Cloud Operations & Engineering Team Lead

Peraton; United States; Remote; USD 112,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Cloud Operations & Engineering Team Lead to provide technical leadership for a five-engineer team handling provisioning, operating, and maintaining AWS and Azure infrastructure across a large enterprise. The role is 100% remote with East Coast hours, and includes hands-on engineering along with leadership responsibilities.

The successful candidate will drive incident response, IaC deployments with Terraform, and automation, while guiding hiring, performance feedback, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 12+ years experience.
• Public Trust eligibility required.
• US Citizenship required.
• 5+ years in cloud tech including AWS and Azure, with emphasis on AWS.
• Experience operating AWS at multi-account enterprise scale.
• Technical leadership of 5+ engineers, with or without formal supervision.
• Hands-on experience managing AWS infrastructure across large account estates.
• Experience deploying infrastructure as code via CI/CD (Terraform); CloudFormation reading/troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day technical direction of cloud engineering and operations.
• Balance workload across the AWS multi-account estate and prioritize work items.
• Plan operational activities: patching, maintenance windows, cost optimization.
• Own on-call and escalation models, define severity and response paths.
• Drive improvements in monitoring, automation, and operational processes.
• Provide guidance on cloud best practices and team standards.
• Coordinate with Cloud Business Office and other tech teams.
• Communicate status, risks, and issues to leadership.

Skills

Cloud leadership

Hands-on AWS

CI/CD

Incident response

Cross-functional communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Python

Jira

ServiceNow

AWS IAM Identity Center

Entra ID

Job description

Responsibilities

Peraton is currently seeking skilled and qualified candidates for our Cloud Operations & Engineering Team Lead role to provide technical leadership for a team of five cloud engineers responsible for provisioning, operating, and maintaining the full breadth of infrastructure services across that estate. Peraton staff support a Cloud Business Office operating a large enterprise AWS environment - 500+ AWS accounts, along with a smaller Azure footprint - supporting a broad portfolio of enterprise workloads.

This is a team lead position, and it is a hands-on one. The person in this role sets team priorities, provides technical direction, and represents the team to stakeholders - while remaining personally in the environment doing the work. Expect roughly 50-60% hands-on engineering and operations, and 40-50% team leadership and coordination. This is not a role that directs from a distance.The lead does not carry formal supervisory authority, but does have input into hiring, interviews, and performance feedback.

This position is 100% remote, working East Coast hours. This is an operations role; support needs may arise outside standard business hours.

Day to Day Responsibilities:

• Lead the day-to-day technical direction of the cloud engineering and operations team, including workload balancing across the account estate
• Scope and prioritize ServiceNow requests and changes, and Jira tasks, for provisioning, modifying, troubleshooting, and decommissioning cloud services
• Plan operational support activities - managed service patching, maintenance windows, cost optimization support - with stakeholder engagement
• Manage the team's on-call and escalation model, including severity definitions and escalation paths
• Identify recurring operational pain points and toil, and drive improvements to monitoring, automation, and operational process
• Advise on and improve team processes using cloud best practices and established team standards
• Coordinate with counterparts across the Cloud Business Office and other technical teams
• Communicate status, issues, risks, and concerns effectively to leadership
• Contribute to hiring, interviews, and performance feedback for the team
• Performs incident management and troubleshooting in an operations environment including stakeholder engagement for issue resolution
• Manages operations in cloud environments and ensure the high availability and performance of those environment
• Serves in the on-call and escalation rotation alongside the team, and personally leads technical bridges for incidents
• Performs root cause analysis and writes post-incident reports
• Executes deployments using the provided Terraform modules and pipelines - running plans, applying changes, and troubleshooting failed runs and state issues across the account estate
• Reads, troubleshoots, and maintains existing CloudFormation stacks in legacy environments
• Provisions, configures, and operates infrastructure across a broad AWS service catalog, and grants and governs the permissions that allow application developers to work within their environments
• Manages full EC2 instance lifecycle: provisioning, resizing, AMI selection and refresh, snapshots, and replacement
• Provisions RDS instances and performs managed service patching and maintenance window planning
• Owns backup and recovery for provisioned resources using enterprise AWS Backup policies, including restore requests
• Administers AWS access management: authors IAM Identity Center permission sets and creates the group, account, and permission set assignments; manages the Entra ID groups that SCIM into AWS; maintains roles, policies, and permission boundaries at scale
• Builds operational automation using Python/boto3 and Lambda to eliminate recurring manual toil - for example, resource inventory and reporting, and monitoring automation
• Evaluates and operationalizes new cloud services, tools, and technologies

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree with 12+ years experience
• Candidate must hold or be able to obtain Public Trust
• Candidate must be a US Citizen
• Five (5) years of experience in cloud technologies including Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, with an emphasis on AWS
• Demonstrated experience operating AWS at multi-account enterprise scale (hundreds of accounts), including working knowledge of AWS Organizations structure, organizational units, and service control policies, and how landing zone constraints affect deployments and permissions
• Demonstrated technical leadership of five (5) or more engineers - setting priorities, providing technical direction, and coordinating with stakeholders - with or without formal supervisory authority
• Hands-on experience operating AWS infrastructure at enterprise scale - delivering consistent, repeatable configurations across a large account estate, managing resource lifecycle (patching, refresh, backup and recovery, decommissioning), and troubleshooting deployment and access failures within an established landing zone and guardrail structure
• Experience deploying and operating infrastructure as code through CI/CD pipelines (Terraform), with working knowledge of CloudFormation sufficient to read, troubleshoot, and maintain existing stacks
• Demonstrated experience in incident response and operational support in production enterprise environments

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS certification at the associate or professional level
• Experience in large enterprise AWS environments
• Experience with Python or a similar scripting language to build and maintain operational automation
• Experience with AWS IAM Identity Center and Entra ID integration via SCIM
• Experience with Azure PaaS services - App Service, Azure SQL and managed data services, Storage, Key Vault, Entra ID, and Azure Monitor - in an environment without IaaS compute or self-managed databases
• Familiarity with AWS networking at scale - Transit Gateway, VPC design, Route 53, PrivateLink, Direct Connect - sufficient to operate and troubleshoot within an established architecture
• Experience with Splunk, CloudWatch, SolarWinds, or similar logging and monitoring toolsets
• Experience with ServiceNow, Jira, or similar workflow management toolsets
• Experience supporting a migration from CloudFormation to Terraform

Peraton Overview

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.

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.

EEO

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