Senior DevOps Engineer

Peraton; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, automate, secure, and support AWS cloud infrastructure and software delivery pipelines for a mission-critical VA application.

You will provide senior-level expertise in infrastructure as code, controlled deployments, system reliability, and production troubleshooting while collaborating with development, QA, security, and operations teams to ensure compliant, reliable releases.

Qualifications

• Minimum years of experience with BS/BA as per core requirements.
• Hands-on AWS infrastructure experience and an active AWS Associate-level certification.
• Linux server administration with scripting and patch management.
• Experience with AWS storage (S3/EBS), networking, load balancing, and Auto Scaling.
• Proficiency with Terraform, Ansible, and Jenkins for IaC and CI/CD.
• Ability to obtain VA Public Trust clearance; US citizen/GC residing in the US.
• Knowledge of security hardening, logging, backups, and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and maintain Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for builds, tests, security scans, containerization, and deployments.
• Manage releases across DEV, TEST, PREPROD, PROD environments with automated deployments and approvals.
• Provision and maintain AWS infrastructure and ECS services using CloudFormation and other IaC tools.
• Build, tag, and promote Docker images in ECR with traceability across environments.
• Automate Java/Maven and Node.js builds, dependency management, linting, caching, and security checks.
• Lead release controls, production deployments, and stakeholder communications.
• Diagnose and resolve pipeline, AWS, networking, IAM, and production issues; support DR planning.

Skills

AWS

Linux administration

CI/CD

Scripting

Security & compliance

Cloud networking

IAM & VPCs

Docker/ECR

Release management

Jenkins

Education

BS/BA

MS/MA

PhD

HS Diploma

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

CloudFormation

Docker

ECS

S3

IAM

Job description

Core Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years with BS/BA; Minimum of 6 years with MS/MA; Minimum of 3 years with PhD, 12 years with a HS Diploma
• Experience with hands-on AWS infrastructure experience
• Active AWS Associate-level certification and understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Hands-on administration of Linux servers (Ubuntu preferred), including scripting and automation of patching, backups, logging, key management, and system hardening.
• Experience with AWS storage (S3, EBS, incremental snapshots, and AMI management), cloud networking and connectivity, load balancing, and Auto Scaling.
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code and CI/CD tools, including Terraform, Ansible, and Jenkins.
• Ability to obtain a VA Public Trust clearance; U.S. Citizen, Green Card holder, residing in the United States for at least three years.

Key Responsibilities

• Engineer and maintain reusable Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for source validation, builds, automated testing, security scanning, containerization, artifact promotion, and deployment.
• Manage releases across DEV, DEV2, TEST, MVC, PREPROD, and PROD environments, using automated lower-environment deployments and controlled approvals for higher environments.
• Provision and maintain AWS infrastructure and Amazon ECS services using CloudFormation and other IaC tools, including IAM, VPCs, subnets, security groups, load balancers, target groups, resource sizing, and health checks.
• Build, tag, publish, and promote Docker images through Amazon ECR with artifact traceability and no unnecessary rebuilding between environments.
• Automate Java/Maven API and Node.js/npm application builds, dependency management, linting, caching, and security checks; integrate Amazon S3 and ECR with delivery workflows.
• Lead technical execution of release and change controls, production deployments, quality checks, maintenance windows, and stakeholder communications.
• Diagnose and resolve complex pipeline, AWS, networking, IAM, dependency, configuration, and production issues; support disaster recovery planning, testing, and ongoing environment management.

Security and Compliance

• Integrate AWS Inspector, GuardDuty, and dependency scanning into DevSecOps workflows; identify, assess and remediate vulnerabilities, threats and configuration risks.
• Implement system hardening using applicable STIGs and support security policies, procedures, and controls; review network and system configurations against security requirements.
• Support VA Authorization to Operate (ATO) activities, System Security Plans (SSPs), NIST/FISMA compliance, security control assessments, contingency planning, and continuous monitoring.

Additional Technical Qualifications

• Experience with AWS EC2, ECS, ECR, S3, EBS, EFS, ALB, CloudFront, CloudTrail, EventBridge, IAM, and cloud networking; familiarity with Kubernetes.
• Experience with web and application servers, load balancers, web application firewalls, and container deployments.
• Familiarity with Jira Cloud, Confluence, Slack, Agile practices, release governance, and change management.

Professional Competencies

• Communicates clearly with VA stakeholders, program and project managers, technical leads, architects, security teams, and application developers.
• Demonstrates independent problem-solving, sound judgment, risk management skills, organizational skills, attention to detail, and accountability for delivery.

Collaborates effectively across teams and adapts to changing priorities and technical requirements

Position Summary

The Senior DevOps Engineer designs, automates, secures, and supports AWS cloud infrastructure and software delivery pipelines for a mission-critical application supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The position provides senior-level technical expertise in infrastructure as code, CI/CD, controlled deployments, system reliability, production troubleshooting, and federal security compliance, while collaborating with development, quality assurance, security, and operations teams to deliver reliable, compliant releases.