Senior DevOps Engineer: AWS, CI/CD & Security

Peraton; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 86,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental

Vision

Life insurance

HSA

401(k)

PTO

Company paid holidays

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, automate, secure, and support AWS cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for a VA-critical application. The role emphasizes infrastructure as code, containerization, and compliant releases.

The candidate will apply Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, and AWS services (EC2/ECS/ECR/S3) with a focus on security controls, VA authorization readiness, and cross-team collaboration across development, security, and operations to deliver reliable,

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years with BS/BA
• Minimum 6 years with MS/MA
• Minimum 3 years with PhD, 12 years with HS Diploma

Responsibilities

• Engineer and maintain 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.

Skills

AWS infrastructure

CI/CD

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

Linux administration

Security compliance

Scripting

Tools

AWS

EC2

ECS

ECR

S3

IAM

Job description

Peraton is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, automate, secure, and support AWS cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for a VA-critical application. The role emphasizes infrastructure as code, containerization, and compliant releases.

The candidate will apply Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, and AWS services (EC2/ECS/ECR/S3) with a focus on security controls, VA authorization readiness, and cross-team collaboration across development, security, and operations to deliver reliable,