{"id":1284388,"url":"https://alion.io/job/peraton-sr-aws-cloud-engineer-cloud-implementation-lead","title":"Sr. AWS Cloud Engineer / Cloud Implementation Lead","company":{"id":722,"name":"Peraton","domain":"peraton.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/peraton","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"iCIMS","truth_index":null},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":"lead","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":104000,"max":166000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":166000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Amazon CloudWatch","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon EC2","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon ECS","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon S3","optional":false},{"name":"API Gateway","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"AWS Fargate","optional":false},{"name":"AWS Lambda","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"CloudFormation","optional":false},{"name":"Databricks","optional":false},{"name":"FedRAMP","optional":false},{"name":"FinOps","optional":false},{"name":"IAM","optional":false},{"name":"NIST 800-171","optional":false},{"name":"NIST 800-53","optional":false},{"name":"PowerShell","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false},{"name":"VPN","optional":false},{"name":".NET","optional":true},{"name":"AWS Bedrock","optional":true},{"name":"C#","optional":true},{"name":"Microsoft Entra ID","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-26T04:11:50Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-26","last_verified_at":"2026-09-26T13:34:38Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":null,"days_open":2,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":2},"description":"Responsibilities\nPeraton is seeking a hands-on Senior AWS Cloud Engineer / Cloud Implementation Lead to support cloud implementation, governance, and modernization for the Risk Decision Group (RDG) cloud platform. This role will lead implementation of an AWS capability that helps assess, score, visualize, and improve cloud maturity, security posture, operational readiness, RMF/ATO readiness, and modernization progress across RDG cloud systems.\nThe initial focus for this role is AWS, but the long-term roadmap includes multi-cloud extensibility, including Azure and other enterprise data sources.\nThis is a hands-on delivery role including day-to-day operational tasks. The ideal candidate will build, document, troubleshoot, coordinate with stakeholders, support data ingestion workflows, and help scale an MVP into a repeatable cloud governance capability. This role will also help build the target-state cloud architecture across AWS (primary) and Azure (secondary), ensuring solutions meet FedRAMP Moderate security and compliance requirements.\nThis is a 100% remote position.\nResponsibilities\nLead day-to-day technical implementation of AWS-based cloud operations and deployment of applications and the MVP\nProvision and configure compute, storage, database, and other services using Infrastructure as Code (AWS CloudFormation and Terraform)\nDevelop and maintain pipeline automation for application and infrastructure deployments\nDesign and package applications using modern containerization and orchestration tooling\nConfigure logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting, applying SRE practices\nProduce cost-and-capacity reports using FinOps tooling\nProduce well-structured design documents, diagrams, and hand-over guides\nCreate, manage, and optimize AWS cloud environments and resources (e.g., security groups, VPCs, IAM roles)\nSupport AWS implementation using services such as S3, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Config, Security Hub, IAM, KMS, ECS/Fargate, Athena/Glue, QuickSight, or similar services\nWrite scripts to automate repetitive tasks (e.g., with Python, Bash, or PowerShell)\nImplement CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployments\nSupport API integrations and third-party service integrations, such as Databricks\nHelp containerize and package the capability so it can be deployed and expanded across multiple systems and customers\nDevelop technical documentation, onboarding guides, deployment notes, and implementation playbooks\nLead cloud migration and modernization efforts, including workload assessment, right-sizing, and cost optimization\nImplement cloud monitoring solutions to track the performance, availability, and health of applications and infrastructure\nRespond to incidents, troubleshoot issues, and provide support as necessary\nAnalyze logs, metrics, and cloud monitoring tools (e.g., CloudWatch) to troubleshoot and resolve performance bottlenecks\nWork closely with application developers, cyber, operations teams, and business stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver cloud solutions\nMonitor and optimize cloud resource usage to reduce costs while maintaining system performance\nQualifications\nRequired Qualifications\nUS citizenship required; ability to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret eligible clearance\nMinimum 8 years work experience with BS/BA in computer science, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent experience)\n8+ years of progressive experience in cloud infrastructure roles\n5+ years of experience in AWS cloud engineering or similar roles\nDeep hands-on expertise designing AWS solutions, including VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, networking/Transit Gateway, KMS, Organizations, Control Tower, PrivateLink, Direct Connect, and Site-to-Site VPN\n5+ years of scripting experience (Python, Bash, PowerShell)\nCloud development experience using Python is highly preferred\n3+ years of experience developing AWS policies as code (JSON)\n3+ years of experience with the AWS CLI\n2+ years of experience with AWS cloud-native security services such as GuardDuty, Security Hub, and Inspector\nDemonstrated experience architecting within FedRAMP Moderate (or FedRAMP High/DoD IL4-5 or similar compliance) environments, including familiarity with NIST 800-53 and NIST 800-171 control families\n2+ years of experience and strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar) and CI/CD pipelines\n3+ years of experience with cloud-native and serverless architectures (Lambda, API Gateway, microservices) and containerization\nPreferred Qualifications\nCertification: AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer - Associate\nCertification: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate\nExperience with Databricks implementation and support\nAzure Administrator Associate certification\nActive security clearance\nExperience with AWS AI services (Amazon Bedrock)\nExperience with hybrid/multi-cloud architecture, including Azure (VNets, Azure AD/Entra ID, Azure Policy, ExpressRoute)\nExperience with Microsoft .NET\nExperience supporting ATO/continuous monitoring processes\nFamiliarity with DevSecOps pipelines\nFamiliarity with AI security and governance frameworks, national security/defense/critical infrastructure missions, and supporting federal agencies or large GovCon programs\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. 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.\nTarget Salary Range\n$104,000 - $166,000. 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.EEO\nEEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6738,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":true},"security_clearance":true,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["National Security","Homeland Security"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-26T04:11:50Z"}],"liveness":{"score":74,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.826,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":2,"expected_fill_days":3,"reasons":["conf:40","velocity","win:mid","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-28T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":166000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/peraton-sr-aws-cloud-engineer-cloud-implementation-lead","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/peraton-sr-aws-cloud-engineer-cloud-implementation-lead.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-29T03:32:32Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3240,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":1760,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-30T00:00:00Z"}}}