Senior Platform Engineer – Application Enablement Lead

🔥 14 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $112k - $179k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

💻 Application 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

• Drive application support and enablement across a large AWS enterprise ecosystem • Serve as the senior technical bridge between the platform organization and application teams • Own production support for applications running on OpenShift (ROSA) and Amazon EKS across AWS Commercial and GovCloud • Lead detection, triage, mitigation, restoration, and executive-level communication during high-impact incidents • Own customer issues end to end and drive them to resolution • Conduct blameless root-cause analyses and facilitate multi-stakeholder root-cause sessions • Identify recurring application and platform issues and eliminate them through engineering • Build reusable Terraform modules and GitLab project and pipeline templates for self-service provisioning • Operate self-service onboarding workflows covering repository creation, CI/CD wiring, quota and RBAC assignment, and security-gate enrollment • Publish golden-path pipeline templates and paved-road patterns with inherited security scanning, compliance gates, and observability hooks • Maintain onboarding documentation and module catalogs while tracking onboarding lead time and self-service adoption • Operate containerized workloads on OpenShift (ROSA) and Amazon EKS, including Spring Boot and other microservice deployments • Engineer AWS environments including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, EBS, ELB/ALB/NLB, Route 53, CloudWatch, and OpenSearch • Automate infrastructure with Terraform and configuration management and node hardening with Ansible/Ansible Tower • Operate GitLab CI/CD pipelines and support migration of legacy Jenkins pipelines to GitLab • Integrate SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets, and IaC scanning with policy-driven promotion gates • Operate observability across Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch, and OpenSearch • Enforce STIG, CIS, and organizational compliance and support Aqua Security for image scanning, admission control, and runtime protection • Support vulnerability management, ATO artifacts, audits, and continuous compliance reporting for FedRAMP and DoD-accredited boundaries • Set engineering standards, review architecture, mentor engineers, and represent application support in cross-functional planning and change advisory forums

🎯 Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen • Ability to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust level clearance • Bachelor's degree and 8 years of experience, or High School Diploma or equivalent and 12 years of experience • 8+ years of hands-on AWS experience supporting platform engineering, application operations, networking, and security across AWS Commercial and GovCloud • Strong experience with EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, EBS, ELB/ALB/NLB, Route 53, CloudWatch, and OpenSearch • Observability experience with Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch, and/or OpenSearch • Experience with Terraform and Ansible/Ansible Tower for infrastructure-as-code and configuration management • Hands-on experience leading production application support, including incident command, RCA facilitation, and driving corrective actions to closure • Experience building self-service developer onboarding or platform-as-a-product capabilities using Terraform and GitLab • Real-world experience establishing and maturing CI/CD toward progressive delivery • Proven track record in senior technical or advisory roles, driving strategic change and digital adoption across business units • Leadership presence and communication skills to work with customers at all levels and manage communication during critical incidents • Preferred: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional • Preferred: AWS Certified Security - Specialty • Preferred: Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration • Preferred: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) • Preferred: HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate • Preferred: Experience obtaining or maintaining an ATO in a FedRAMP High environment

🏖️ Benefits

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