Remote Cloud DevOps Engineer - AWS, CI/CD, IaC

Peraton; Reston (VA); Remote; USD 86,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Cloud DevOps Engineer to join a fully remote team supporting the Department of Interior CHS III program. The role focuses on managing AWS cloud infrastructure, automating operations, and implementing configuration management and observability to ensure secure, scalable services.

Responsibilities include incident analysis, ticket resolution within SLAs, and cross-functional collaboration with customer DevOps engineers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or higher with required experience; US work authorization.
• US Citizenship and ability to obtain Public Trust clearance; work within the United States.
• Hands-on experience deploying and managing AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and IaC tools (CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, GitLab).
• One of the 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 queue per SLAs.
• Use CloudFormation, GitLab Runners to manage AWS infrastructure (EC2, RDS, S3, ELB, VPC, IAM).
• Automate routine tasks using Python, Bash, PowerShell to improve reliability and security.
• Implement configuration management (Ansible, Chef, or AWS Systems Manager).
• Set up observability with CloudWatch, DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack.

Skills

AWS

CI/CD pipelines

IaC

Python scripting

Public Trust clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

High school diploma/equivalent

Tools

GitLab

GitLab Runners

CloudFormation

Terraform

Ansible

AWS CDK

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Peraton is seeking a Cloud DevOps Engineer to join a fully remote team supporting the Department of Interior CHS III program. The role focuses on managing AWS cloud infrastructure, automating operations, and implementing configuration management and observability to ensure secure, scalable services.

Responsibilities include incident analysis, ticket resolution within SLAs, and cross-functional collaboration with customer DevOps engineers.