Cloud Infrastructure Automation Engineer

Job Locations US-MD-Laurel

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that 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, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can't be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Position Overview:

We are seeking an engineer to support the design, development, automation, and sustainment of cloud-based infrastructure and CI/CD environments supporting mission-critical applications. This role will focus on building and maintaining highly automated, scalable, and reliable development and deployment environments across AWS and Kubernetes platforms.
• This position offers an opportunity to work with modern cloud technologies while supporting highly available environments and large-scale automated software development and deployment pipelines.

In this role, you will work with and be responsible for:

• Experience with Maven dependency management
• Experience building and maintaining cascading pipelines and triggers is strongly preferred
• Two or more years of experience authoring, documenting, and utilizing Terraform to automate configuration management of Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Two years of experience using HashiCorp Packer to build AMIs within CI pipelines
• Fluency with ECS, EKS, and Kubernetes
• Experience deploying and maintaining autoscaling fleets of dozens to hundreds of GitLab runners

Benefits: Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees supporting this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap, and eligibility to participate in an attractive bonus plan.

Basic Requirements:

• Active TS/SCI security clearance polygraph is required.
• Six (6) years of Configuration Management experience on programs of comparable scope and complexity.
• Bachelor's degree in technical or business discipline.
• Four (4) years of additional relevant Configuration Management experience may be substituted for a degree.

$112,000 - $179,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual's experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.

EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.