AWS Engineer

Peraton is looking for an AWS Engineer to support development, modernization, and migration in support of a government multi-cloud environment with 50+ customer tenants and growing.  Aside from technical qualifications, applicant should have effective communication skills, both written and verbal.

The applicant must have engineering experience and extensive AWS knowledge and experience with integration, system analysis or programming experience, including developing AWS systems requirements and design specification. The AWS Engineer will be responsible for resolving complex incidents, providing expert troubleshooting, and performing proactive monitoring of AWS Infrastructure and services. A passion for performance, strong desire for quality conformance, and attention to detail are prerequisites for this position.

Key Responsibilities:

Incident Response and Troubleshooting

• Investigate and resolve issues across various AWS services EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, Lambda, and IAM
• Perform root cause analysis to address underlying infrastructure issues and provide solutions to prevent recurrence.
• Manage and resolve high-priority incidents, ensuring timely communication with stakeholders and affected tenants

Monitoring and Optimization

• Continuously monitor tenant environments using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and other tools (Dynatrace, Splunk) to detect performance issues, security incidents, and infrastructure bottlenecks
• Utilize Dynatrace, Splunk, or other proactive monitoring tools to mitigate potential issues before they escalate
• Analyze system performance and recommend optimizations to improve stability, efficiency, and security

AWS Infrastructure Management

• Manage and maintain the AWS infrastructure, including EC2 instances, S3 buckets, VPC configurations, RDS databases, and other services
• Ensure that all tenants’ s AWS resources are secure, FedRAMP compliant, and optimized for performance
• Collaborate with the Architecture team to implement solutions that align with best practices for AWS cloud infrastructure
• Adhere to Change Management procedures

Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing

• Manage intake for assignment of newly created incidents
• As a team lead, work with Service Delivery Manager and support ISR Product owner to help work to improve overall team metrics (JIRA/ServiceNow)
• Collaborate with Tier 2 engineers to resolve incidents and implement improvements
• Document incident response procedures, resolutions, and lessons learned to enhance team knowledge and preparedness for future incidents

LOCATION: Remote (but must reside and perform all work within the United States)

WORK HOURS: This position requires working online from 8:00 AM Eastern to 5:00 PM Eastern

Basic Qualifications:

• 5 years experience w/Bachelors, 9 experience w/HS Diploma , 3 years experience with a Master's 
• 5+ years of integration and systems analysis experience focused on AWS cloud services and infrastructure
• 3+ years of extensive hands-on experience with a wide range of AWS services including but not limited to EC2 instances, S3 buckets, VPC configurations, RDS databases, and other services
• Experience with incident management, root cause analysis, and resolving high-priority incidents in large, multi-tenant environments
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of AWS GovCloud and deploying in Government environments.
• Exemplary communication, analytical skills, and technical knowledge across the client environment.
• Ability to produce concise and clear technical documentation.

Preferred Qualifications:

• • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CodeDeploy, or CodePipeline
  • Experience with PowerShell, AWS CLI, or other automation scripts to troubleshoot and resolve issues
  • AWS Certified SysOps Developer Associate
  • AWS Certified Developer - Associate
  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
  • Relevant Agile Certification
  • Other Certifications such as Red Hat Ansible

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.