Senior Cloud Engineer – DoD/NGA Test Cloud (IaC)

Peraton; Springfield (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Heavily subsidized benefits

25 days PTO per year

Job summary

Peraton seeks a motivated Cloud Engineer to join the NGA Verification and Validation Division (TAV) on the Acadia program. You will support hosting and integration of testing tools within a cloud-based architecture to meet mission requirements, collaborating with a skilled team and customer.

The role emphasizes cloud design, automation, and test tooling in a DoD/IC environment, with opportunities to contribute to secure, scalable solutions in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Must hold a Top Secret clearance and upgrade to TS/SCI with polygraph if required.
• BS degree in Software Engineering, Math or related Engineering field.
• 5–10 years of cloud engineering or related experience.
• Knowledge of cloud computing, AWS, and Well Architected best practices.
• Experience with AWS services: CloudFormation, S3, IAM/NACL/ACL security features, RDS, DynamoDB, MongoDB, EC2.
• Experience administering enterprise IT infrastructure, OS, network services, user permissions, system security, backups, and troubleshooting.
• Strong written/oral communication for briefings, technical issue resolution, and test documentation.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team; willingness to learn and adapt.
• Experience in DoD or IC environments.
• Working knowledge of Agile (Scrum, Kanban).
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Java, JavaScript, or Go.
• Ability to coordinate with customers and software vendors to address test environment issues.
• Proficiency in Windows and Linux systems administration.
• Ability to analyze automated test output, scripts, and processes and provide recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Provide SME expertise in cloud solution design and architecture.
• Research, evaluate, and deploy advanced cloud computing systems and analytics for test and production environments.
• Maintain patches, updates, and new features for cloud assets.
• Support enterprise users, testers, stakeholders, and senior leadership.
• Manage deployment strategies for IaaS/PaaS/container technologies (Blue/Green, Canary, zero-downtime).
• Implement Infrastructure‑as‑Code (IaC) for configuration‑managed and repeatable deployments.
• Automate deployment and promotion cycles from development through production.
• Contribute as a key member of a collaborative, fast‑moving software development team.
• Conduct review of security findings and provide remediation via manual and automated execution.

Skills

Top Secret clearance

Cloud engineering

AWS knowledge

Python

Java

JavaScript

Go

Communication skills

DoD/IC environment experience

Agile (Scrum/Kanban)

Jira/Confluence/ServiceNow

Windows/Linux administration

Education

BS degree in Software Engineering, Math, or related field

Tools

Jira

Confluence

ServiceNow

OpenShift

Job description

Peraton seeks a motivated Cloud Engineer to join the NGA Verification and Validation Division (TAV) on the Acadia program. You will support hosting and integration of testing tools within a cloud-based architecture to meet mission requirements, collaborating with a skilled team and customer.

The role emphasizes cloud design, automation, and test tooling in a DoD/IC environment, with opportunities to contribute to secure, scalable solutions in a dynamic environment.