Senior DevOps Engineer: AWS Cloud, CI/CD & Deployments

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

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.