[Hiring] Cloud Computing, Senior Advisor @Peraton

Role Description

Peraton is seeking a highly motivated, result-driven Cloud DevOps Engineer with proven success in AWS Cloud information system environments. Must have self-driven proactive work style to meet and exceed established goals and expectations. Must have excellent problem-solving, analytic, and interpersonal skills capable of working individually or within an Agile team.

The Senior AWS Cloud DevOps Engineer will be responsible for the following but not limited to:

• Leveraging AWS DevOps and cloud tools to automate, provision, and monitor CI/CD processes.
• Hands-on support for mission-critical deployments.
• Implementing security for cloud authentication, authorization, auditing, monitoring.
• Implementing data security over client infrastructure and environments.
• After-hours on-call rotation shift support through the PagerDuty application.
• No travel required.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 12 years with BS/BA; Minimum of 10 years with MS/MA; Minimum of 7 years with PhD.
• Must be a U.S. citizen.
• Must have active a public trust clearance.
• Must have an AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (or other AWS Associate-level certification).
• Must have knowledge of AWS Cloud platform and its features, including EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC, EBS, ELB, ALB, Auto Scaling, RDS, S3, EFS, Lambda, IAM, CloudFront, CloudFormation, EKS, and ECS.
• Jenkins CI/CD tool for code build, deployment, maintenance.
• Configuring Jenkins nodes to build jobs in the view of distributing the load of Jenkins server and achieving parallel builds.
• Ansible configuration management tool for maintaining and creating new playbooks, creating post-deployment playbooks, setting up new implementations, alerting, and hardening.
• Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Terraform variables, datasources, state, workspaces, provisioner, null resources, modules, cloud and enterprise capabilities, sentinel policies, import, graph, expressions and debugging.
• Golden AMI creation for AWS deployments (using Terraform).
• Change set, intrinsic functions, multi resources, mappings and pseudo parameters, outputs and init in CloudFormation.
• Must have experience designing cloud security VPC, Network Security, VPC peering, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, VPN and MFA.
• Must have experience AWS CloudWatch monitoring, including setting up alarms and analyzing EC2 and load balancer logs.
• Must be familiar with scripting languages for automating modules on LINUX like BASH.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain Public Trust clearance with a Medium Background Investigation.

Requirements

• Ability to work with limited supervision and produce results within the given timeframe.
• Ability to produce documentation.
• Ability to articulate clear and concise engineering solutions.
• Ability to quickly come up to speed and provide value to the team.
• Agile team experience.
• Atlassian Jira tool experience.

Benefits

• Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays.

Target Salary Range

$112,000 - $179,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.