Senior AWS Cloud DevOps Engineer | Public Trust Clearance

Peraton; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 112,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k)

PTO and holidays

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a highly motivated Cloud DevOps Engineer with AWS expertise to drive automated deployment, security, and monitoring across mission-critical environments.

Ideal candidates bring deep AWS knowledge, strong CI/CD capabilities with Jenkins, and IaC experience using Terraform and CloudFormation. A public trust clearance is required and after-hours support may be required.

Qualifications

• U.S. citizen with active public trust clearance.
• Minimum 12 years with BS/BA; 10 years with MS/MA; 7 years with PhD.
• Deep AWS experience covering EC2, S3, RDS, CloudWatch and IAM.
• Proficient in Jenkins CI/CD, Terraform, CloudFormation and Ansible.

Responsibilities

• Automate, provision, and monitor CI/CD using AWS and cloud tools.
• Provide hands-on support for mission-critical deployments.
• Implement cloud security, data protection, and monitoring.
• Participate in after-hours pager duty with no travel.

Skills

AWS Cloud

Jenkins CI/CD

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Linux Bash

Security & Compliance

VPC Networking

DevOps Automation

Education

BS/BA in a related field

MS/MA

PhD

Tools

Jenkins

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

EC2

S3

ECS/EKS

CloudWatch

Job description

Peraton is seeking a highly motivated Cloud DevOps Engineer with AWS expertise to drive automated deployment, security, and monitoring across mission-critical environments.

Ideal candidates bring deep AWS knowledge, strong CI/CD capabilities with Jenkins, and IaC experience using Terraform and CloudFormation. A public trust clearance is required and after-hours support may be required.