Remote AWS Cloud Engineer - Terraform & CI/CD Expert

Peraton; Belcamp (MD); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a motivated AWS Cloud Engineer to join our team remotely, ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability of cloud platforms supporting data-driven decision-making.

You will provide day-to-day customer application support, maintain infrastructure, monitor systems, resolve incidents, and implement automation to improve operational efficiency. Collaboration with data engineers and cross-functional teams is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or higher with the specified experience requirements.
• Deep experience with AWS architecture, networking and security.
• Experience with IaC and Terraform.
• Experience designing GitLab CI/CD pipelines and SaaS logs.
• Strong scripting in Python and Bash; Ansible a plus.
• Cloud engineering processes using automation tooling for AWS workloads.

Responsibilities

• Design and build AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform and GitLab CI.
• Guide ADTs on cloud solution patterns, deployment strategies, and architecture decisions.
• Own automation end-to-end from IaC authorship to pipeline design to production operations.
• Participate in on-call rotation and contribute to observability practices.
• Provide technical support to AWS and managed service users.
• Design, deploy, and maintain secure, scalable, and highly available AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Monitor AWS environments, identify performance issues, and troubleshoot incidents.
• Collaborate with development, security, and infra teams to improve reliability and follow AWS best practices.
• Maintain configuration documentation, diagrams and SOPs for all environments.
• Perform backups, upgrades and maintenance during maintenance windows.
• Monitor for security vulnerabilities and perform ad-hoc upgrades as required.
• Support audit activities by providing logs, reports, and system configurations.
• Manage and support AWS IAM, including roles, policies, permissions, and access controls.

Skills

AWS architecture

Networking (VPCs, routing)

Security (IAM, encryption)

Serverless/microservice architectures

Containerization (ECS, Docker, Kubern\

Education

Bachelor's degree with 8 years experience

Master's degree with 6 years experience

High School diploma or equivalent with 12 years experience

Tools

Terraform

GitLab CI

ECS

Docker

Kubernetes

CloudWatch

Grafana

Ansible

PowerShell

Bash

JavaScript/Node.js

Job description

Peraton is seeking a motivated AWS Cloud Engineer to join our team remotely, ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability of cloud platforms supporting data-driven decision-making.

You will provide day-to-day customer application support, maintain infrastructure, monitor systems, resolve incidents, and implement automation to improve operational efficiency. Collaboration with data engineers and cross-functional teams is essential.