Cloud Engineer

Peraton; Springfield (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Heavily subsidized benefits

25 days PTO per year

Job summary

Peraton seeks a motivated Cloud Engineer to join the NGA Verification and Validation Division (TAV) on the Acadia program. You will support hosting and integration of testing tools within a cloud-based architecture to meet mission requirements, collaborating with a skilled team and customer.

The role emphasizes cloud design, automation, and test tooling in a DoD/IC environment, with opportunities to contribute to secure, scalable solutions in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Must hold a Top Secret clearance and upgrade to TS/SCI with polygraph if required.
• BS degree in Software Engineering, Math or related Engineering field.
• 5–10 years of cloud engineering or related experience.
• Knowledge of cloud computing, AWS, and Well Architected best practices.
• Experience with AWS services: CloudFormation, S3, IAM/NACL/ACL security features, RDS, DynamoDB, MongoDB, EC2.
• Experience administering enterprise IT infrastructure, OS, network services, user permissions, system security, backups, and troubleshooting.
• Strong written/oral communication for briefings, technical issue resolution, and test documentation.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team; willingness to learn and adapt.
• Experience in DoD or IC environments.
• Working knowledge of Agile (Scrum, Kanban).
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Java, JavaScript, or Go.
• Ability to coordinate with customers and software vendors to address test environment issues.
• Proficiency in Windows and Linux systems administration.
• Ability to analyze automated test output, scripts, and processes and provide recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Provide SME expertise in cloud solution design and architecture.
• Research, evaluate, and deploy advanced cloud computing systems and analytics for test and production environments.
• Maintain patches, updates, and new features for cloud assets.
• Support enterprise users, testers, stakeholders, and senior leadership.
• Manage deployment strategies for IaaS/PaaS/container technologies (Blue/Green, Canary, zero-downtime).
• Implement Infrastructure‑as‑Code (IaC) for configuration‑managed and repeatable deployments.
• Automate deployment and promotion cycles from development through production.
• Contribute as a key member of a collaborative, fast‑moving software development team.
• Conduct review of security findings and provide remediation via manual and automated execution.

Skills

Top Secret clearance

Cloud engineering

AWS knowledge

Python

Java

JavaScript

Go

Communication skills

DoD/IC environment experience

Agile (Scrum/Kanban)

Jira/Confluence/ServiceNow

Windows/Linux administration

Education

BS degree in Software Engineering, Math, or related field

Tools

Jira

Confluence

ServiceNow

OpenShift

Job description

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and eligible to participate in an attractive bonus plan.

Required Experience/Education

• Must possess a Top Secret clearance and be willing to upgrade to TS/SCI and successfully complete a polygraph within 30 days of employment or at the customer's request (contract requires TS/SCI with polygraph).
• BS degree in Software Engineering, Math, or related Engineering field.
• 5–10 years of cloud engineering or related experience.
• Knowledge of cloud computing, AWS, and Well Architected best practices.
• Experience with AWS technologies: CloudFormation, S3, IAM/NACL/ACL security features, RDS, DynamoDB, MongoDB, EC2.
• Experience administering enterprise IT infrastructure, operating systems, network services, user permissions, system security, backups, and troubleshooting.
• Strong written/oral communication skills for briefings, technical issue resolution, and test documentation.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team; willingness to learn and adapt.
• Experience in DoD or IC environments.
• Working knowledge of Agile (Scrum, Kanban).
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Java, JavaScript, or Go.
• Ability to coordinate with customers and software vendors to address test environment issues.
• Proficiency in Windows and Linux systems administration.
• Ability to analyze automated test output, scripts, and processes and provide recommendations.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with NGA UC/UC2S and TC/C2S environments.
• DevSecOps experience including CI/CD and related technologies.
• Experience with OpenShift and container frameworks.
• Experience in information extraction, analysis techniques, data mining, and machine learning.
• Ability to develop and integrate loosely coupled APIs.
• Database design and maintenance experience (Oracle, PostgreSQL, etc.) for test related applications.
• Ability to develop tools for UI/API functional testing, automation, monitoring, load/performance testing, and profiling.
• Ability to automate tasks via scripting or identifying open source/commercial tools.
• Experience with test management processes, release cycles, and documentation.
• GEOINT and TCPED workflow knowledge.
• Experience working in enterprise test environments.

Seeking a motivated CLOUD ENGINEER to support the NGA Verification and Validation Division (TAV) on the Acadia program. Join a skilled, highly respected and long-standing team supporting the quality mission for NGA. This is a unique opportunity to enhance your career by working with the community subject matter experts, directly with the customer, and with an experienced software team. The successful candidate will work as a cloud engineer tasked with supporting the hosting and integration of testing tools into a cloud-based architecture to meet the mission of the TAV division.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide SME expertise in cloud solution design and architecture.
• Research, evaluate, and deploy advanced cloud computing systems and analytics for test and production environments.
• Maintain patches, updates, and new features for cloud assets.
• Support enterprise users, testers, stakeholders, and senior leadership.
• Manage deployment strategies for IaaS/PaaS/container technologies (Blue/Green, Canary, zero‑downtime).
• Implement Infrastructure‑as‑Code (IaC) for configuration‑managed and repeatable deployments.
• Automate deployment and promotion cycles from development through production.
• Contribute as a key member of a collaborative, fast‑moving software development team.
• Conduct review of security findings and provide remediation via manual and automated execution.

Location

This position is 100% onsite in Springfield, Virginia. Remote or hybrid work is not available.