Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Peraton is a national security and enterprise IT company that delivers mission-critical solutions and technologies to government agencies and the U.S. armed forces. The Senior Platform Engineer/Application Enablement Lead will lead production application support across AWS environments, drive incident response and remediation, and build self-service onboarding and deployment tools. The role also focuses on platform engineering, CI/CD, observability, security, compliance, and technical leadership.
Responsibilities
- Serve as senior technical lead for production application support, driving detection, triage, mitigation, restoration, and executive-level communication during high-impact events
- Own emerging customer issues end to end, ensuring technical solutions are actioned, assigned with timelines, and driven to resolution
- Conduct blameless RCA and facilitate multi-stakeholder root-cause sessions, producing a roadmap for future changes and leading implementation
- Identify recurring application and platform issues and eliminate them through engineering rather than repeated manual response
- Build reusable Terraform modules and GitLab project and pipeline templates that let application teams provision namespaces, environments, and supporting AWS resources without filing a platform ticket
- Operate the self-service onboarding workflow covering repository creation, CI/CD wiring, quota and RBAC assignment, and security-gate enrollment
- Publish golden-path pipeline templates and paved-road patterns in GitLab so security scanning, compliance gates, and observability hooks are inherited automatically
- Maintain onboarding documentation and module catalogs, tracking onboarding lead time and self-service adoption to remove friction points raised by application teams
- Operate containerized workloads on OpenShift (ROSA) and Amazon EKS across AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud, including Spring Boot and other microservice deployments
- Engineer AWS environments (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, EBS, ELB/ALB/NLB, Route 53, CloudWatch, OpenSearch) with least-privilege IAM as a baseline
- Automate infrastructure with Terraform for AWS and cluster configuration, and with Ansible / Ansible Tower for configuration management and node hardening
- Operate GitLab CI/CD pipelines with reusable templates, feature flags, environment gating, and DORA metrics, and support migration of legacy Jenkins pipelines to GitLab
- Integrate SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets, and IaC scanning as required pipeline stages, with policy-driven gates that block insecure builds from promotion
- Operate observability across Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch, and OpenSearch, and instrument applications so every service ships with actionable alerts and a usable dashboard
- Enforce STIG, CIS, and organizational compliance across applications and pipelines, and support Aqua Security for image scanning, admission control, and runtime protection
- Support vulnerability management, ATO artifacts, audits, and continuous compliance reporting for FedRAMP and DoD-accredited boundaries
- Set engineering standards, review architecture, mentor engineers, and represent application support in cross-functional planning and change advisory forums
Skills
- Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust level clearance
- Bachelor's degree and 8 years of experience, or High School Diploma or equivalent and 12 years of experience
- 8+ years of hands-on AWS experience supporting platform engineering, application operations, networking, and security across AWS Commercial and GovCloud
- Strong experience with EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, EBS, ELB/ALB/NLB, Route 53, CloudWatch, OpenSearch, etc
- Observability experience with Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch, and/or OpenSearch
- Experience with Terraform and Ansible/Ansible Tower for infrastructure-as-code (IAC) and configuration management
- Hands-on experience leading production application support, including incident command, RCA facilitation, and driving corrective actions to closure
- Experience building self-service developer onboarding or platform-as-a-product capabilities using Terraform and GitLab
- Real-world experience establishing and maturing CI/CD toward progressive delivery
- Proven track record in senior technical or advisory roles, driving strategic change and digital adoption across business units
- Leadership presence and communication skills to work with customers at all levels and manage communication during critical incidents
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
- AWS Certified Security - Specialty
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
- HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
- Experience obtaining or maintaining an ATO in a FedRAMP High environment
Benefits
- Remote work allowed 100%
- Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.
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