation and DevOps/MLOps engineering experience.
• Terraform proficiency is required.
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) proficiency required.
• GitLab CI/CD pipeline engineering experience required.
• Experience with AIOps platforms (e.g., Splunk ITSI, Dynatrace) or equivalent.
• Experience with ML forecasting for capacity management and SLA breach prediction.
• Experience with ServiceNow integration/development (IntegrationHub, CSDM, ITOM).
• Experience with AI/ML operations (NVIDIA AI Enterprise, OpenShift, GPU scheduling) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for infrastructure automation, DevOps/MLOps, AIOps, AI/ML operations, observability, IaC, and ServiceNow integration.
• Drive automation and AI-enabled operations across the program, including the Enterprise Control Plane and Peraton[x] platform.
• Lead IaC pipeline delivery using Terraform, Ansible, and GitLab CI.
• Manage the AIOps telemetry pipeline (Splunk ITSI, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• Support ServiceNow accelerators and schema-validated flows.
• Lead automation savings reconciliation and validation for the DIR rate glide path.
• Report to the Technical Director and co-own the Application Architecture domain.

Skills

Infrastructure automation

DevOps/MLOps

AIOps

AI governance

Observability

Automation savings

Automation leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

HS Diploma + 12 years experience

Tools

Terraform

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP)

GitLab CI/CD

NVIDIA AI Enterprise

OpenShift/Kubernetes

Job description

Peraton is seeking an Automation & AIOps Lead to support the Texas DIR program in the Austin/San Angelo region. You will provide technical leadership for infrastructure automation, IaC, and AI-enabled operations, driving the Enterprise Control Plane and Peraton[x] platform.

The role emphasizes expertise in DevOps/MLOps, AIOps, and ServiceNow integration, with focus on automation savings and governance under the NIST AI RMF framework. This is a full-time, on-site position in Texas.