Cloud Computing, Senior Advisor

Peraton; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 112,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k)

PTO and holidays

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a highly motivated Cloud DevOps Engineer with AWS expertise to drive automated deployment, security, and monitoring across mission-critical environments.

Ideal candidates bring deep AWS knowledge, strong CI/CD capabilities with Jenkins, and IaC experience using Terraform and CloudFormation. A public trust clearance is required and after-hours support may be required.

Qualifications

• U.S. citizen with active public trust clearance.
• Minimum 12 years with BS/BA; 10 years with MS/MA; 7 years with PhD.
• Deep AWS experience covering EC2, S3, RDS, CloudWatch and IAM.
• Proficient in Jenkins CI/CD, Terraform, CloudFormation and Ansible.

Responsibilities

• Automate, provision, and monitor CI/CD using AWS and cloud tools.
• Provide hands-on support for mission-critical deployments.
• Implement cloud security, data protection, and monitoring.
• Participate in after-hours pager duty with no travel.

Skills

AWS Cloud

Jenkins CI/CD

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Linux Bash

Security & Compliance

VPC Networking

DevOps Automation

Education

BS/BA in a related field

MS/MA

PhD

Tools

Jenkins

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

EC2

S3

ECS/EKS

CloudWatch

Job description

Cloud Computing, Senior Advisor

Job Locations: US

Requisition ID: 2026-173020

Position Category: Information Technology

Clearance: Public Trust

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can't be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Responsibilities

Peraton is seeking a highly motivated, result-driven Cloud DevOps Engineer with proven success in AWS Cloud information system environments. Must have self-driven proactive work style to meet and exceed established goals and expectations. Must have excellent problem-solving, analytic, and interpersonal skills capable of working individually or within an Agile team.

What you'll do:

The Senior AWS Cloud Devops Engineer will be responsible for the following but not limited to:

• Leveraging AWS Devops and clouds tools to automate, provision, and monitor CI/CD processes.
• Hands-on support for mission-critical deployments
• Implementing security for cloud authentication, authorization, auditing, monitoring
• Implementing data security over client infrastructure and environments.
• After-hours on call rotation shift support through the PagerDuty application
• No travel Required.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of 12 years with BS/BA; Minimum of 10 years with MS/MA; Minimum of 7 years with PhD
• Must be a U.S citizen
• Must have active a public trust clearance
• Must have a AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (or other AWS Associate-level certification)
• Must have knowledge AWS Cloud platform and its features, including EC2, Elastic beanstalk, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, IAM,VPC, EBS, ELB, ALB, Auto Scaling, RDS, S3, EFS, Lambda, IAM, CloudFront, CloudFormation, EKS, and ECS
• Jenkins CI/CD tool for code build, deployment, maintenance
• Configuring Jenkins nodes to build jobs in the view of distributing the load of Jenkins server and achieved parallel builds
• Ansible configuration management tool for maintaining and creating new playbooks, creating post-deployment playbooks, setting up new implementations, alerting, and hardening
• Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Terraform variables, datasources, state, workspaces, provisioner, null resources, modules, cloud and enterprise capabilities, sentinel policies, import, graph, expressions and debugging
• Golden AMI creation for AWS deployments (using Terraform)
• Change set, intrinsic functions, multi resources, mappings and pseudo parameters, outputs and init in CloudFormation
• Must have experience designing cloud security VPC, Network Security, VPC peering, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, VPN and MFA
• Must have experience AWS CloudWatch monitoring, including setting up alarms and analyzing EC2 and load balancer logs
• Must be familar with scripting languages for automating modules on LINUX like BASH
• Must be able to obtain and maintain Public Trust clearance with a Medium Background Investigation.

Desired Qualifications

• Ability to work with limited supervision and produce results within the given timeframe
• Ability to produce documentation
• Ability to articulate clear and concise engineering solutions
• Ability to quickly come up to speed and provide value to the team
• Agile team experience
• Atlassian Jira tool experience

Target Salary Range

$112,000 - $179,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual's experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

Benefits Statement

• medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays.

A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.

EEO

EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.