Remote AWS Cloud DevOps Engineer | IaC & CI/CD

Peraton; Idaho; Remote; USD 86,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Cloud DevOps Engineer to join a fully remote team supporting the Department of Interior CHS III program. You will manage AWS infrastructure using CloudFormation, Terraform, and Ansible, while automating deployments via CI/CD pipelines and scripting. The role requires U.S.

Citizenship and ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance. Responsibilities include incident response, ticket management, cost optimization, and collaborating with cross-functional DevOps teams to ensure

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher with 3+ years of professional cloud experience.
• US Citizenship required; ability to obtain Public Trust clearance; work within the United States.
• Hands-on experience designing, deploying, and managing AWS cloud solutions (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines in AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild/CodeDeploy or GitLab pipelines.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, AWS CDK).
• Scripting skills in Python, Bash, or PowerShell for deployments and automation.
• One of the listed AWS certifications or ability to attain within 90 days.

Responsibilities

• Participate in root cause analysis of system incidents.
• Respond to and resolve tickets in the operations support queue per SLAs.
• Use CloudFormation, GitLab, and GitLab Runners to manage AWS infrastructure (EC2, RDS, S3, ELB, VPC, IAM).
• Automate routine tasks to improve reliability and security monitoring using AWS services and scripting languages.
• Implement configuration management via Ansible, Chef, or AWS Systems Manager.
• Set up observability tools (CloudWatch, DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
• Ensure security best practices and compliance across the environment.
• Analyze and optimize AWS cloud costs without sacrificing performance.
• Collaborate with customer DevOps engineers and report on status.

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

High school diploma or equivalent

Tools

AWS CloudFormation

Terraform

Ansible

AWS CDK

GitLab

GitLab Runners

Python

Bash

PowerShell

Job description

Peraton is seeking a Cloud DevOps Engineer to join a fully remote team supporting the Department of Interior CHS III program. You will manage AWS infrastructure using CloudFormation, Terraform, and Ansible, while automating deployments via CI/CD pipelines and scripting. The role requires U.S.

Citizenship and ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance. Responsibilities include incident response, ticket management, cost optimization, and collaborating with cross-functional DevOps teams to ensure