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Cloud Systems Administrator

2025-160799

CAtegory:

Information Technology

Clearance:

Top Secret/SCI with Poly

Location:

Fort Meade
,
Maryland

Telecommute:

No remote/telework allowed
About Peraton

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.

Program Overview
Provides IC data management support to modernize mega data repositories, dataflow management, data provenance and compliance validation, and streaming solutions.
About The Role

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: (1) monitoring system health, (2) troubleshooting/escalating system problems, (3) maintaining storage systems, (4) interfacing with external teams and other parts of the Operations team for hardware, network, and infrastructure support, (5) ensuring system security requirements are satisfied, and (6) administering user accounts.

 

  • Basic understanding of low-level network concepts including vlans, port channel bonding and layer 2/layer 3 switch interactions
  • Experience demonstrating a fundamental understanding and working knowledge of core components of the Linux operating system including the management of user and group accounts in LDAP configuration of DHCP, DNS, and TFTP
  • Experience with configuration management tools including Puppet, Ansible, and SALT
  • Experience performing system administration and monitoring large distributed system consisting of multiple clusters, clustering implemented across at least three racks of equipment, and a minimum of 60 nodes per site
  • Experience writing software scripts using bash, perl, python or a similar language
  • Experience with Kubernetes orchestration services and Docker images
  • Experience diagnosing and troubleshooting large-scale cloud computing systems including familiarity with distributed systems for storage and retrieval of data e.g. Hadoop, CASSANDRA, SCALITY, SWIFT, Gluster, Lustre, GPFS, Amazon S3, or another comparable technology
Qualifications

The selected candidate will belong to an approximately fifteen-person shift team. Candidate will be responsible for supporting several cloud-based repositories during the evening (2pm-12am) or midnight (10pm-8am) shift.

 

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics and 5+ years of experience is required; an additional four years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
  • Active TS/SCI with Polygraph level clearance is required.
  • Must be willing and able to support one of the shifts mentioned in the responsibilities section.
  • 5 years' experience demonstrating a fundamental understanding and working knowledge of core components of the Linux operating system including the management of user and group accounts in LDAP configuration of DHCP, DNS, and TFTP.
  • 5 years' experience writing software scripts using scripting languages including bash, perl, or pyth
  • 3 years' of experience performing system administration and monitoring large distributed system consisting of: Multiple clusters, clustering implemented across at least 3 racks of equipment, minimum of 60 nodes per site.
  • 5 years' experience writing software scripts using scripting languages including bash, perl, or python.
  • Security+ certification is required (8570)
  • One of the following certifications are also required:
    • AWS Certified SysOps Administrator---Associate
    • AWS DevOps Engineer Professional
    • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Benefits:

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and eligibility to participate in an attractive bonus plan.

SCA / Union / Intern Rate or Range

Details

Target Salary Range: $135,000 - $216,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.