IT Infrastructure Cloud Engineer

Peraton is hiring a IT Infrastructure Cloud Engineer to support critical missions within its Risk Decision Group.

This is a 100% Remote position.

Key Responsibilities:

• Designs, develops, and implements cloud-based solutions.
• Designs cloud architecture and completes plans and specifications to develop solutions.
• Collaborates with product managers and engineers to develop specifications for new cloud-based products/services, applications, and solutions.
• Drives the roll-out of cloud management platforms, evaluates its performance and implements enhancements.
• Develops and enriches the product portfolio of cloud services and value-added services.
• Creates solution recommendations to include Basis of Estimate for cloud services.
• Evaluates the cost/benefit of cloud vs. virtual private networks vs. dedicated hosting vs. in house solutions and identifying portions of the organization’s IT platform/infrastructure with the highest potential return for cloud deployment.
• Performs operations and maintenance of secure managed cloud platform solutions.
• Implements and maintains automation to enhance operation, alerting, and auto remediation of events.
• Develops, maintains, and deploys infrastructure as code using CI/CD pipelines.
• Assist in the managing and support of enterprise Office 365 suite, including Azure AD, Exchange Online, OneDrive, Purview, SharePoint, Teams, and Intune.
• Administer policies, monitor system performance, and ensure security best practices (DOD STIGS).
• Migrate OnPrem applications to cloud using.

Required Qualifications:

• 3 years with BS/BA;6 years with no degree
• 3 years working with cloud environments (AWS,Azure,O365) with BS/BA (Equivalent experience subsititued in lieu of degree) 
• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a T5/SSBI federally adjudicated clearance
• Expierience administering an OnPrem windows environement
• Proficiency in AWS/Azure
• Strong Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code and cloud automation tools
• Exerience with containerization (Docker,Kubernetes)
• Solid understanding of networking concepts, security, and cloud cost optimization
• Scripting knowledge (Python, Bash, Powershell)
• 3+ years working in cloud environments (AWS,Azure,o365)

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years working in cloud environments (AWS,Azure,O365); with BS/BA
• Effective communicator capable of tailoring presentations for both technical and non-technical audiences
• Cloud certification (AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Adminstrator Associate or similar)
• Experience with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or Cloudwatch
• Background in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

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