Senior Cloud Administrator

Peraton•,

2d•$104,000 - $166,000•Remote

About The Position

Peraton is seeking an experienced Senior Cloud Administrator to support the DOI USGS Permitting Modernization and Cloud Infrastructure program on the WARP platform. This fully remote, hands-on role owns day-to-day operations for AWS infrastructure supporting a distributed development workforce and Government personnel across separate development, testing, staging, and production environments. The administrator manages AWS Marketplace subscriptions, enforces Government-directed security controls, monitors environment health, and serves as the primary point of contact for AWS support escalations. The work takes place in a FedRAMP Moderate federal environment and focuses on platform availability, access integrity, and security compliance. The program supports DOI and USGS modernization of federal permitting through WARP (Workflows, Authorizations, Registrations, and Permits), a cloud-native AWS platform. The environment supports developers, business analysts, and Government stakeholders and uses cloud infrastructure, AI-assisted decision support, and data engineering. Peraton's program work includes secure, multi-environment AWS operations and support for AI/ML services, workforce training, and compliance with FedRAMP, FISMA, and NIST standards.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree and 10 years of professional experience, or a master's degree and 8 years, or an associate degree and 12 years, or a high school diploma/equivalent and 14 years.
U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
Must perform all work within the United States; international work is not permitted under the contract.
At least 5 years of hands-on system or cloud administration experience, including at least 3 years in AWS environments.
Demonstrated experience administering multi-environment AWS cloud platforms at enterprise or federal scale.
Proficiency with AWS core services, including EC2, S3, Lambda, Fargate, ECS/EKS, VPC, and AWS Backup.
Hands-on experience implementing and enforcing IAM policies, SCPs, Service Quotas, and access governance in AWS Organizations.
Hands-on experience with AWS KMS, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, and centralized log archival to S3.
Experience managing AWS Marketplace subscriptions and procurement workflows.
Knowledge of IAM best practices, least-privilege principles, and federated identity management.
Understanding of ETL pipelines and data platform operations in cloud environments.
Familiarity with Databricks cluster administration, including compute, storage, and networking configuration.
Familiarity with AWS Organizations, tag policies, service quota management, and multi-account governance.
Familiarity with DOI security policies, incident reporting requirements, and C&A processes.
Familiarity with NIST SP 800-34 and NIST SP 800-64.
Ability to create and maintain system documentation, runbooks, contingency plans, and incident response records.
Prior experience working in or administering FedRAMP Moderate or higher cloud environments.
Experience managing AWS support relationships, escalating technical issues, and driving resolution with cloud vendors.
One or more listed certifications, or ability to obtain one within 90 days: AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate; AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate; or AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional.

Nice To Haves

Prior experience on a DOI, USGS, or other Department of the Interior program.
Experience administering Databricks workspaces in a federated, multi-team environment.
Experience with SIEM tools or centralized security monitoring platforms.
Experience with NIST SP 800-37 Risk Management Framework processes.
Working knowledge of FISMA, FedRAMP, and NIST SP 800-53 security controls applicable to cloud platforms.
Working knowledge of the DOI IT Systems Contingency Plan Guide and DOI Computer Incident Response Guide.
Familiarity with Amazon Bedrock or LLM/AI platform administration.
Familiarity with Section 508 accessibility requirements and accessibility testing tools.
Background supporting agile software development teams using GitLab or Atlassian toolsets such as Jira and Confluence.

Responsibilities

Administer and maintain AWS cloud environments for WARP, including development, test, staging, and production, ensuring availability, performance, and security.
Manage AWS Marketplace subscriptions, including procurement, provisioning, renewal, and decommissioning of approved runtime subscriptions.
Monitor environment health and performance using AWS CloudWatch and other observability tools; triage and remediate alerts, incidents, and service disruptions.
Manage AWS support tickets and coordinate with AWS technical teams to resolve platform issues, service limits, and infrastructure anomalies.
Control and manage consumption throttling for compute, storage, AI/ML, and data services in coordination with the FinOps Cloud Engineer.
Administer data operations, including cross-AZ and cross-region data transfer, AWS KMS key management, CloudTrail audit logging, centralized S3 log archival, and AWS Backup configurations.
Manage Databricks cluster provisioning, storage, and networking within the DOI-designated environment.
Administer user access and personnel tracking for contractor and Government personnel accessing DOI systems, and promptly notify the COR of personnel departures or role changes.
Maintain security agreements, non-disclosure agreements, and DOI Rules of Behavior documentation for personnel with unsupervised USGS system access.
Assist with C&A documentation, contingency plans under NIST SP 800-34, and security assessment support materials.
Perform system administration exclusively within Government-designated environments and do not use Peraton-owned storage or systems for Government data.
Complete mandatory annual DOI IT Security Awareness Training and comply with applicable DOI, FISMA, and FedRAMP security policies.