Cloud Engineer

Peraton; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 128,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense contractor is looking for a Cloud Engineer to enhance government multi-cloud environments. Responsibilities include managing Azure and AWS services, resolving incidents, and ensuring system stability. Ideal candidates will have substantial experience and certifications in cloud services, along with excellent communication skills.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in systems analysis focused on Azure and AWS services.
• Required Certification: Azure Administrator Associate or AWS Cloud Practitioner.
• US Citizenship required with the ability to obtain a clearance.

Responsibilities

• Serve as Tier 2 support for complex Azure and AWS incidents.
• Continuously monitor cloud environments for performance issues.
• Manage and maintain cloud infrastructure securely and efficiently.

Skills

Incident Management

Root Cause Analysis

AWS Services

Azure Services

Technical Documentation

Communication

Analytical Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Azure DevOps

PowerShell

Terraform

Job description

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About Peraton

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.

About Peraton

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.

Program Overview

Peraton supports development, modernization, and migration in support of a government multi-cloud environment with 50+ customer tenants and growing.

About The Role

Peraton is looking for a Cloud Engineer to support development, modernization, and migration in support of a government multi-cloud environment with 50+ customer tenants and growing. Aside from technical qualifications, applicant should have effective communication skills, both written and verbal.

The applicant must have engineering experience and extensive AWS and Azure knowledge and experience with integration, system analysis or programming experience, including developing AWS and Azure systems requirements and design specification. The Cloud Engineer will be responsible for resolving complex incidents, providing expert troubleshooting, and performing proactive monitoring of AWS and Azure Infrastructure and services. A passion for performance, strong desire for quality conformance, and attention to detail are prerequisites for this position.

Key Responsibilities:

Incident Response and Troubleshooting

• Serve as Tier 2 support for complex incidents and outages within the Azure and AWS GovCloud environment
• Investigate and resolve issues across various AWS services EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, Lambda, and IAM
• Investigate and resolve issues across various Azure services such as Azure VMs, Azure AD, Azure Networking, Azure App Services, Identity Management, Storage, and Databases
• Perform root cause analysis to address underlying infrastructure issues and provide solutions to prevent recurrence.
• Manage and resolve high-priority incidents, ensuring timely communication with stakeholders and affected tenants
  
  

Monitoring and Optimization

• Continuously monitor tenant environments using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and other tools (Dynatrace, Splunk) to detect performance issues, security incidents, and infrastructure bottlenecks
• Utilize Dynatrace, Splunk, or other proactive monitoring tools to mitigate potential issues before they escalate
• Analyze system performance and recommend optimizations to improve stability, efficiency, and security
  
  

AWS Infrastructure Management

• Manage and maintain the AWS infrastructure, including EC2 instances, S3 buckets, VPC configurations, RDS databases, and other services
• Ensure that all tenants' s AWS resources are secure, FedRAMP compliant, and optimized for performance
• Collaborate with the Architecture team to implement solutions that align with best practices for AWS cloud infrastructure
• Adhere to Change Management procedures
  
  

Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing

• Manage intake for assignment of newly created incidents
• As a team lead, work with Service Delivery Manager and support ISR Product owner to help work to improve overall team metrics (JIRA/ServiceNow)
• Collaborate with Tier 2 engineers to resolve incidents and implement improvements
• Document incident response procedures, resolutions, and lessons learned to enhance team knowledge and preparedness for future incidents
  
  

LOCATION: Remote (but must reside and perform all work within the United States)

WORK HOURS: This position requires working online from 8:00 AM Eastern to 5:00 PM Eastern

Qualifications

Required Skills:

• 5+ years of integration and systems analysis experience focused on Azure and AWS cloud services and infrastructure
• Bachelors Degree and 5 years experience or Associate's degree and 7 years experience or HS Diploma and 9 years experience
• 3+ years of extensive hands-on experience with a wide range of AWS and Azure services
• Required Certification: Azure Administrator Associate or AWS Cloud Practitioner
• Experience with incident management, root cause analysis, and resolving high-priority incidents in large, multi-tenant environments
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of AWS and Azure GovCloud and deploying in Government environments.
• Exemplary communication, analytical skills, and technical knowledge across the client environment.
• Ability to produce concise and clear technical documentation.
• US Citizenship required with the ability to obtain a clearance.
  
  

Preferred Skills:

• Familiarity with Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using ARM templates or Terraform
• Experience with PowerShell, Azure CLI, or other automation scripts to troubleshoot and resolve issues
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert
  
  

SCA / Union / Intern Rate or Range

Details

Target Salary Range: $80,000 - $128,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

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

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Civil Engineering

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