Lead Cloud Architect

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $112k - $179k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

☁️ 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

• Own the reliability, availability, performance, and operational health of critical infrastructure services and applications • Lead complex production incidents and service recovery efforts, providing technical direction during high-impact events • Drive thorough root-cause analysis and corrective actions • Define and continuously improve SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, service health metrics, and operational standards • Lead observability strategy, including metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts • Lead the operational lifecycle of deployed services, including releases, upgrades, patching, configuration changes, capacity management, maintenance, and technology refreshes • Identify and resolve systemic reliability risks, recurring failure modes, capacity constraints, technical debt, and other operational risks • Design and lead resilience and recovery initiatives, including failure-mode analysis, performance and capacity testing, disaster recovery, backup and failover strategies, and recovery validation • Develop and advance automation and everything-as-code practices • Partner with Platform Engineering and application teams on architecture and design • Define operational and reliability requirements and influence platform capabilities and application architectures • Mentor junior Cloud Architects and provide technical leadership by establishing best practices and improving operational processes

🎯 Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust level clearance • Bachelor's Degree and 12 years of experience, or Master's and 10 years of experience, or a High School diploma/equivalent and 16 years of experience • 7+ years hands-on experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, or production systems engineering • Extensive hands-on experience operating in AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud, including OpenShift (ROSA) or comparable Kubernetes-based platforms • Deep infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform and Ansible / Ansible Tower • Advanced proficiency of GitLab and Jenkins CI/CD platforms, including reliability gating and deployment automation • Deep experience in Linux and Windows Server administration • Substantial practical experience implementing and managing enterprise observability tools such as Dynatrace, Datadog, Splunk and Open Telemetry • Ownership of an SLI/SLO and alerting program, including error budgets, alert rationalization, and noise reduction • Extensive scripting/automation proficiency in Python, Bash, PowerShell, or Go • Experience operating in federal or regulated environments (FISMA, FedRAMP, NIST 800-53) • Preferred: AWS Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps Engineer, or AWS SysOps certification • Preferred: Red Hat Certified Specialist in ROSA or Red Hat Certified Advanced System Administrator in OpenShift • Preferred: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, GCP Professional Cloud Architect, or GCP Professional Cloud Developer certification • Preferred: Dynatrace Associate or Datadog Log Management Fundamentals certification • Preferred: GitLab CI/CD Associate certification or Certified Jenkins Engineer (CJE) • Preferred: Terraform Authoring and Operations Professional certification

🏖️ Benefits

• Potential eligibility for overtime • Shift differential may be available • Discretionary bonus may be available