[Hiring] Senior DevOps Engineer @Peraton

Role Description

The Senior DevOps Engineer designs, automates, secures, and supports AWS cloud infrastructure and software delivery pipelines for a mission-critical application supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The position provides senior-level technical expertise in:

• Infrastructure as code
• CI/CD
• Controlled deployments
• System reliability
• Production troubleshooting
• Federal security compliance

Collaboration with development, quality assurance, security, and operations teams is essential to deliver reliable, compliant releases.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years with BS/BA; Minimum of 6 years with MS/MA; Minimum of 3 years with PhD; 12 years with a HS Diploma
• Experience with hands-on AWS infrastructure
• Active AWS Associate-level certification and understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework
• Hands-on administration of Linux servers (Ubuntu preferred), including scripting and automation of patching, backups, logging, key management, and system hardening
• Experience with AWS storage (S3, EBS, incremental snapshots, and AMI management), cloud networking and connectivity, load balancing, and Auto Scaling
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code and CI/CD tools, including Terraform, Ansible, and Jenkins
• Ability to obtain a VA Public Trust clearance; U.S. Citizen, Green Card holder, residing in the United States for at least three years

Requirements

• Engineer and maintain reusable Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for source validation, builds, automated testing, security scanning, containerization, artifact promotion, and deployment
• Manage releases across DEV, DEV2, TEST, MVC, PREPROD, and PROD environments, using automated lower-environment deployments and controlled approvals for higher environments
• Provision and maintain AWS infrastructure and Amazon ECS services using CloudFormation and other IaC tools, including IAM, VPCs, subnets, security groups, load balancers, target groups, resource sizing, and health checks
• Build, tag, publish, and promote Docker images through Amazon ECR with artifact traceability and no unnecessary rebuilding between environments
• Automate Java/Maven API and Node.js/npm application builds, dependency management, linting, caching, and security checks; integrate Amazon S3 and ECR with delivery workflows
• Lead technical execution of release and change controls, production deployments, quality checks, maintenance windows, and stakeholder communications
• Diagnose and resolve complex pipeline, AWS, networking, IAM, dependency, configuration, and production issues; support disaster recovery planning, testing, and ongoing environment management

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance
• Health savings account
• Short/long term disability
• EAP
• Parental leave
• 401(k)
• Paid time off (PTO) for vacation
• Company paid holidays

Target Salary Range

$86,000 - $138,000. 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.