On-Site Senior Proxmox Cluster Engineer

Peraton; United States; On-site; USD 135,000 - 216,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on bonus

Job summary

Peraton Labs is hiring a Senior Proxmox Cluster Administrator to own day-to-day operations for a mission-critical Proxmox environment in a Multi-OS research setup. Role is hands-on, security-focused, and emphasizes automation maturity with Ansible and scripting.

The position is on-site at a Maryland customer site near College Park, requiring US citizenship with TS/SCI clearance. A sign-on bonus may apply during recruiting.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience with a Bachelor's degree or 16 years with no degree.
• Senior hands-on Linux infrastructure administration in production.
• Experience operating virtualization platforms at scale (Proxmox VE preferred).
• Automation using Ansible and scripting in Bash and/or Python.
• Cluster/HA concepts, networking, storage, and backup/restore.

Responsibilities

• Administer and sustain Proxmox VE clusters (HA, upgrades, capacity).
• Standardize VM/LXC provisioning.
• Lead incident response and complex troubleshooting.
• Manage Proxmox host networking (bridges, bonding, VLANs).
• Own backup/DR readiness and periodic restore validation.
• Maintain platform documentation and audit-ready artifacts.
• Onboard workloads with internal teams and government support.
• Develop automation to reduce toil (Ansible/Git workflows).

Skills

Linux administration

RHEL/Ubuntu

Proxmox VE

Ansible

Bash scripting

Python scripting

Networking

Storage

Incident response

Security/compliance

DevSecOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Master's degree in Computer Science or related

Ph.D. in Computer Science or related

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK/OpenSearch

Splunk

Job description

Peraton Labs is hiring a Senior Proxmox Cluster Administrator to own day-to-day operations for a mission-critical Proxmox environment in a Multi-OS research setup. Role is hands-on, security-focused, and emphasizes automation maturity with Ansible and scripting.

The position is on-site at a Maryland customer site near College Park, requiring US citizenship with TS/SCI clearance. A sign-on bonus may apply during recruiting.