Senior AI Platform Engineer - Bare-Metal, IaC, LLMs

Peraton; Oklahoma City (OK); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Senior AI Platform Engineer to stand up a bare-metal container platform and operate it within a security-conscious DoD environment.

You will drive transitions to IaC provisioning with Terraform and Ansible, manage OpenShift clusters, and support LLM deployment, model inference tuning, and observability. Occasional telework is allowed within a 50-mile radius of specified U.S. locations.

Qualifications

• Minimum years/degree experience as listed in qualifications.
• Experience deploying and operating Kubernetes-based platforms.
• Hands-on OpenShift on bare metal or similar enterprise Kubernetes.
• Proven IaC provisioning with Terraform and Ansible.
• Security/compliance under DoD frameworks and STIGs.

Responsibilities

• Stand up and operate a bare-metal container platform.
• Transition provisioning to IaC using Terraform and Ansible.
• Deploy and manage OpenShift clusters and core services.
• Support AI model deployment, inference optimization, and monitoring.
• Document platform architecture, licensing, and operational procedures.
• Assist with OCONUS bootstrap activities and hardware installation.

Skills

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Terraform

Ansible

Linux (RHEL)

DISA SIPR access

Terraform IaC

Cloud orchestration

VMware/Spectro Cloud

Networking/storage (CNI/CSI)

Documentation of architecture

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher

Tools

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Spectro Cloud/VMware

GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux)

Job description

Peraton is seeking a Senior AI Platform Engineer to stand up a bare-metal container platform and operate it within a security-conscious DoD environment.

You will drive transitions to IaC provisioning with Terraform and Ansible, manage OpenShift clusters, and support LLM deployment, model inference tuning, and observability. Occasional telework is allowed within a 50-mile radius of specified U.S. locations.