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The ideal candidate brings deep hands-on infrastructure expertise and understands how to engineer reliable, scalable, and consistent solutions across cloud, on-premises, and restricted deployment environments.\nAs part of a highly technical engineering team, you will help build and operate hybrid infrastructure, support growing tenant environments, troubleshoot complex platform issues, and contribute to the reliability, resiliency, and performance of mission-critical systems.\nKey Responsibilities\nCloud & Platform Engineering\nDesign, deploy, configure, and operate AWS infrastructure supporting shared services, mission hosting, and tenant environments.\n\nDeploy, configure, and operate Kubernetes and container platforms, including EKS or comparable technologies.\n\nEngineer and support compute, storage, load balancing, DNS, ingress, egress, and supporting platform services.\n\nEvaluate and support workload placement decisions based on mission, security, performance, connectivity, and operational requirements.\n\nDevelop and maintain scalable, repeatable infrastructure patterns across diverse deployment environments.\n\nHybrid Infrastructure\nIntegrate cloud environments with on-premises and restricted-network infrastructure.\n\nMaintain common platform patterns where practical while accounting for the unique requirements and constraints of different deployment environments.\n\nSupport backup, recovery, resiliency, capacity, patching, and platform lifecycle activities.\n\nTroubleshoot complex infrastructure issues spanning cloud, Kubernetes, storage, networking, and operating systems.\n\nSupport the reliability, scalability, and operational performance of production infrastructure across hybrid environments.\n\nTenant & Shared-Service Support\nSupport standardized tenant infrastructure and reusable environment patterns.\n\nPartner with Infrastructure-as-Code engineers to ensure infrastructure can be provisioned and maintained through controlled, repeatable automation.\n\nSupport platform services including identity, CI/CD, observability, repositories, and mission-hosting dependencies.\n\nParticipate in Tier 3/4 troubleshooting and escalation for complex infrastructure and application-platform issues.\n\nParticipate in scheduled maintenance, infrastructure upgrades, and ongoing platform lifecycle activities.\n\nSupport on-call responsibilities for production infrastructure and platform services.\n\nLocation: This position is fully onsite in Chantilly, VA.\nQualifications\nRequired Qualifications\nActive TS/SCI clearance with CI Polygraph.\n\n8 years' minimum with a BS/BA, 10 years' with an AS/AA, 12 years' may be considered in lieu of a degree.\n8+ years of experience in cloud, infrastructure, platform, or systems engineering.\n\nStrong hands-on experience with AWS.\n\nStrong Kubernetes and container-platform experience.\n\nExperience with Linux, networking, storage, load balancing, and production infrastructure.\n\nExperience supporting hybrid cloud and on-premises environments.\n\nStrong troubleshooting skills across infrastructure and application-platform dependencies.\n\nAbility to work effectively across multiple technical disciplines and environments.\n\nDesired Qualifications\nExperience with one or more of the following is beneficial:\nAWS GovCloud, C2S, SC2S, Secret/Top Secret cloud, or comparable classified cloud environments.\n\nEKS, OpenShift, or comparable Kubernetes platforms.\n\nIstio or a comparable service mesh technology.\n\nTerraform, CloudFormation, or other Infrastructure-as-Code technologies.\n\nDisconnected or restricted-network environments.\n\nLarge-scale, multi-tenant Kubernetes platforms.\n\nAWS cost and capacity optimization experience.\n\nExperience supporting standardized infrastructure patterns across multiple deployment environments.\n\nPeraton Overview\nPeraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. 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