Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Peraton is a national security company and enterprise IT provider supporting government agencies and defense missions. The Senior AWS Cloud Engineer / Cloud Implementation Lead will lead hands-on AWS cloud implementation, governance, modernization, security, and operational activities, while helping develop scalable multi-cloud capabilities that meet FedRAMP Moderate requirements.
Responsibilities
- Lead day-to-day technical implementation of AWS-based cloud operations and deployment of applications and the MVP
- Provision and configure compute, storage, database, and other services using Infrastructure as Code (AWS CloudFormation and Terraform)
- Develop and maintain pipeline automation for application and infrastructure deployments
- Design and package applications using modern containerization and orchestration tooling
- Configure logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting, applying SRE practices
- Produce cost-and-capacity reports using FinOps tooling
- Produce well-structured design documents, diagrams, and hand-over guides
- Create, manage, and optimize AWS cloud environments and resources (e.g., security groups, VPCs, IAM roles)
- Support AWS implementation using services such as S3, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Config, Security Hub, IAM, KMS, ECS/Fargate, Athena/Glue, QuickSight, or similar services
- Write scripts to automate repetitive tasks (e.g., with Python, Bash, or PowerShell)
- Implement CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployments
- Support API integrations and third-party service integrations, such as Databricks
- Help containerize and package the capability so it can be deployed and expanded across multiple systems and customers
- Develop technical documentation, onboarding guides, deployment notes, and implementation playbooks
- Lead cloud migration and modernization efforts, including workload assessment, right-sizing, and cost optimization
- Implement cloud monitoring solutions to track the performance, availability, and health of applications and infrastructure
- Respond to incidents, troubleshoot issues, and provide support as necessary
- Analyze logs, metrics, and cloud monitoring tools (e.g., CloudWatch) to troubleshoot and resolve performance bottlenecks
- Work closely with application developers, cyber, operations teams, and business stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver cloud solutions
- Monitor and optimize cloud resource usage to reduce costs while maintaining system performance
Skills
- US citizenship required; ability to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret eligible clearance
- Minimum 8 years work experience with BS/BA in computer science, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
- 8+ years of progressive experience in cloud infrastructure roles
- 5+ years of experience in AWS cloud engineering or similar roles
- Deep hands-on expertise designing AWS solutions, including VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, networking/Transit Gateway, KMS, Organizations, Control Tower, PrivateLink, Direct Connect, and Site-to-Site VPN
- 5+ years of scripting experience (Python, Bash, PowerShell)
- 3+ years of experience developing AWS policies as code (JSON)
- 3+ years of experience with the AWS CLI
- 2+ years of experience with AWS cloud-native security services such as GuardDuty, Security Hub, and Inspector
- Demonstrated experience architecting within FedRAMP Moderate (or FedRAMP High/DoD IL4-5 or similar compliance) environments, including familiarity with NIST 800-53 and NIST 800-171 control families
- 2+ years of experience and strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar) and CI/CD pipelines
- 3+ years of experience with cloud-native and serverless architectures (Lambda, API Gateway, microservices) and containerization
- Cloud development experience using Python is highly preferred
- Certification: AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate
- Certification: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
- Experience with Databricks implementation and support
- Azure Administrator Associate certification
- Active security clearance
- Experience with AWS AI services (Amazon Bedrock)
- Experience with hybrid/multi-cloud architecture, including Azure (VNets, Azure AD/Entra ID, Azure Policy, ExpressRoute)
- Experience with Microsoft .NET
- Experience supporting ATO/continuous monitoring processes
- Familiarity with DevSecOps pipelines
- Familiarity with AI security and governance frameworks, national security/defense/critical infrastructure missions, and supporting federal agencies or large GovCon programs
Benefits
- 100% remote position
- Employees may be eligible for overtime
- Employees may be eligible for shift differential
- Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay
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