Cloud DevOps Engineer

Peraton • ,

1d • $86,000 - $138,000 • Remote

About The Position

Peraton is seeking an experienced Cloud DevOps Engineer for its Department of Interior (DOI) CHS III program. The role manages and optimizes AWS cloud infrastructure, supporting incident management, ticket resolution, operational automation, and configuration management. CHS III supports cloud hosting and application modernization across DOI and its subordinate bureaus, including migration of legacy on-premises applications to a secure, scalable multi-cloud platform. The position is fully remote, and all work must be performed within the United States.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of professional experience, or a master’s degree and 3 years of professional experience, or a high school diploma/equivalent and 9 years of professional experience.
• U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance; all work must be performed within the United States.
• Hands-on experience designing, deploying, and managing cloud-based solutions using AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, CloudFormation, and IAM.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, GitLab, GitLab Runners, or other third-party tools.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, or AWS CDK.
• Experience with Python, Bash, AWS CLI, or other scripting languages to automate deployments, streamline workflows, troubleshoot issues, and resolve operational challenges in AWS environments.
• Hold at least one listed certification or be able to attain one within 90 days: AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate, AWS Certified Developer – Associate, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, or AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
• One or more AWS specialty certifications, such as AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty, AWS Certified Security – Specialty, or AWS AI Fundamentals.
• Experience with incident management, root cause analysis, and resolving high-priority incidents in large, multi-tenant environments using tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Exemplary communication and analytical skills, with technical knowledge across the client environment.
• Ability to produce concise and clear technical documentation.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Experience leveraging AI tools to accelerate workflows and code generation and to produce concise, clear AI-assisted technical documentation.
• Experience using or supporting applications such as Dremio, Tableau, Posit, or Nebari.

Responsibilities

• Participate in root cause analysis of system incidents.
• Respond to and resolve operations support queue tickets promptly and efficiently, tracking, documenting, and closing issues according to SLAs.
• Use AWS CloudFormation, GitLab, GitLab Runners, and related tools to manage and maintain AWS infrastructure, including EC2, RDS, S3, ELB, VPC, IAM roles and policies, and security groups.
• Automate routine operational tasks to improve reliability, security monitoring, and configuration management using AWS Step Functions, Lambda, SSM documents, EventBridge, SNS, SQS, and scripting languages.
• Implement configuration management solutions such as Ansible, Chef, or AWS Systems Manager.
• Set up and maintain observability tools such as CloudWatch, DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, and the ELK stack to monitor infrastructure and application performance.
• Apply security best practices, including IAM policies, encryption, VPC design, and secrets management, and ensure compliance with organizational standards.
• Analyze and optimize AWS cloud costs without compromising performance or scalability.
• Work cross-functionally with customer DevOps engineers, attend weekly team meetings, and report status on open tickets and DevOps assignments.

Benefits

• Medical benefits
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Health savings account
• Short- and long-term disability
• Employee assistance program (EAP)
• Parental leave
• 401(k)
• Paid time off (PTO) for vacation
• Company-paid holidays
• Potential eligibility for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED