Senior Cloud & Hybrid Systems Admin SME (Remote)

Peraton; Chantilly (VA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking an experienced System Administrator – SME for cloud and hybrid computing to support the USGS OCIO. The role is remote, spanning on-premises data centers and multi-cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, and GCP.

The candidate will design, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure, perform zero-downtime upgrades, and lead data migrations with minimal downtime. Strong documentation and collaboration skills are essential.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship required; able to obtain Public Trust clearance.
• Experience in systems administration across hybrid IT environments (on-premises + cloud).
• Expertise with VMware virtualization and vCenter/ESXi; proficiency with vROPS and Log Insight.
• Hands-on AWS cloud services: EC2, S3, CloudFormation, and migration tooling.

Responsibilities

• Administer Windows Server and Linux/UNIX across enterprise hardware.
• Maintain and optimize VMware virtualization environments and monitoring tools.
• Lead cloud administration and optimization across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Oversee data migration from on-prem to cloud with minimal downtime.
• Manage NAS/SAN storage and enterprise backup/DR solutions.
• Advise on cloud/hybrid architectures and resource utilization.
• Ensure security patches and compliance with standards.
• Develop runbooks and maintain technical documentation.
• Collaborate using Jira/Confluence and Teams.

Skills

Hybrid IT

VMware vSphere

AWS Cloud

Windows Admin

Linux/UNIX Admin

Storage Management

Backup/DR

Multi-Cloud

IAM

Zero-Downtime

Documentation

Monitoring

DevOps Tools

Education

Bachelor's degree + 10 years

Master's degree + 8 years

Associate's degree + 12 years

High school diploma/equivalent + 14 years

Tools

VMware vCenter

vSphere (6.x/7.x/8.x)

vROPS

Log Insight

SCVMM

Datadog

CloudWatch

Jenkins

Ansible

Kubernetes

Confluence

Jira

Job description

Peraton is seeking an experienced System Administrator – SME for cloud and hybrid computing to support the USGS OCIO. The role is remote, spanning on-premises data centers and multi-cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, and GCP.

The candidate will design, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure, perform zero-downtime upgrades, and lead data migrations with minimal downtime. Strong documentation and collaboration skills are essential.