AWS Cloud Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $104k - $166k / year

⏰ Full Time

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☁️ Cloud Engineer

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Peraton

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10,000+ employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Peraton is a mission-focused enterprise that supports national security initiatives through advanced IT and cyber services. They provide capabilities in areas such as cyber defense, cloud operations, engineering, and intelligence. With a commitment to solving complex challenges, Peraton integrates data-driven technologies to ensure mission success for their military and government clients.

📋 Description

• Ensure the performance, reliability, and scalability of critical platforms supporting data-driven decision-making • Provide day-to-day customer application support • Maintain infrastructure and monitor systems • Resolve incidents and implement automation to improve operational efficiency • Collaborate with data engineers, analysts, development, security, and infrastructure teams • Design and build AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform and GitLab CI/CD pipelines • Guide ADTs on cloud solution patterns, deployment strategies, and architecture decisions • Own automation end-to-end, from IaC authorship to pipeline design to production operations • Participate in an on-call rotation and contribute to observability and 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 and troubleshoot performance, availability, and other incidents • Maintain configuration documentation, diagrams, and SOPs for all environments • Perform backups, scheduled upgrades, and maintenance during maintenance windows • Monitor security vulnerabilities and perform ad-hoc upgrades and maintenance • Support audits by providing logs, reports, and system configurations • Manage and support AWS IAM, including roles, policies, permissions, and access controls

🎯 Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship required • Ability to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust level clearance • Must be willing to undergo a pre-employment credit check as required by the Customer • Bachelor's Degree and 8 years of experience; a Master's 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, security, serverless/microservice architectures, and containerization • Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), specifically 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 in Python and Bash • Proficient in configuration management, observability (CloudWatch, Grafana), reliability, and disaster recovery practices • Proficient in cloud engineering processes using automation tooling such as Terraform, Python, and GitLab CI for AWS workloads • Strong Git proficiency, including common branching/release strategies (GitFlow, etc.) • Experience with incident management, root cause analysis, and resolving high-priority incidents in large, multi-tenant environments • Experience working in an Agile environment • Ansible experience is a plus • Experience with CloudFormation, PowerShell, JavaScript/Node.js, or other scripting languages is preferred • Exemplary communication, analytical skills, and technical knowledge across the client environment

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Life insurance • Health savings account • Short-term disability • Long-term disability • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) • Parental leave • 401(k) • Paid time off (PTO) for vacation • Company paid holidays • Eligible employees may receive overtime • Eligible employees may receive shift differential • Eligible employees may receive a discretionary bonus