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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.\nResponsibilities\nPeraton 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.\nThe 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.\nWork Location: Remote\nWhat You Will Do:\nParticipate in root cause analysis of system incidents. \nRespond 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. \nUse 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. \nAutomate 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. \nImplement configuration management solutions (e.g., Ansible, Chef, or AWS Systems Manager). \nSet up and maintain observability tools (CloudWatch, DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, etc.) to monitor infrastructure and application performance. \nEnsure security best practices (IAM policies, encryption, VPC design, secrets management) and compliance with organizational standards. \nAnalyze and optimize AWS cloud costs without compromising performance or scalability. \nWork cross-functionally with customer DevOps engineers, attend weekly team meetings and report status on open tickets and DevOps assignments. \nQualifications\nBasic Qualifications:\nBachelor’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.\n\nU.S. Citizenship required; must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance; all work must be performed within the United States.\n\nStrong 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. \nExperience 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. \nExperience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, or AWS CDK to automate cloud resource provisioning and configuration management. \nExperience with Python, Bash, AWS CLI, or other scripting languages to automate deployments, streamline workflows, troubleshoot issues, and resolve operational challenges within AWS environments. \nCandidate 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. \nPreferred Qualifications:\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field strongly preferred. \nOne or more AWS Speciality Certification(s) such as AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Speciality, AWS Certified Security - Speciality, AWS AI Fundamentals. \nExperience with incident management, root cause analysis, and resolving high-priority incidents in large, multi-tenant environments using Jira, Confluence, etc. \nExemplary communication, analytical skills, and technical knowledge across the client environment. \nAbility to produce concise and clear technical documentation. \nExperience working in an Agile environment \nExperience in leveraging AI tools to accelerate workflows and code generation, and for producing concise and clear technical AI-assisted documentation. \nExperience with using or supporting applications such as Dremio, Tableau, Posit and/or Nebari \nTarget Salary Range\n$86,000 - $138,000. 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.Benefits Statement\nPeraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.\nApplication Statements\nThe application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. 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