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Dept of Homeland Security
$112,000 - $179,000
Unspecified
Remote/Hybrid• (Off-Site/Hybrid)
About Peraton
Peraton 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 solve the most daunting challenges that our customers face. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.
Program Overview
Peraton supports development, modernization, and migration in support of a government multi-cloud environment with 50+ customer tenants and growing.
About The Role
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:
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
SCA / Union / Intern Rate or Range
Details
Target Salary Range: $112,000 - $179,000. 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: Peraton 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.
Application Duration Statement: The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.
EEO:Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.
Peraton 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 solve the most daunting challenges that our customers face. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.
Program Overview
Peraton supports development, modernization, and migration in support of a government multi-cloud environment with 50+ customer tenants and growing.
About The Role
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
Qualifications
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 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
SCA / Union / Intern Rate or Range
Details
Target Salary Range: $112,000 - $179,000. 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: Peraton 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.
Application Duration Statement: The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.
EEO:Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.
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