Junior Systems Engineer

Peraton•,

1d•$80,000 - $128,000

About The Position

The Systems Engineer will design, build, and support the core cloud infrastructure that underpins production workloads across AWS and Kubernetes environments. In this role, you will implement reliable foundational services, maintaining secure and scalable infrastructure components, and ensuring the platform is stable, monitored, and operationally ready. The engineer will contribute to infrastructure architecture, support deployment and automation patterns, and help deliver resilient systems across a regulated cloud environment. Requires solid experience with AWS services, Kubernetes operations, networking fundamentals, and modern infrastructure tooling. You will collaborate closely with platform, security, and application teams to maintain compliant environments, strengthen operational processes, and ensure infrastructure components—such as networking, compute, storage, and platform services—are configured and managed according to best practices.

Requirements

2 years with BS/BA; High School and 6 years experience in lieu of degree
2+ years of hands‑on experience with AWS core services, including VPC, EC2, IAM, KMS, CloudWatch, and networking components.
2+ years of practical experience operating Kubernetes or EKS clusters in production environments.
Ability to obtain a Public Trust Clearance
Solid understanding of cloud networking concepts, including VPC design, routing, security groups, NACLs, and private connectivity.
Experience implementing secure infrastructure configurations, including IAM least privilege, encryption, logging, and access controls.
Proficiency with infrastructure‑as‑code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Argo CD, Jenkins, etc.).
Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and observability tooling, such as CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/EFK, etc.
Experience troubleshooting distributed systems, including cloud networking, containers, and infrastructure failures.
Experience operating in regulated or compliance-conscious environments, especially those involving sensitive data.
Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, or similar) for automation and operational support.
Ability to collaborate effectively across security, platform, and application teams, communicating clearly in cross‑functional environments.
Must be a US Citizen or a Green Card holder and have been in the US for 3 of the last 5 years.
Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

Nice To Haves

Experience using Terragrunt to manage Terraform modules and environment orchestration.
Exposure to service mesh technologies such as Istio or Linkerd.
Experience with secrets management platforms such as Vault or AWS Secrets Manager.
Familiarity with zero‑trust principles, network segmentation, or private service connectivity patterns.
Experience participating in DR tests, backup/restore workflows, or audit evidence collection.
Knowledge of container runtime security or Kubernetes admission controls.

Responsibilities

Implement reliable foundational services, maintaining secure and scalable infrastructure components, and ensuring the platform is stable, monitored, and operationally ready.
Contribute to infrastructure architecture, support deployment and automation patterns, and help deliver resilient systems across a regulated cloud environment.
Collaborate closely with platform, security, and application teams to maintain compliant environments, strengthen operational processes, and ensure infrastructure components—such as networking, compute, storage, and platform services—are configured and managed according to best practices.