Remote AWS Cloud Engineer — IaC & DevOps Specialist

Peraton; California; Hybrid; USD 104,000 - 166,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Life insurance

Health savings account

401(k) plan

PTO and paid holidays

Job summary

Peraton is seeking an AWS Cloud Engineer to join our team, delivering scalable, secure cloud infrastructure and automation across critical platforms.

The role emphasizes IaC (Terraform), CI/CD (GitLab CI), incident response, and collaboration with data engineers and security teams. This remote position offers the chance to influence architectures while working within a national security-focused environment.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship and ability to obtain Public Trust clearance.
• Bachelor's degree with extensive related experience or higher degrees.
• Deep knowledge of AWS, networking, security, serverless/microservices, and containers.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and GitLab CI/CD.
• Experience monitoring SaaS logs, scripting in Python and Bash, and automation.

Responsibilities

• Design and build AWS cloud infrastructure using IaC and CI/CD pipelines.
• Guide cloud solution patterns and architecture decisions with stakeholders.
• Own end-to-end automation from IaC to production operations.
• Participate in on-call rotation and observability practices.
• Provide technical support for AWS and managed services.
• Maintain secure, scalable, highly available cloud infra.
• Monitor environments and troubleshoot incidents.
• Collaborate with dev, security and infra teams following best practices.
• Maintain configuration docs, diagrams, and SOPs.
• Perform backups, upgrades during maintenance windows.
• Monitor for vulnerabilities and perform ad hoc upgrades.
• Support audits with logs and configurations.
• Manage IAM roles, policies, and access controls.

Skills

AWS cloud expertise

DevOps

Incident response

Automation mindset

Security best practices

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

High School Diploma or equivalent + 12 years experience

Tools

Terraform

GitLab CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

Bash

Ansible

CloudWatch

Grafana

Git

Job description

Peraton is seeking an AWS Cloud Engineer to join our team, delivering scalable, secure cloud infrastructure and automation across critical platforms.

The role emphasizes IaC (Terraform), CI/CD (GitLab CI), incident response, and collaboration with data engineers and security teams. This remote position offers the chance to influence architectures while working within a national security-focused environment.