Cloud DevOps Engineer Top Secret/SCI w/Poly

Peraton • Laurel, MD

7d • $112,000 - $179,000

About The Position

Peraton is seeking a Cloud DevOps Engineer to support the design, development, automation, and sustainment of cloud-based infrastructure and CI/CD environments for mission-critical applications. The role focuses on building and maintaining highly automated, scalable, and reliable development and deployment environments across AWS and Kubernetes platforms. The engineer will support highly available environments and large-scale automated software development and deployment pipelines.

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph.
• Six years of Configuration Management experience on programs of comparable scope and complexity.
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical or business discipline, or four additional years of relevant Configuration Management experience in lieu of a degree.
• Two or more years of experience authoring, documenting, and using Terraform to automate configuration management of Infrastructure as Code.
• Two years of experience using HashiCorp Packer to build AMIs within CI pipelines.
• Fluency with ECS, EKS, and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Maven dependency management.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building and maintaining cascading pipelines and triggers is strongly preferred.
• Experience deploying and maintaining autoscaling fleets of dozens to hundreds of GitLab runners.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, automate, and sustain cloud-based infrastructure and CI/CD environments supporting mission-critical applications.
• Build and maintain automated, scalable, and reliable development and deployment environments across AWS and Kubernetes platforms.
• Author, document, and use Terraform to automate configuration management of Infrastructure as Code.
• Use HashiCorp Packer to build AMIs within CI pipelines.
• Work with ECS, EKS, and Kubernetes.
• Deploy and maintain autoscaling fleets of GitLab runners.
• Build and maintain cascading pipelines and triggers.

Benefits

• Heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for employees and their dependents.
• 25 days of PTO accrued annually, up to a generous PTO cap.
• Eligibility to participate in an attractive bonus plan.
• Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level