Lead DevOps Automation Architect - Web Content Management (WCM)

Peraton is looking for a Lead DevOps Automation Architect to lead a team of engineers that is responsible for the design, implementation, and operations and maintenance (O&M) of the multi-tenant Web Content Management as a Service (WCMaaS) platform. This includes managing all aspects of the underlying infrastructure, such as servers and storage. The Lead Architect will work to continuously enhance the platform, leveraging secure, scalable, cost-effective, and operationally sustainable cloud solutions. Aside from technical qualifications, applicants should have effective communication skills, both written and verbal.

This role requires deep expertise in cloud services, infrastructure automation, DevSecOps, open-source ecosystems, enterprise solution design, and software and infrastructure engineering practices. The ideal candidate brings strong technical leadership, the ability to engage with a diverse set of stakeholders, and the ability to adapt solutions to evolving requirements and priorities.

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

Day to Day Roles and Responsibilities:

• Pipeline and infrastructure automation
  • Serve as automation expert relating to pipelines built and managed in a multi-GovCloud environment
  • Demonstrate pipeline orchestration tool experience relating to infrastructure as code (IaC)
  • Develop code using scripting and programming language
  • Investigate and resolve issues across existing pipelines
  • Perform root cause analysis to address underlying IaC issues and provide solutions to prevent recurrence.
• AWS Infrastructure Management
  • Build and maintain Linux infrastructure in AWS, including a deep working knowledge of using lambda functions. Demonstrate an in-depth understanding in all aspects of Cloud Development Platforms; including IT operations, virtualization, containerization, networking, storage, disaster recovery, security policy and controls implementation, system management, and data migration.
  • Push Drupal code via a GitLab CI/CD pipeline.
  • Build and manage Ansible playbooks for use in various automation processes.
    
  • Manage and maintain the AWS infrastructure, including a deep working knowledge of all aspects of Cloud Development Platforms including IT operations, virtualization, containerization, networking, storage, disaster recovery, security policy and controls implementation, system management, and data migration.
  • Ensure that all tenants’ AWS resources are secure, FedRAMP compliant, and optimized for performance
  • Demonstrates expertise in enterprise solution design, SOA models and approaches to enterprise cloud solutions, and promotion of architecture principles along with conducting research in specific technology areas and being up to date with the latest industry trends on application architecture.
  • Continuously optimizing AWS Cloud platform services across all integration points.
  • Independently apply a wide set of engineering disciplines for planning, design, analysis, coding, testing, roll-out and support of information systems architectures.
  • 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
  • Collaborate with other team engineers to resolve development issues/incidents and implement improvements
  • Document solution designs, process procedures, and lessons learned to enhance team knowledge
  • Provide technical mentorship and knowledge sharing to more junior engineers less familiar with pipeline and infrastructure automation

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Engineering, or IT related field of study and 12 years of experience or a Masters degree and 10 years of experience in an IT related field of study.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain/maintain a DHS Public Trust clearance.
• 10+ years of experience providing technical/management leadership on major tasks or technology assignments involving IT Operations
• 5+ years of experience in cloud services and infrastructure.
• 3+ years of extensive hands-on experience with automation involving a wide range of AWS services including but not limited to EC2 instances, S3 buckets, VPC configurations, RDS databases, and other services
• Must have extensive demonstrated knowledge in infrastructure architecture, server configuration, and management of Linux servers in AWS.
• Must have proven knowledge of Change and Configuration Management best practices (knowledge of DHS Change Management Processes preferred)
• Required Certification:
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
• Required pipeline and infrastructure automation experience:
  • Pipeline Orchestration tool experience required, with GitLab preferred
  • IaC experience required, with Terraform preferred
  • Config as Code is required, with Ansible preferred
  • Some PowerShell and bash scripting required
  • Python programming language required
• 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:

• Preferred Certifications:
  • 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