Cloud DevOps Engineer

Peraton; Herndon (VA); Remote; USD 86,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is hiring a Cloud DevOps Engineer for a fully remote position. The role focuses on managing AWS cloud infrastructure, automation, and security practices for a DOI-driven multi-cloud hosting program.

This is a national US remote opportunity requiring US citizenship and eligibility for a Public Trust clearance. The candidate will work with CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, and GitLab Runners to automate deployments, monitor systems with CloudWatch and DataDog, and optimize costs while

Qualifications

• Experience designing, deploying and managing cloud-based solutions on AWS.
• Strong CI/CD experience and infrastructure as code tooling.
• Citizenship required; ability to obtain and maintain Public Trust clearance.

Responsibilities

• Analyze root cause and resolve system incidents.
• Respond to tickets in operations queue per SLAs.
• Manage AWS infrastructure using CloudFormation, Terraform, and Ansible.
• Automate routine tasks with Python, Bash, PowerShell.
• Set up observability with CloudWatch, DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Ensure security best practices and compliance.
• Optimize AWS costs without sacrificing performance.
• Collaborate with customer DevOps teams and attend weekly meetings.

Skills

AWS CloudOps

CI/CD

Scripting

Security best practices

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS or related field

Tools

AWS CloudFormation

Terraform

Ansible

GitLab Runners

CloudWatch

DataDog

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK stack

Jira

Confluence

AWS CDK

Job description

Cloud DevOps Engineer

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 an experienced and proactive Cloud DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team. This fully remote position involves managing and optimizing AWS cloud infrastructure through tasks such as incident management, ticket resolution, automation of operational tasks using scripting languages, and configuration management using tools like CloudFormation, Terraform, and Ansible.

The Department of Interior (DOI) CHS III program is leading the way for Cloud Hosting and Applications Modernization across DOI and its subordinate bureaus. CHS III is facilitating the migration of legacy on-premises applications to a modern, secure and scalable multi-cloud platform. From sensors in active volcanic regions to earthquake detection data, CHS III is DOI's central cloud processing and data solution.

Work Location: Remote

What You Will Do:

• Participate in root cause analysis of system incidents.
• Respond to and resolve tickets in the operations support queue in a timely and efficient manner, ensuring issues are tracked, documented, and closed according to SLAs.
• Use tools such as AWS CloudFormation, GitLab and GitLab Runners to respond to support requests to manage and maintain AWS infrastructure, including EC2, RDS, S3, ELB, VPC, IAM Roles and Policies, Security Groups and related services.
• Automate routine operational tasks to improve system reliability, security monitoring and configuration management using AWS step functions, lambda functions, SSM documents, AWS EventBridge, SNS, SQS using scripting languages such as python, bash and powershell.
• Implement configuration management solutions (e.g., Ansible, Chef, or AWS Systems Manager).
• Set up and maintain observability tools (CloudWatch, DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, etc.) to monitor infrastructure and application performance.
• Ensure security best practices (IAM policies, encryption, VPC design, secrets management) and compliance with organizational standards.
• Analyze and optimize AWS cloud costs without compromising performance or scalability.
• Work cross-functionally with customer DevOps engineers, attend weekly team meetings and report status on open tickets and DevOps assignments.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and 5 years of professional experience, or a Master's degree and 3 years of professional experience, or a high school diploma/equivalent and 9 years of professional experience.
• U.S. Citizenship required; must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance; all work must be performed within the United States.

• Strong hands-on experience designing, deploying, and managing cloud-based solutions using core AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, CloudFormation, and IAM for secure and scalable infrastructure.
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, GitLab, GitLab Runners, or other third‑party tools to automate application deployments.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, or AWS CDK to automate cloud resource provisioning and configuration management.
• Experience with Python, Bash, AWS CLI, or other scripting languages to automate deployments, streamline workflows, troubleshoot issues, and resolve operational challenges within AWS environments.
• Candidate must have at least one of the following certifications or be able to attain within 90 Days: AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer - Associate, AWS Certified Developer - Associate, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional, AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate or Professional.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field strongly preferred.
• One or more AWS Speciality Certification(s) such as AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Speciality, AWS Certified Security - Speciality, AWS AI Fundamentals.
• Experience with incident management, root cause analysis, and resolving high-priority incidents in large, multi‑tenant environments using Jira, Confluence, etc.
• Exemplary communication, analytical skills, and technical knowledge across the client environment.
• Ability to produce concise and clear technical documentation.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Experience in leveraging AI tools to accelerate workflows and code generation, and for producing concise and clear technical AI‑assisted documentation.
• Experience with using or supporting applications such as Dremio, Tableau, Posit and/or Nebari.

Target Salary Range

$86,000 - $138,000. 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

Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including 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.