Cloud Network Automation Engineer

Peraton; Linthicum, Northern (MD, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton in the Baltimore area is seeking a Cloud Network Automation Engineer to advance secure, scalable IT infrastructure. You will manage Palo Alto Firewalls and Panorama across diverse networks and cloud environments, using CaC and Ansible to automate security configurations.

The role demands TS clearance with SCI eligibility, strong cybersecurity knowledge, and experience with IaC tooling, NIST 800-53 controls, and monitoring tools like Splunk/Grafana.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD with related field, or 4 extra years experience in lieu of degree.
• Active TS clearance with SCI eligibility and CompTIA Security+ certification.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provision, manage, and support Palo Alto Firewalls and Panorama across networks and cloud providers.
• Develop, utilize, and maintain Ansible Playbooks to secure and configure Palo Alto appliances.
• Manage connected services such as network adapters, storage, and firewalls.
• Deploy, configure, and support monitoring to detect anomalies or outages.
• Investigate incidents and provide root cause analyses with preventive actions.

Skills

TS clearance with SCI eligibility

CompTIA Security+

Strong communication

Ansible

Palo Alto Firewalls

Panorama

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in IT/Cybersecurity/CS/IS/Data Science/SE

Tools

CaC tooling

Ansible

Terraform

Palo Alto

Panorama

Splunk

Grafana

SolarWinds

GitHub

GitLab

Job description

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of experience; OR Master's degree with 6+ years of experience; OR PhD with 3+ years of experience. A degree within one of the following fields is highly desired: Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, or Software Engineering. In lieu of a degree, an additional 4 years of relevant experience may be considered.
• Active TS clearance with SCI eligibility.
• Active CompTIA Security+ certification.
• Strong oral and written communications skills.

Required Technical Qualifications:

• Expertise with Configuration as Code (CaC) tooling, Ansible preferred.
• Expertise managing Palo Alto firewalls disconnected environments.
• Expertise with network requirements and configuration of regulated environments, preferably within Department of War agencies.

Preferred Technical Qualifications:

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tooling, Terraform preferred.
• Experience managing secure computing environments to adhere with DISA STIGs and NIST 800-53 controls.
• Experience monitoring system uptime and performance with tools such as Splunk, Grafana, and SolarWinds.
• Experience providing detailed technical after-action reports with root cause analysis after outage or security incidents.
• Familiarity with host-level networking such as instance firewalls.
• Familiarity with source code management tooling such as GitHub or GitLab.

Overview:

As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted and highly differentiated national security solutions and technologies that keep people safe and secure. Peraton serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies across the intelligence, space, cyber, defense, civilian, health, and state and local markets. Peraton is seeking a Cloud Network Automation Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals.

What you will do:

• Provision, manage, and support Palo Alto Firewalls and Panorama servers across several internet-connected and internet-disconnected networks and Cloud Service Providers.
• Develop, utilize, and maintain Ansible Playbooks to secure, patch, and configure Palo Alto appliances.
• Manage and configure connected services such as network adapters, storage, and firewalls.
• Deploy, configure, and support monitoring capabilities to detect anomalous conditions or service disruptions.
• Investigate service disruptions and provide root cause analysis reports and implement additional steps to prevent subsequent issues.

*This position requires full-time, onsite attendance Monday through Friday in the Baltimore metropolitan area.