What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Cloud Engineer (Platform/Infrastructure Lead) position at Peraton?
| Requisition ID | 2025-161800 | Position Category | Information Technology | Clearance | Public Trust |
Peraton is seeking a Senior Level Cloud Engineer (Platform/Infrastructure Lead) to support the NOAA AWIPS program - the mission-critical forecasting system used in over 150 National Weather Service offices nationwide. AWIPS is entering a phase of modernization and cloud-ready transformation, and this role will help guide the design, deployment, and optimization of cloud infrastructure that strengthens forecasting speed, resilience, and scalability.
What You'll Do:
Designs, implements, and manages the cloud infrastructure and systems, ensuring they are secure, scalable, and efficient. This involves tasks like migrating on-premises systems to the cloud, automating infrastructure deployments, optimizing cloud cost, and troubleshooting cloud-related issues and ensuring adherence to security policies..
Responsibilities:
- Implement automation, IaC, containerization, and CI/CD pipelines
- Ensure cloud security, identity management, and compliance
- Monitor and tune cloud systems for optimum performance, identify single points of failure, and implement strategies to increase performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Support application migration and modernization initiatives
- Work closely with cross-functional teams, including developers and product teams, to integrate cloud services and streamline workflows.
- Provide technical leadership, mentor junior engineers, and drive best practices in cloud engineering, including automation, CI/CD pipelines, and configuration management.
Required Qualifications:
- Minimum of 12 years with BS/BA, 10 years with MS/MA or 7 years with PhD.
- 4 additional years of relevant experience will be considered in lieu of a bachelor's degree
- Prior experience with cloud technologies to include AWS, Azure, and Google.
- Experience using coding languages such as Perl, Java, PowerShell, PHP, Ruby, Python, etc.
- Experienced with Cloud Architecture patterns and strategies (including IaaS, PaaS, Security, Compute, Storage, and networking).
- Experience with Amazon Web Services, code-defined infrastructure, configuration management tools, and CI/CD.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust
Preferred Qualifications:
- Prior experience supporting NOAA programs.
- Certified Cloud Solution Architect with AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
- Advanced SQL server and AWS
- Active/Current Public Trust
** This position is contingent upon contract award **
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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.
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