Release / Deployment Specialist - SME

Peraton • Fort Bragg, NC

2d • $135,000 - $216,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Join Peraton's mission-critical team supporting secure, real-time data delivery across complex operational environments in direct support of our nation's warfighters. If you are driven by national security and energized by cutting-edge C 2I SR capabilities, sensor integration, and resilient data transport solutions, we invite you to join our team. We are seeking highly cleared professionals who excel at the intersection of advanced communications infrastructure, distributed systems, and mission assurance—where reliability, security, and performance are paramount. Specifically, we are looking for a TS/SCI cleared Release/Deployment Specialist - SME to support this mission at Pope Army Airfield, North Carolina . Responsibilities: As a Release/Deployment Specialist - SME , you will provide technical and management leadership for all equipment and information support functions across the Task Order. Your responsibilities include: Provides strategic leadership for defining the overarching vision, policies, and operational standards for C2ISR Release and Deployment across the entire enterprise. Leads activities to transition to modernize engineering practices, digital engineering frameworks, and emerging mission systems technologies Establishes enterprise-wide goals and long-range strategic plans for the continuous delivery and deployment of complex integrated C2ISR capabilities, ensuring future-state readiness and rapid adaptation to evolving mission requirements. Serves as the principal authority on all aspects of release engineering, CI/CD, and automated deployment frameworks for highly integrated, mission-critical C2ISR systems. Provides training on integrated C2ISR workflows, data flows, and cross-platform dependencies Directs and controls all release and deployment initiatives, holding ultimate responsibility for strategic planning, resource allocation, process methodologies, and staffing, ensuring operational excellence and minimal disruption during system changes. Leverages deep domain and expert technical knowledge to conduct comprehensive deployment risk assessments, develop advanced mitigation strategies, and integrate innovative, proactive release solutions (e.g., blue/green, canary deployments). Engages in high-level client negotiations and strategic interfacing with senior management, shaping policies, resource allocation, and technical standards with critical impact on C2ISR mission effectiveness and rapid capability / delivery. Utilizes the following Role Specific Tools: ITIL Change Management tools (ServiceNow Change, Remedy Change); CI/CD platforms (GitLab CI/CD, DAST, Jenkins, Azure DevOps); project scheduling software (Microsoft Project, Smartsheet); configuration management databases (CMDB); defect and release tracking systems (Jira, Azure DevOps); documentation repositories (Confluence, SharePoint); collaboration platforms (Microsoft Teams, Slack); risk assessment templates; ASI tracking dashboards; performance monitoring tools (Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana). ServiceNow and Jira for CMDB. GitLab, VMware Aria Automation and Orchestration, Jenkins, RedHat Ansible Automation Platform, Terraform, Prometheus, HAProxy , and Grafana for DevSecOps pipeline. SparxEA , Cameo, and Visio for modeling. Docker, Kubernetes, and VMware Tanzu for containerization / orchestration.

Requirements

• Previous experience as a Release/Deployment S p ecial ist or similar role supporting a DoD customer at the C CMD leve l
• Minimum of 12 years’ experience with a BS /BA degree or 10 years’ experience with a MS/MA or 8 years’ experience with a Ph.D. OR 16 years without a degree OR 14 years with AS/AA
• A current, active DoD security clearance at the TS/SCI level
• US citizenship
• DOD 8140 Compliance based on functional role for WRC: 802 IT Project Manager, Advanced Level / ability to obtain

Nice To Haves

• DoD-approved IA baseline certification for ADP-III/IT-III based on the IAT level and CE/Operating System (OS) certificate within six months of the assignment.
• Minimum of 16 years’ experience with a BS /BA degree or 14 years’ experience with a MS/MA or 10 years’ experience with a Ph.D. OR 20 years without a degree OR 18 years with AS/AA

Responsibilities

• Provides strategic leadership for defining the overarching vision, policies, and operational standards for C2ISR Release and Deployment across the entire enterprise.
• Leads activities to transition to modernize engineering practices, digital engineering frameworks, and emerging mission systems technologies
• Establishes enterprise-wide goals and long-range strategic plans for the continuous delivery and deployment of complex integrated C2ISR capabilities, ensuring future-state readiness and rapid adaptation to evolving mission requirements.
• Serves as the principal authority on all aspects of release engineering, CI/CD, and automated deployment frameworks for highly integrated, mission-critical C2ISR systems.
• Provides training on integrated C2ISR workflows, data flows, and cross-platform dependencies
• Directs and controls all release and deployment initiatives, holding ultimate responsibility for strategic planning, resource allocation, process methodologies, and staffing, ensuring operational excellence and minimal disruption during system changes.
• Leverages deep domain and expert technical knowledge to conduct comprehensive deployment risk assessments, develop advanced mitigation strategies, and integrate innovative, proactive release solutions (e.g., blue/green, canary deployments).
• Engages in high-level client negotiations and strategic interfacing with senior management, shaping policies, resource allocation, and technical standards with critical impact on C2ISR mission effectiveness and rapid capability / delivery.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees