Application Cloud Engineer

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe. They are seeking an Application Cloud Engineer to maintain cloud-based applications and infrastructure on AWS, collaborating with various teams to ensure performance, scalability, and security of cloud applications.

Responsibilities:

• Provision and manage AWS infrastructure using infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform
• Hands-on experience with Amazon EKS (cluster provisioning, upgrades, node groups management)
• Familiarity with EKS networking (VPC CNI, security groups for pods, ALB/NLB ingress controllers
• Kubectl proficiency and general Kubernetes object management (deployments, services, configmaps, secrets, RBAC)
• Monitor and troubleshoot production systems using AWS CloudWatch and other observability tools
• Collaborate with developers to containerize and deploy applications using ECS and Lambda
• Deploy applications across multiple environments (dev, staging, prod) and ensure consistency and stability
• Monitor deployments and system health using CloudWatch and other tools
• Troubleshoot and resolve deployment issues and improve pipeline performance and reliability
• Perform daily health checks using AWS CLI or scheduled Lambda scripts to check health and log/report results
• Collaborate with development team and DevOps teams to ensure applications are stateless and fault-tolerant
• Implement enhancements to containerized environments on ECS, focusing on scalability, performance and observability
• Enhance container orchestration strategies, including auto-scaling, rolling deployments and upgrades
• Support feature branch testing, merge request validation and artifact promotion workflows
• Ensure pipeline security and compliance through automated code scanning and approval gates
• Responsible for remediation of OS-level, container and dependent vulnerabilities
• Orchestrate failover and restoration of ECS/ EKS services, Lambda functions, databases and other infrastructure components
• Test and document regional failover playbooks and recovery runbooks
• Ensure compliance with RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective) requirements
• Diagnose and resolve production issues related to cloud services, container orchestration, databases and CI/CD pipelines
• Follow and improve incident response playbooks, escalation procedures and communication workflows
• Automate common operational tasks and improve alert accuracy to reduce on-call fatigue
• Log incidents, changes, and operational metrics in tracking systems

Requirements:

• 5 years with BS/BA. High School diploma and 9 years of experience will be accepted in lieu of the degree
• 5 years of IT experience
• Hands-on experience with AWS and cloud-based deployment strategies
• Familiarity with image registries like Amazon ECR and CI/CD pipelines for container deployment
• Proficient with Python, Bash, YAML/JSON, Node.js, Lambda functions
• Proficient in scripting languages like Python, Bash and Node.js
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (GibHub, GitLab, Kubernettes, DevOps, CI)
• Knowledge of disaster recovery planning and implementation
• AWS or relevant Cloud certifications (AWS DevOps Engineer, Solutions Architect Associate)
• Solid understanding of cloud architecture principles, autoscaling strategies and load balancing
• Proficient with monitoring, alerting and logging tools
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Must be a US Citizen
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
• Familiarity with container orchestration (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes)
• Knowledge of ITIL practice or incident management frameworks