Engineering & Operations Lead

Davita Inc.; Virginia; Remote; USD 112,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in national security is seeking an Engineering & Operations Lead to oversee cloud operations and engineering. This role requires extensive experience in cloud technologies, with a focus on leading teams and managing scalable cloud environments. The successful candidate will provide technical oversight and ensure high availability of services, working 100% remotely.

Qualifications

• 12 years of relevant experience or 10 years with a Master's degree.
• Five years preferred in cloud technologies, especially AWS.
• Experience in Infrastructure as Code tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead cloud engineering and operations team for deployment and maintenance.
• Provide technical guidance for cloud resource provisioning.
• Monitor and manage operations in cloud environments.

Skills

Cloud technologies

Infrastructure as Code

Python scripting

AWS

ServiceNow

Jira

Monitoring tools

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Cloud Formation

Terraform

SolarWinds

Splunk

Job description

Engineering & Operations Lead

Job Locations

US

Requisition ID

2025-155733

Position Category

Information Technology

Clearance

Public Trust

Responsibilities

Peraton is seeking a lead cloud engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be working 100% remote and will focus on cloud operations and engineering. A candidate in this position will work as part of an enterprise cloud services team and will lead the engineering and operations team and oversee the deployment of a scalable, secure, and resilient cloud environment. The candidate responsibilities will include managing of the team task priorities, providing technical guidance and solutions for provisioning of services and permissions, operational monitoring, and incident response. A candidate is expected to have broad experience across cloud infrastructure resources.

The candidate responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Leadership Role

Lead the cloud engineering and operations team for deployment, monitoring, and maintenance of cloud environments (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP)

• Understand the scope and manage the prioritization of ServiceNow requests, changes, and Jira tasks for provisioning, modifying, troubleshooting, and decommissioning cloud services
• Advise and enhance cloud team process improvements using cloud best practices and team standards
• Coordinate with team counterparts internal to the cloud services team and with peers leads (eg. OS, database, monitoring teams)
• Effective communication with leadership for status, issues, risks, and concerns, etc.

Technical Role

• Provide technical guidance and direction to cloud team on provisioning new resources and resolution of infrastructure issues
• Provide system monitoring and incident management for cloud environments
• Manage operations in cloud environments and ensure the high availability and performance of those environments
• Evaluate and operationalize cloud services, tools, and technologies
• Implement and manage identity and access management (IAM) policies and tools to control user permissions and access to cloud environments.
• Monitoring Cloud overall health and address/identify issues and address with cloud services team and/or cloud customers to resolve

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and 12 years of relevant experience, or Master's dregree with 10 years of experience.
• Five (5) years of experience preferred in cloud technologies including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or other public cloud services with an emphasis on AWS experience
• Experience in writing and deploying Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Cloud Formation, Terraform, CDK) to provision cloud infrastructure
• Two (2) years of experience preferred with Python or similar cloud scripting language.
• Experience with provisioning of cloud infrastructure resources and operational support of provisioned resources, as both an engineer and a team lead.
• Experience with Jira, ServiceNow, and similar toolsets for workflow management
• Experience with SolarWinds, Splunk, and similar tools for logging and monitoring
• Candidate must hold or be able to obtain Public Trust
• Candidate must be a US Citizen

Preferred Qualifications:

• One (1) cloud certification preferred at the associate level or higher in AWS
• Experience with a breadth of cloud infrastructure resources
• AWS/Cloud networking experience

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 based on experience and other factors.

EEO

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