AWS Cloud Engineer

Peraton is a national security and enterprise IT company delivering mission-critical technology solutions for government agencies and the U.S. armed forces. The AWS Cloud Engineer will support, maintain, and optimize secure, reliable, and scalable AWS analytics infrastructure through cloud engineering, automation, monitoring, incident resolution, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build AWS cloud infrastructure using IaC (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI)
• Guide ADTs on cloud solution patterns, deployment strategies, and architecture decisions; able to influence design choices and align stakeholders
• Own automation end-to-end; from IaC authorship to pipeline design to production operations
• Participate in on-call rotation and contribute to observability/monitoring practices
• Provide technical support and guidance to AWS and managed service users
• Design, deploy, and maintain secure, scalable, and highly available AWS cloud infrastructure
• Monitor AWS environments, identify performance or availability issues, and troubleshoot and resolve incidents
• Collaborate with development, security, and infrastructure teams to implement cloud solutions, improve reliability, and follow AWS best practices
• Maintain configuration documentation, diagrams and SOP's for all environments
• Perform backups, regularly scheduled upgrades and maintenance activities during the maintenance window
• Monitor for security vulnerabilities and perform ad-hoc upgrades and maintenance as required
• Support audit activities by providing logs, reports, and system configurations
• Manage and support AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), including roles, policies, permissions, and access controls, to maintain secure and compliant cloud environments

Requirements:

• U.S. Citizenship required with the ability to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust level clearance
• Bachelors Degree and 8 years of experience; a Masters Degree and 6 years of experience, or a High School Diploma or equivalent and 12 years of experience
• Deep, hands-on knowledge of AWS architecture, networking (e.g., VPCs, routing), security (e.g., IAM & Resource Policies, encryption ), serverless/microservice architectures, and containerization (e.g., ECS, Docker, Kubernetes)
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IAC), specifically utilizing advanced Terraform skills
• Proven experience designing and maintaining GitLab CI/CD pipelines, including reusable/shared components for enterprise-scale delivery
• Hands-on experience monitoring, analyzing, and troubleshooting SaaS application logs
• Strong scripting skills Python and Bash
• Proficient in configuration management, observability (CloudWatch, Grafana), reliability, and disaster recovery practices
• Proficient in the design, development, build, deployment, troubleshooting, and maintenance cloud engineering processes using automation tooling (e.g.,Terraform, Python, GitLab CI) for AWS workloads
• Strong Git proficiency, including common branching/release strategies (GitFlow, etc.)
• Ansible experience is plus
• Runners, as well as Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as CloudFormation
• Experience with PowerShell, Bash, or JavaScript/Node.js or other scripting languages to automate, troubleshoot and resolve issues
• Experience with incident management, root cause analysis, and resolving high-priority incidents in large, multi-tenant environments
• Exemplary communication, analytical skills, and technical knowledge across the client environment
• Experience working in an Agile environment