Senior Cloud SRE & IaC Architect

Peraton; Annapolis (MD); On-site; USD 176,000 - 282,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days PTO

Attractive bonus plan

Subsidized employee benefits

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a senior cloud/DevOps professional in Annapolis, MD to migrate on‑premise systems to AWS, design and manage AWS infrastructure, and implement IaC with Terraform and Ansible. The role requires active TS/SCI clearance and cloud certifications, with a focus on reliability, security, and automation in a national security program.

The candidate will drive improvements in cloud architecture, collaborate across engineering, security, and operations, and contribute to SRE practices

Qualifications

• 16+ years of software development/engineering experience including requirements analysis, development, deployment, maintenance, testing, and problem diagnosis/resolution.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field; Master’s degree or equivalent experience is acceptable.
• Active TS/SCI security clearance with current polygraph.
• Cloud certifications such as AWS Certified Developer/Architect/Professional, CKAD, Elastic Certified Engineer or similar are required.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support migration of on-premise hardware to AWS cloud (WANDS).
• Design, deploy, and manage AWS infrastructure (EC2, VPCs, networking, IAM).
• Implement IaC using Terraform and Ansible for scalable deployments.
• Apply AWS Well-Architected Framework across all pillars.
• Perform SRE functions including automation, hardening, resilience.
• Design and implement monitoring, logging, and alerting for availability and performance.
• Collaborate with engineering, security, and operations to reduce toil.
• Drive continuous improvements in cloud architecture and operations.

Skills

16+ years experience

TS/SCI clearance

Education

Bachelor's Degree in CS or related field

Master's/equivalent experience

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Elastic Observability

Job description

Peraton is seeking a senior cloud/DevOps professional in Annapolis, MD to migrate on‑premise systems to AWS, design and manage AWS infrastructure, and implement IaC with Terraform and Ansible. The role requires active TS/SCI clearance and cloud certifications, with a focus on reliability, security, and automation in a national security program.

The candidate will drive improvements in cloud architecture, collaborate across engineering, security, and operations, and contribute to SRE practices