Senior Cloud & Hybrid Systems Administrator (Remote)

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

Job summary

Peraton is seeking an experienced System Administrator – SME to support the USGS OCIO in a cloud and hybrid environment. This remote, senior role covers on-prem data centers and multi-cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) with emphasis on security, performance, and modernization across Windows and Linux systems.

You will lead migrations, design architectures, monitor operations, and advise leaders on workload placement while ensuring zero-downtime upgrades and robust disaster recovery capabilities

Qualifications

• US citizenship and ability to obtain Public Trust clearance
• 10+ years in hybrid IT systems administration
• Experience with VMware vCenter, ESXi, vROPS, and Log Insight
• Hands-on AWS (EC2, S3, CloudFormation) and migration tooling
• Windows Server 2016/2019/2022 and Linux (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu) administration
• Enterprise NAS/SAN storage experience
• Knowledge of Backup-to-Cloud and DR strategies
• Familiar with AWS, Azure, GCP and multi-cloud workload placement
• Active Directory, Group Policy, PKI, IAM
• Zero-downtime upgrades and migrations
• Strong communication and technical writing

Responsibilities

• Administer Windows and Linux OS across data centers
• Manage VMware virtualization and performance tools
• Administer AWS environments and cloud architectures
• Lead data migration from on-prem to cloud with minimal downtime
• Manage NAS/SAN storage and backup/DR solutions
• Advise on cloud architectures and hybrid strategies
• Apply security patches and ensure compliance
• Design observability dashboards with vROPS, CloudWatch, Datadog
• Support CI/CD and IaC tooling like Kubernetes, Jenkins, Ansible
• Maintain architecture diagrams and runbooks; collaborate via Jira/Confluence

Skills

Hybrid IT environments

Cloud administration

VMware vSphere

AWS cloud services

Windows & Linux admin

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

vROPS

Log Insight

SCVMM

Datadog

CloudWatch

Jenkins

Ansible

Job description

Peraton is seeking an experienced System Administrator – SME to support the USGS OCIO in a cloud and hybrid environment. This remote, senior role covers on-prem data centers and multi-cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) with emphasis on security, performance, and modernization across Windows and Linux systems.

You will lead migrations, design architectures, monitor operations, and advise leaders on workload placement while ensuring zero-downtime upgrades and robust disaster recovery capabilities