Cloud DevOps Engineer

Peraton is seeking an experienced and proactive Cloud DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team. This fully remote position involves managing and optimizing AWS cloud infrastructure through tasks such as incident management, ticket resolution, automation of operational tasks using scripting languages, and configuration management using tools like CloudFormation, Terraform, and Ansible. 

The Department of Interior (DOI) CHS III program is leading the way for Cloud Hosting and Applications Modernization across DOI and its subordinate bureaus. CHS III is facilitating the migration of legacy on-premises applications to a modern, secure and scalable multi-cloud platform.  From sensors in active volcanic regions to earthquake detection data, CHS III is DOI's central cloud processing and data solution.  

Work Location: Remote  

What You Will Do: 

• Participate in root cause analysis of system incidents. 

• Respond to and resolve tickets in the operations support queue in a timely and efficient manner, ensuring issues are tracked, documented, and closed according to SLAs. 

• Use tools such as AWS CloudFormation, GitLab and GitLab Runners to respond to support requests to manage and maintain AWS infrastructure, including EC2, RDS, S3, ELB, VPC, IAM Roles and Policies, Security Groups and related services. 

• Automate routine operational tasks to improve system reliability, security monitoring and configuration management using AWS step functions, lambda functions, SSM documents, AWS EventBridge, SNS, SQS using scripting languages such as python, bash and powershell. 

• Implement configuration management solutions (e.g., Ansible, Chef, or AWS Systems Manager). 

• Set up and maintain observability tools (CloudWatch, DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, etc.) to monitor infrastructure and application performance. 

• Ensure security best practices (IAM policies, encryption, VPC design, secrets management) and compliance with organizational standards. 

• Analyze and optimize AWS cloud costs without compromising performance or scalability. 

• Work cross-functionally with customer DevOps engineers, attend weekly team meetings and report status on open tickets and DevOps assignments. 

Basic Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of professional experience, or a Master’s degree and 3 years of professional experience, or a high school diploma/equivalent and 9 years of professional experience.

• U.S. Citizenship required; must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance; all work must be performed within the United States.

• Strong hands-on experience designing, deploying, and managing cloud-based solutions using core AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, CloudFormation, and IAM for secure and scalable infrastructure. 

• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, GitLab, GitLab Runners, or other third-party tools to automate application deployments. 

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, or AWS CDK to automate cloud resource provisioning and configuration management. 

• Experience with Python, Bash, AWS CLI, or other scripting languages to automate deployments, streamline workflows, troubleshoot issues, and resolve operational challenges within AWS environments. 

• Candidate must have at least one of the following certifications or be able to attain within 90 Days: AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate, AWS Certified Developer – Associate, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field strongly preferred. 

• One or more AWS Speciality Certification(s) such as AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Speciality, AWS Certified Security - Speciality, AWS AI Fundamentals. 

• Experience with incident management, root cause analysis, and resolving high-priority incidents in large, multi-tenant environments using Jira, Confluence, etc. 

• Exemplary communication, analytical skills, and technical knowledge across the client environment. 

• Ability to produce concise and clear technical documentation. 

• Experience working in an Agile environment 

• Experience in leveraging AI tools to accelerate workflows and code generation, and for producing concise and clear technical AI-assisted documentation. 

• Experience with using or supporting applications such as Dremio, Tableau, Posit and/or Nebari