AWS Cloud Developer

Peraton

91d • $86,000 - $138,000

About The Position

Peraton is seeking an AWS Cloud Developer to be a part of a team supporting a federal financial customer. The successful candidate will lead and contribute to cloud-native solution development, infrastructure automation, and the modernization of mission-critical services—including file transfer and messaging queue (MQ) platforms—in a secure, agile, and innovative AWS environment. Peraton serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies across the intelligence, space, cyber, defense, civilian, health, and state and local markets. Every day, our employees do the can’t be done, solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. This position is Hybrid, required to work onsite some days, and be willing to travel as required.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree and 5 years of experience or 9 years of experience with a HS Diploma
• Professional experience in software development, including substantial experience in technical leadership capacity
• Strong background in AWS cloud engineering and development, including experience with services such as: EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, Lambda, Step Functions, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, SNS, SQS, Glue, EKS/ECS
• Proficient in scripting and programming languages: Python, Ansible, Bash
• Experience developing or supporting infrastructure using CI/CD pipelines and DevOps principles
• Experience with AWS CDK, CloudFormation, or Terraform
• Working knowledge of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience communicating with business users and stakeholders
• Must be a US Citizen
• Must be able to obtain and maintain the required agency clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting or integrating file transfer and MQ tools (e.g., IBM MQ, Connect:Direct)
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and participation in Agile delivery teams (e.g., Scrum, SAFe)
• Understanding of compliance and security best practices in federal financial cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategic planning and execution of migrating and maintaining large complex data flows to modern cloud environments, specifically leveraging AWS cloud technologies
• Write clean, maintainable infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and cloud service logic using tools such as Python, Ansible, and AWS CloudFormation or CDK
• Develop and deploy event-driven and containerized applications using Lambda, Step Functions, and Kubernetes (EKS)
• Support and enhance COTS products providing file transfer and MQ services (e.g., IBM MQ, Connect:Direct), integrating them into modern AWS architectures
• Perform troubleshooting, performance tuning, and documentation of AWS environments and deployed solutions
• Coordinate closely with stakeholders across teams to manage integration and interface requirements, ensuring clear communication and alignment with overall business objectives
• Design and develop cloud-native solutions.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees