Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Peraton is a national security company and enterprise IT provider delivering mission-critical solutions and technologies to government and defense customers. Peraton is seeking an Application Cloud Engineer to maintain, deploy, monitor, and secure AWS-based applications and infrastructure, while supporting container orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, disaster recovery, incident response, and 24/7 production operations.
Responsibilities
- Provision and manage AWS infrastructure using infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform
- Hands-on experience with Amazon EKS (cluster provisioning, upgrades, node groups management)
- Familiarity with EKS networking (VPC CNI, security groups for pods, ALB/NLB ingress controllers
- Kubectl proficiency and general Kubernetes object management (deployments, services, configmaps, secrets, RBAC)
- Monitor and troubleshoot production systems using AWS CloudWatch and other observability tools
- Collaborate with developers to containerize and deploy applications using ECS and Lambda
- Deploy applications across multiple environments (dev, staging, prod) and ensure consistency and stability
- Monitor deployments and system health using CloudWatch and other tools
- Troubleshoot and resolve deployment issues and improve pipeline performance and reliability
- Perform daily health checks using AWS CLI or scheduled Lambda scripts to check health and log/report results
- Collaborate with development team and DevOps teams to ensure applications are stateless and fault-tolerant
- Implement enhancements to containerized environments on ECS, focusing on scalability, performance and observability
- Enhance container orchestration strategies, including auto-scaling, rolling deployments and upgrades
- Support feature branch testing, merge request validation and artifact promotion workflows
- Ensure pipeline security and compliance through automated code scanning and approval gates
- Responsible for remediation of OS-level, container and dependent vulnerabilities
- Orchestrate failover and restoration of ECS/ EKS services, Lambda functions, databases and other infrastructure components
- Test and document regional failover playbooks and recovery runbooks
- Ensure compliance with RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective) requirements
- Diagnose and resolve production issues related to cloud services, container orchestration, databases and CI/CD pipelines
- Follow and improve incident response playbooks, escalation procedures and communication workflows
- Automate common operational tasks and improve alert accuracy to reduce on-call fatigue
- Log incidents, changes, and operational metrics in tracking systems
Skills
- Minimum of 8 years with BS/BA; Minimum of 6 years with MS/MA; Minimum of 3 years with PhD or 12 years of experience with HS Diploma/equivalent
- 3 years of IT experience
- Hands-on experience with AWS and cloud-based deployment strategies
- Familiarity with image registries like Amazon ECR and CI/CD pipelines for container deployment
- Proficient with Python, Bash, YAML/JSON, Node.js, Lambda functions
- Proficient in scripting languages like Python, Bash and Node.js
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (GibHub, GitLab, Kubernettes, DevOps, CI)
- Knowledge of disaster recovery planning and implementation
- AWS or relevant Cloud certifications (AWS DevOps Engineer, Solutions Architect Associate)
- Solid understanding of cloud architecture principles, autoscaling strategies and load balancing
- Proficient with monitoring, alerting and logging tools
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Must be a US Citizen
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
- Familiarity with container orchestration (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes)
- Knowledge of ITIL practice or incident management frameworks
Benefits
- Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.
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