Systems Engineering, Lead Associate

Peraton; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 80,000 - 128,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a mid-level Cloud Engineer to design and implement cloud solutions for government and industry projects in St. Louis, MO. The role focuses on ensuring optimal cloud performance, reliability, and compliance with security requirements.

The candidate should have a Bachelor's in a STEM field, 6+ years of cloud engineering experience, and the ability to obtain an SCI clearance with polygraph. Onsite work only.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/MIS or related STEM field.
• 6+ years of experience in government or industry cloud-based systems engineering.
• TS/SCI clearance or ability to obtain SCI and pass a polygraph.

Responsibilities

• Define engineering approaches for cloud design, implementation, and operation to ensure reliability across cloud infrastructure.
• Leverage IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS to deliver GEOINT solutions.
• Monitor cloud utilization and drive continuous process improvements.

Skills

Cloud engineering concepts

Security compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/MIS or related STEM

Tools

PowerShell

VBScript

AutoIT

Job description

Responsibilities

Mid‑Level Cloud Engineers define, implementation approaches and plans to ensure optimum cloud performance and reliability across the servers, networks, and related utilities and hardware that comprise the cloud infrastructure. They conduct analysis and make reliable engineering recommendations to ensure six sigma reliability/resiliency of the cloud infrastructure. They monitor and report on cloud utilization and plan continuous process improvement.

Duties include:

• Supports applying a systematic, engineering approach to the design, architecting, requirements elicitation, development, operation and use of cloud technologies and platforms for mission solutions.
• Leverages software‑, platform‑ and infrastructure‑as‑a‑service to deliver GEOINT solutions.
• Ensures optimum efficiencies for the utilization of cloud services.

Location: This position is 100% onsite in St. Louis, Missouri. Remote or hybrid work is not available.

Qualifications

Must have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program.
• 6+ years of working experience in government or industry supporting or leading cloud‑based systems engineering efforts.
• TS/SCI clearance adjudication or ability to obtain SCI and pass a polygraph.

Desired:

• One or more Cloud Certifications
  • AWS Certified
  • Cisco Certified Networking Administrator – Cloud
  • Cisco Certified Network Professional – Cloud
  • IBM Certified Cloud Solution Architect
  • MCSE Cloud Platform and Infrastructure
  • VMware Certified Professional (VCP7‑CMA)
• Citrix XenApp expertise or certification
• Experience in Scripting/automation via PowerShell, VBscript, AutoIT or the like
• SAN storage infrastructure experience (EMC in particular)
• Microsoft Clustering experience
• Microsoft SQL experience (installation, configuration, troubleshooting experience)

Compensation

$80,000 – $128,000. Salary depends on scope, responsibilities, experience, education, skills, competencies and geographic location.

EEO

Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.