Responsibilities

Peraton is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to join our Technology and Engineering Software Delivery Center and support exciting projects across Peraton in areas such as communications, space, cybersecurity, defense, health, and mobile. You’ll have the opportunity to work in a collaborative, supportive environment that allows you to grow your skills and your career while building experience in a variety of different projects and domains. 

Location: Herndon, VA; Blacksburg, VA; Remote Available

Responsibilities

• Design and develop innovative cloud-based solutions to address specific business demands.
• Manage, install, test, configure, and maintain operating systems and applications to assure maximum availability. This enables a cloud system to run at peak efficiency.
• Design and implement the whole lifecycle functions of the programs required to run and be run on the cloud. This is vast and varied but frequently involves developing the processes, optimization, and risk management tools that a project(s) requires to function properly.

Qualifications

Required

• 12 years of experience working as a cloud engineer.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field
• Ability to work with internal and external teams to define requirements, specify architectures, complete detailed designs, and oversee implementations.
• Proven technical leadership skills and mastery of cutting-edge cloud solutions and architectures.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Self-motivated, independent, detail oriented, responsible team-player
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• U.S. Citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.

Desired

• Prior experience working in an Agile software development environment.
• Prior experience working in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Environments
• Extensive experience developing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) utilizing Terraform
• Developing scripts and templates necessary for resource provisioning to occur automatically.
• Experience with web development frameworks, database technologies, web services, and/or web application servers
• Discovering and implementing industry-standard cloud service offers, as well as processes and standards that ensure the most efficient use of cloud service provider products.
• Prior experience providing mentoring to junior personnel.
• Ability to anticipate problems and take decisive action and an ability to find innovative ways to solve problems.

Education and Experience Equivalency: Minimum of 12 years with BS/BA; Minimum of 10 years with MS/MA; Minimum of 7 years with PhD

Peraton Overview

Peraton drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted and highly differentiated national security solutions and technologies that keep people safe and secure. Peraton serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies across the intelligence, space, cyber, defense, civilian, health, and state and local markets. Every day, our employees do the can’t be done, solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers.

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