Senior Cloud Administrator

Peraton is seeking an experienced and detail-oriented Senior Cloud Administrator to support the DOI USGS Permitting Modernization and Cloud Infrastructure program on the WARP platform. In this fully remote hands-on role you will serve as the day-to-day operational owner of the AWS cloud infrastructure supporting a diverse development workforce of 50+ engineers, 20 business analysts, and Government personnel across fully separated development, testing, staging, and production environments. You will manage AWS Marketplace subscriptions, enforce Government-directed security controls, monitor environment health, and serve as the primary point of contact for AWS support escalations. Operating in a strict FedRAMP Moderate federal environment, you will ensure platform availability, access integrity, and security compliance playing a foundational role in the success of one of DOI's most significant technology modernization programs.

Peraton supports the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in modernizing the federal permitting process through the Permitting Modernization and Cloud Infrastructure program. At the heart of this initiative is the WARP platform (Workflows, Authorizations, Registrations, and Permits), a cloud-native AWS environment purpose-built to streamline and accelerate how the federal government processes permits, authorizations, and registrations. The program leverages cutting-edge cloud infrastructure, AI-assisted decision support, and advanced data engineering to serve a large, distributed team of developers, business analysts, and Government stakeholders. Peraton's role spans the full lifecycle of cloud operations from provisioning and managing secure multi-environment AWS infrastructure and AI/ML services to delivering workforce training and certification, all within a rigorous federal compliance framework including FedRAMP, FISMA, and NIST security standards.

Work Location: Remote

What You Will Do:  

• Administer and maintain all AWS cloud environments (dev, test, staging, production) for the WARP permitting platform, ensuring availability, performance, and security at all times.
• Manage AWS Marketplace subscriptions, including procurement, provisioning, renewal, and decommissioning of approved runtime subscriptions for permitting and development workloads.
• Monitor environment health and performance using AWS CloudWatch and other observability tools; triage and remediate alerts, incidents, and service disruptions in a timely manner.
• Manage AWS support tickets and coordinate with AWS technical teams to resolve platform-level issues, service limits, and infrastructure anomalies.
• Control and manage consumption throttling for compute, storage, AI/ML, and data services to prevent budget overruns, in coordination with the FinOps Cloud Engineer.
• Administer data operations: cross-AZ/cross-region data transfer, AWS KMS key management, CloudTrail audit logging, centralized S3 log archival, and AWS Backup configurations.
• Manage Databricks cluster provisioning, storage, and networking within the DOI-designated environment.
• Administer user access and personnel tracking for all contractor and Government personnel accessing DOI systems; immediately notify the COR upon any personnel departure or role change.
• Execute and maintain required security agreements, non-disclosure agreements, and DOI Rules of Behavior documentation for all personnel with unsupervised USGS system access.
• Assist in maintaining C&A documentation, contingency plans (per NIST SP 800-34), and security assessment support materials.
• Perform all system administration duties within Government-designated environments exclusively; no Peraton-owned storage or systems used for Government data.
• Complete mandatory annual DOI IT Security Awareness Training and maintain compliance with all applicable DOI, FISMA, and FedRAMP security policies.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree and 10 years professional experience or a Masters degree and 8 years professional experience or an Associates degree and 12 years professional experience; or a high school diploma/equivalent and 14 years’ professional experience. 
• U.S. Citizenship required; must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
• Must perform all work within the United States; no international work permitted under this contract.
• 5 plus years of hands-on system or cloud administration experience, with at least 3 years in AWS environments.
• Demonstrated experience administering multi-environment AWS cloud platforms (dev/test/staging/prod) at enterprise or federal scale.
• Proficiency with AWS core services: EC2, S3, Lambda, Fargate, ECS/EKS, VPC, AWS Backup.
• Hands-on experience with implementing and enforcing IAM policies, SCPs, Service Quotas, and access governance in AWS Organizations.
• Hands-on experience with AWS KMS, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, and centralized log archival to S3.
• Experience managing AWS Marketplace subscriptions and procurement workflows.
• Knowledge of Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practices, least-privilege principles, and federated identity management.
• Understanding of ETL pipelines and data platform operations within cloud environments.
• Familiarity with Databricks cluster administration, including compute, storage, and networking configuration.
• Familiarity with AWS Organizations, tag policies, service quota management, and multi-account governance.
• Familiarity with DOI security policies, incident reporting requirements, and C&A processes.
• Familiarity with NIST SP 800-34 (contingency planning) and NIST SP 800-64 (SDLC security integration).
• Ability to create and maintain system documentation, runbooks, contingency plans, and incident response records.
• Prior experience working in or administering FedRAMP Moderate or higher cloud environments.
• Experience managing AWS support relationships, escalating technical issues, and driving resolution with cloud vendors.
• One or more of the following certifications (or able to obtain with 90 days):
• AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience on a DOI, USGS, or other Department of Interior program.
• Experience administering Databricks workspaces in a federated, multi-team environment.
• Experience with SIEM tools or centralized security monitoring platforms.
• Experience with NIST SP 800-37 Risk Management Framework (RMF) processes.
• Working knowledge of FISMA, FedRAMP, and NIST SP 800-53 security controls applicable to cloud platforms
• Working knowledge of DOI IT Systems Contingency Plan Guide and DOI Computer Incident Response Guide.
• Familiarity with Amazon Bedrock or LLM/AI platform administration.
• Familiarity with Section 508 accessibility requirements and accessibility testing tools.
• Background in supporting agile software development teams using GitLab or Atlassian toolsets (Jira, Confluence).