AWS Cloud Engineer

Peraton•,

10d•$104,000 - $166,000•Remote

About The Position

Peraton is seeking a motivated, detail-oriented AWS Cloud Engineer to ensure the performance, reliability, and scalability of critical platforms supporting data-driven decision-making. The role provides day-to-day customer application support, maintains infrastructure, monitors systems, resolves incidents, and implements automation to improve operational efficiency. The engineer collaborates with data engineers, analysts, and cross-functional teams to troubleshoot issues and deliver secure, scalable solutions. It requires AWS DevOps expertise, application support experience, strong problem-solving skills, and a proactive approach to optimizing analytics infrastructure. This is a remote position.

Requirements

U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust clearance.
Willingness to undergo a pre-employment credit check as required by the customer.
One of the following education and experience combinations: bachelor's degree and 8 years of experience; master's degree and 6 years of experience; or high school diploma or equivalent and 12 years of experience.
Deep, hands-on knowledge of AWS architecture, networking (including VPCs and routing), security (including IAM, resource policies, and encryption), serverless and microservice architectures, and containerization (including ECS, Docker, and Kubernetes).
Advanced Terraform skills and proficiency with infrastructure as code.
Proven experience designing and maintaining GitLab CI/CD pipelines, including reusable or shared components for enterprise-scale delivery.
Hands-on experience monitoring, analyzing, and troubleshooting SaaS application logs.
Strong Python and Bash scripting skills.
Proficiency in configuration management, observability (including CloudWatch and Grafana), reliability, and disaster recovery practices.
Proficiency in designing, developing, building, deploying, troubleshooting, and maintaining cloud engineering processes for AWS workloads using automation tools such as Terraform, Python, and GitLab CI.
Strong Git proficiency, including common branching and release strategies such as GitFlow.

Nice To Haves

Ansible experience.
Experience with runners and infrastructure-as-code tools such as CloudFormation.
Experience with PowerShell, Bash, JavaScript/Node.js, or other scripting languages to automate, troubleshoot, and resolve issues.
Experience with incident management, root cause analysis, and resolving high-priority incidents in large, multi-tenant environments.
Exemplary communication and analytical skills, and technical knowledge across the client environment.
Experience working in an Agile environment.

Responsibilities

Design and build AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform-based infrastructure as code and GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
Guide ADTs on cloud solution patterns, deployment strategies, and architecture decisions; influence design choices and align stakeholders.
Own automation end to end, from infrastructure-as-code authorship and pipeline design through production operations.
Participate in an on-call rotation and contribute to observability and monitoring practices.
Provide technical support and guidance to AWS and managed-service users.
Design, deploy, and maintain secure, scalable, and highly available AWS cloud infrastructure.
Monitor AWS environments, identify performance or availability issues, and troubleshoot and resolve incidents.
Collaborate with development, security, and infrastructure teams to implement cloud solutions, improve reliability, and follow AWS best practices.
Maintain configuration documentation, diagrams, and SOPs for all environments.
Perform backups, regularly scheduled upgrades, and maintenance during the maintenance window.
Monitor for security vulnerabilities and perform ad hoc upgrades and maintenance as required.
Support audit activities by providing logs, reports, and system configurations.
Manage and support AWS IAM roles, policies, permissions, and access controls to maintain secure and compliant cloud environments.