Remote Lead Cloud Architect: AWS GovCloud

Peraton; United States; On-site; USD 112,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton seeks an experienced Lead Cloud Architect to own the reliability and architecture of production systems across AWS Commercial, AWS GovCloud, Azure, and GCP. The role demands hands-on leadership in ROSA/OpenShift, CI/CD, and incident response to ensure scalable, secure cloud solutions.

You will mentor junior engineers and collaborate with security, platform, and application teams to meet reliability and regulatory requirements. Remote work with EST hours is expected.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizen with ability to obtain and maintain required Public Trust clearance.
• Bachelor's Degree and 12 years of experience, or Master's and 10 years, or HS diploma/equivalent with 16 years of experience.
• 7+ years hands-on experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, or production systems engineering.
• Extensive hands-on experience operating in AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud, including OpenShift (ROSA) or comparable Kubernetes-based platforms
• Deep infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform and Ansible / Ansible Tower.
• Advanced proficiency of GitLab and Jenkins CI/CD platforms, including reliability gating and deployment automation.
• Deep experience in Linux and Windows Server administration
• Experience with enterprise observability tools such as Dynatrace, Datadog, Splunk and Open Telemetry
• Ownership of an SLI/SLO and alerting program, including error budgets, alert rationalization, and noise reduction.
• Extensive scripting/automation proficiency in Python, Bash, PowerShell, or Go
• Experience operating in federal or regulated environments (FISMA, FedRAMP, NIST 800-53).

Responsibilities

• Own the reliability, availability, performance, and operational health of critical infrastructure services and applications, driving continuous improvement throughout their lifecycle.
• Lead complex production incidents and service recovery efforts, providing technical direction during high-impact events and driving thorough root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Define and continuously improve reliability objectives, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, service health metrics, and operational standards for infrastructure services and applications.
• Lead observability strategy in partnership with application teams, defining meaningful metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts and ensuring they are integrated into the organization's observability capabilities.
• Lead the operational lifecycle of deployed services, including releases, upgrades, patching, configuration changes, capacity management, maintenance, and technology refreshes.
• Identify and drive the resolution of systemic reliability risks, recurring failure modes, capacity constraints, technical debt, and other sources of operational risk.
• Design and lead resilience and recovery initiatives, including failure-mode analysis, performance and capacity testing, disaster recovery, backup and failover strategies, and recovery validation.
• Develop and advance automation and everything-as-code practices to improve consistency, reliability, deployment, recovery, and overall operational efficiency.
• Partner with Platform Engineering and application teams on architecture and design, defining operational and reliability requirements and influencing platform capabilities and application architectures.
• Mentor junior Cloud Architects and provide technical leadership by establishing best practices, improving operational processes, and advancing the organization's overall reliability engineering maturity.

Skills

Cloud engineering

DevOps

OpenShift ROSA

Terraform

Ansible

GitLab CI/CD

Jenkins

Python

PowerShell

Linux

Windows Server

NIST 800-53

Education

Bachelor's Degree or higher

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitLab

Jenkins

Dynatrace

Datadog

Splunk

OpenTelemetry

ROSA/OpenShift

Job description

Peraton seeks an experienced Lead Cloud Architect to own the reliability and architecture of production systems across AWS Commercial, AWS GovCloud, Azure, and GCP. The role demands hands-on leadership in ROSA/OpenShift, CI/CD, and incident response to ensure scalable, secure cloud solutions.

You will mentor junior engineers and collaborate with security, platform, and application teams to meet reliability and regulatory requirements. Remote work with EST hours is expected.