Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and 5 years of experience or a Master's degree and 3 years of experience or a High School Diploma and 9 years of experience. 
• Experience architecting IT solutions using DevOps methodologies in multi-cloud environments, including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Azure.
• Certification as an Amazon Solutions Architect Professional.
• Advanced experience with both the Google Cloud Platform and the Azure Cloud Platform.
• Experience as an enterprise solution architect.
• Expertise in remote and office-based user integration, as well as hybrid cloud architecture, including cross-cloud connectivity.
• Experience evaluating and analyzing workloads in public and private cloud environments.
• Extensive experience in cloud security engineering and cloud network engineering.
• Significant experience using the Agile Methodology to manage IT project teams.
• Significant experience with managing projects using DevOps concepts.

Peraton is seeking a Lead SME Cloud Architect to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals.

Day to Day Roles and Responsibilities:

• Designs, develops, and implements cloud-based solutions, including creating architecture plans and specifications.
• Collaborates with product managers and engineers to develop specifications for new cloud-based products, services, and applications.
• Drives the deployment and enhancement of cloud management platforms, evaluating performance and implementing improvements.
• Expands the product portfolio of cloud services and value-added services.
• Creates solution recommendations and estimates for cloud services, evaluating cost/benefit compared to other hosting solutions.
• Performs operations and maintenance of secure managed cloud platform solutions.
• Implements and maintains automation for operational enhancements, alerting, and event auto-remediation.
• Develops, maintains, and deploys infrastructure as code using CI/CD pipelines.