Cloud DevOps Engineer at Peraton, Remote
Cloud DevOps Engineer at Peraton, remote. Est. up to $200k. Apply with swipeandhired.
Job Locations
US
Requisition ID
2026-173174
Position Category
Information Technology
Clearance
Public Trust
Peraton Overview
Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.
Responsibilities
Peraton is seeking an experienced and proactive Cloud DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team. This fully remote position involves managing and optimizing AWS cloud infrastructure through tasks such as incident management, ticket resolution, automation of operational tasks using scripting languages, and configuration management using tools like CloudFormation, Terraform, and Ansible.
The Department of Interior (DOI) CHS III program is leading the way for Cloud Hosting and Applications Modernization across DOI and its subordinate bureaus. CHS III is facilitating the migration of legacy on-premises applications to a modern, secure and scalable multi-cloud platform. From sensors in active volcanic regions to earthquake detection data, CHS III is DOI's central cloud processing and data solution.
Work Location: Remote
What You Will Do :
- Participate in root cause analysis of system incidents.
- Respond to and resolve tickets in the operations support queue in a timely and efficient manner, ensuring issues are tracked, documented, and closed according to SLAs.
- Use tools such as AWS CloudFormation, GitLab and GitLab Runners to respond to support requests to manage and maintain AWS infrastructure, including EC2, RDS, S3, ELB, VPC, IAM Roles and Policies, Security Groups and related services.
- Automate routine operational tasks to improve system reliability, security monitoring and configuration management using AWS step functions, lambda functions, SSM documents, AWS EventBridge , SNS, SQS using scripting languages such as python, bash and powershell .
- Implement configuration management solutions (e.g., Ansible, Chef, or AWS Systems Manager).
- Set up and maintain observability tools (CloudWatch, DataDog , Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, etc.) to monitor infrastructure and application performance.
- Ensure security best practices (IAM policies, encryption, VPC design, secrets management) and compliance with organizational standards.
- Analyze and optimize AWS cloud costs without compromising performance or scalability.
- Work cross-functionally with customer DevOps engineers, attend weekly team meetings and report status on open tickets and DevOps assignments.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of professional experience, or a Master’s degree and 3 years of professional experience, or a high school diploma/equivalent and 9 years of professional experience.
- U.S. Citizenship required; must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance; all work must be performed within the United States.
- Strong hands-on experience designing, deploying, and managing cloud-based solutions using core AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, CloudFormation, and IAM for secure and scalable infrastructure.
- Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline , CodeBuild , CodeDeploy , GitLab, GitLab Runners, or other third-party tools to automate application deployments.
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