AWS Cloud Engineer

Peraton is looking for an experienced Cloud Engineer for a role based out of Fairfax, VA. For this position we are looking for an engineer with hands-on AWS/Terraform/CloudFormation experience to develop and support Mission Critical applications in support of the Intelligence Community.

• Planning, designing and developing cloud-based applications
• Managing cloud environments in accordance with company security guidelines
• Deploying and debugging cloud initiatives as needed in accordance with best practices throughout the development lifecycle
• Employing exceptional problem-solving skills, with the ability to see and solve issues before they snowball into problems
• Assist sponsor with evaluating new cloud technologies as they become available in enterprise
• Back up data via snapshots and restore data to a new EBS volume
• Collaborate with other developers and engineers to evaluate and identify optimal cloud solutions
• Configure and maintain cloud watch events to monitor and alert when problems arrive in dev, test, and prod
• Configure and monitor Linux installations including standard Linux utilities such as netstat, grep, scripting, vi, and sblk
• Creating S3 buckets and storing files, documents, HTML statis pages, and permissions
• Request DNS via enterprise standard procedures
• Update SSL server certs for AWS RDS database via CLI
• Design, develop, and deploy modular cloud-based systems and solution in accordance with best practice

Required

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph required
• BS/BA degree with 5 years of experience, or MS/MA degree with 3 years
• 4 years of additional experience may be considered in lieu of a BS/BA degree
• Hands on AWS experience (tools such as SNS/SQS, Lambda, VPC, S3, etc.)
• Familiarity automating AWS infrastructure (Jenkins, CloudFormation, Terraform, etc.)
• Experience working in an Agile environment

Preferred

• AWS Certifications
• Java or Python experience
• Working knowledge of SecDevOps
• Hands on CI/CD experience

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.