Senior AWS Cloud Engineer – Cloud Implementation Lead

🕒 July 31

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $104k - $166k / 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

• Lead day-to-day technical implementation of AWS-based cloud operations and deployment of applications and the MVP • Provision and configure compute, storage, database, and other services using Infrastructure as Code (AWS CloudFormation and Terraform) • Develop and maintain pipeline automation for application and infrastructure deployments • Design and package applications using modern containerization and orchestration tooling • Configure logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting, applying SRE practices • Produce cost-and-capacity reports using FinOps tooling • Produce design documents, diagrams, and hand-over guides • Create, manage, and optimize AWS cloud environments and resources • Support AWS implementation using services such as S3, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Config, Security Hub, IAM, KMS, ECS/Fargate, Athena/Glue, and QuickSight • Write scripts to automate repetitive tasks using Python, Bash, or PowerShell • Implement CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployments • Support API integrations and third-party service integrations, such as Databricks • Containerize and package the capability for deployment and expansion across multiple systems and customers • Develop technical documentation, onboarding guides, deployment notes, and implementation playbooks • Lead cloud migration and modernization efforts, including workload assessment, right-sizing, and cost optimization • Implement cloud monitoring solutions to track application and infrastructure performance, availability, and health • Respond to incidents, troubleshoot issues, and provide support • Analyze logs, metrics, and cloud monitoring tools to troubleshoot and resolve performance bottlenecks • Collaborate with application developers, cyber and operations teams, and business stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver cloud solutions • Monitor and optimize cloud resource usage to reduce costs while maintaining system performance

🎯 Requirements

• US citizenship required • Ability to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret eligible clearance • Minimum 8 years work experience with BS/BA in computer science, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent experience) • 8+ years of progressive experience in cloud infrastructure roles • 5+ years of experience in AWS cloud engineering or similar roles • Deep hands-on expertise designing AWS solutions, including VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, networking/Transit Gateway, KMS, Organizations, Control Tower, PrivateLink, Direct Connect, and Site-to-Site VPN • 5+ years of scripting experience (Python, Bash, PowerShell) • Cloud development experience using Python is highly preferred • 3+ years of experience developing AWS policies as code (JSON) • 3+ years of experience with the AWS CLI • 2+ years of experience with AWS cloud-native security services such as GuardDuty, Security Hub, and Inspector • Demonstrated experience architecting within FedRAMP Moderate (or FedRAMP High/DoD IL4-5 or similar compliance) environments, including familiarity with NIST 800-53 and NIST 800-171 control families • 2+ years of experience and strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar) and CI/CD pipelines • 3+ years of experience with cloud-native and serverless architectures (Lambda, API Gateway, microservices) and containerization • Preferred: AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate • Preferred: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate • Experience with Databricks implementation and support • Preferred: Azure Administrator Associate certification • Preferred: Active security clearance • Experience with AWS AI services (Amazon Bedrock) • Experience with hybrid/multi-cloud architecture, including Azure (VNets, Azure AD/Entra ID, Azure Policy, ExpressRoute) • Experience with Microsoft .NET • Experience supporting ATO/continuous monitoring processes • Familiarity with DevSecOps pipelines • Familiarity with AI security and governance frameworks, national security/defense/critical infrastructure missions, and supporting federal agencies or large GovCon programs

🏖️ Benefits

• Potential eligibility for overtime • Potential eligibility for shift differential • Potential eligibility for a discretionary bonus