Remote AWS Cloud Engineer - Terraform & GitLab CI/CD

Peraton; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work option

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a motivated AWS Cloud Engineer to ensure performance, reliability, and scalability of data-driven platforms across the organization. You will provide day-to-day customer application support, maintain infrastructure, monitor systems, and implement automation to improve operational efficiency.

You will collaborate with data engineers, analysts, and cross-functional teams to troubleshoot issues and deliver secure, scalable AWS solutions while following best practices.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship required with ability to obtain Public Trust clearance.
• Pre-employment credit check may be required per Customer.
• Bachelor's/ Master’s or HS diploma with corresponding experience levels.
• Deep knowledge of AWS architecture, networking (VPCs, routing), security (IAM/Resource Policies, encryption), serverless/microservices, and containerization (ECS, Docker, Kubernetes).
• Proficiency with Terraform IaC and advanced skills.
• Experience designing and maintaining GitLab CI/CD pipelines for enterprise delivery.
• Hands-on experience monitoring, analyzing, and troubleshooting SaaS logs.
• Strong scripting: Python and Bash; Ansible is a plus.
• Proficiency in configuration management, observability (CloudWatch, Grafana), reliability and DR; cloud engineering automation (Terraform, Python, GitLab CI) for AWS.
• Strong Git proficiency and branching strategies.

Responsibilities

• Design and build AWS cloud infrastructure using IaC (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI).
• Guide ADTs on cloud solution patterns, deployment strategies, and architecture decisions; influence design choices.
• Own automation end-to-end from IaC authorship to pipeline design to production operations.
• Participate in on-call rotation and contribute to observability/monitoring practices.
• Provide technical support and guidance to AWS and managed service users.
• Design, deploy, and maintain secure, scalable, highly available AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Monitor AWS environments and troubleshoot incidents.
• Collaborate with development, security and infra teams to implement cloud solutions and follow AWS best practices.
• Maintain configuration docs, 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 with logs, reports and configs.
• Manage AWS IAM roles, policies, permissions and access controls.

Skills

AWS architecture

Networking (VPC/routing)

Security IAM & Policies

Serverless/microservices

Containerization (ECS Docker K8s)

Terraform IaC

GitLab CI/CD

SaaS logs monitoring

Python

Bash

Ansible

Observability (CloudWatch Grafana)

Automation tooling (Terraform, Python,

Git proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree + 8 years experience

Master's degree + 6 years experience

High School Diploma or equivalent + 12 years experience

Tools

CloudFormation

PowerShell

JavaScript/Node.js

Job description

Peraton is seeking a motivated AWS Cloud Engineer to ensure performance, reliability, and scalability of data-driven platforms across the organization. You will provide day-to-day customer application support, maintain infrastructure, monitor systems, and implement automation to improve operational efficiency.

You will collaborate with data engineers, analysts, and cross-functional teams to troubleshoot issues and deliver secure, scalable AWS solutions while following best practices.