Cloud Administrator – AI/ML TS./SCI w Poly

Peraton; Laurel (MD); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a talented Cloud Administrator to join their Cyber Intelligence team in Laurel, MD. You will operate in a collaborative environment, delivering user experience feedback while supporting large-scale cloud solutions. The ideal candidate will have seven years of experience and an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.

You will collaborate with various teams to provide innovative solutions in a fast-paced, mission-driven setting, utilizing technologies like Hadoop, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• Seven years of experience as Cloud Administrator.
• Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph required.
• Experience with managing large distributed systems (>1000 nodes).

Responsibilities

• Support implementation and troubleshooting of cloud solutions.
• Conduct user experience research and optimization.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to improve design solutions.

Skills

Experience with Large Language Models (LLM)

Expertise in AWS Cloud Architecture

Knowledge of security and compliance best practices

Agile development experience

Well-grounded in Linux fundamentals

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics

Tools

Hadoop

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Basic Qualifications

• Operate in an agile development environment requiring the delivery of User Experience feedback.
• Conduct User Experience research and optimization.
• Create final visual designs, storyboards, interaction flows, and interface guidelines.
• Take a user-centered approach in crafting design solutions that meet both user needs and product strategy requirements.
• Collaborate with Product Owners to rapidly prototype and iterate on multiple design solutions.
• Review final implementation with front-end developers to ensure design standards are followed.
• Analyze and provide solutions for project life cycle design including interviewing customers, clearly articulating customer requirements to design team, creating visual designs/prototypes, presenting information to customers, and helping solve and clarify questions and problems.
• Participate in several diverse engineering teams to conduct User Experience research and optimization.
• Collaborate with stakeholders within various customer bases to provide recommendations to other Designers.

Position Requirements (Experience and Education)

• An Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required
• Seven (7) years of experience is required.
• A Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics is required from an accredited college or university.
• Hadoop/Cloud System Administrator Certification or comparable Cloud System/Service Certification is required to have one of the following Cloud Developer Certifications:
  • AWS DevOps Engineer Professional
  • CDP Administrator - Private Cloud Base
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Additional Desired Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge of SSH tunneling and protocols, including the implementation of dynamic SOCKS proxies as well as other ssh-based utilities, including rysn, pdsh, pdcp, and WinSCP.
• Basic understanding of low-level network concepts including VLANs, port channel bonding and layer2/layer 3 switch interactions.
• Familiarity with software load balancers for large scale webservice implementations including HAProxy and NGINX
• Experience with Kubernetes orchestration services and Docker images.
• Experience with log aggregation and search tools including Elasticsearch, Logstash, filebeats, Grafana, and rsyslog.

Are you passionate about building cutting-edge cloud solutions that support national security? Do you thrive in fast-paced, mission-driven environments? Peraton is seeking a talented and skilled Cloud Administrator to join our Cyber Intelligence team in Laurel, MD. As part of a collaborative, high-impact integrated product development team, you’ll work on next-generation cyber and AI/ML capabilities hosted on large-scale compute clusters and AWS Cloud infrastructure. This is your chance to help shape innovative services that make a real difference. Interested in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning? If so, this is the position for you.

The Cloud Administrator provides support for implementation and troubleshooting and maintenance on large Hadoop/Cloud clusters.

Competencies and Skills

• Experience with Large Language Models (LLM), Agentic AI, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
• Expertise in AWS Cloud Architecture design and development
• Agile development experience with source code management practices and tools
• Well-grounded in Linux fundamentals and knowledge in at least one scripting language (e.g. Python, Ruby, Perl, etc.)
• Knowledge of security and compliance best practices

The Level Cloud Administrator shall possess the following capabilities

• Shall have at least three (3) years of experience managing and monitoring large distributed systems (>1000 nodes)
• Shall have experience diagnosing and troubleshooting large scale cloud computing systems including familiarity with distributed systems for storage and retrieval of data e.g. Apache's Hadoop, Accumulo, CASSANDRA distributed databases, or SCALITY or SWIFT object stores.
• Shall have demonstrated ability to work within a pre-defined mission focused team structure, follow SOP's, communicate effectively, accept constructive feedback and receive technical guidance and advice from senior level technical resources.
• Shall have demonstrated a willingness to learn new technologies and leverage senior level resources to expand current technical foundation using team structure.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently on complex tasks, show a willingness to educate and train more junior technical resources.
• Shall have five (5) years of experience writing software scripts using scripting languages including Bash, Perl, or Python.
• Shall have seven (7) years of experience demonstrating a fundamental understanding and working knowledge of core components of the Linux operating system including the management of user and group accounts in LDAP configuration of DHCP, DNS, and TFTP.
• Shall have demonstrated experience with configuration management tools including Puppet and SALT
• Expert understanding of the end-to-end Linux PXE/Network provisioning process to include familiarity with Anaconda Kickstart configurations, RAID controller utilities, TFTP images, and disk detect scripts.
• Experience accessing and troubleshooting systems via remote utilities to perform hardware diagnosis and repair including VNC, serial over LAN interfaces, and IPMI, BIOS-level configuration.
• Understanding of overall corporate architecture as well as familiarity with openSSL and Java keystore manipulation.
• Expert in troubleshooting commodity hardware platforms including previous experiences with SGI/HP hardware including SGI's J series.