Job Requirements
Chantilly, VA
Top Secret/SCI CI Polygraph
Career Level not specified
$135,000 - $216,000
Job Description
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.
About The Role
We are seeking a Senior Hybrid Cloud / Kubernetes Engineer to design, build, operate, and sustain the cloud and on-premises infrastructure supporting platform services and mission-critical workloads in highly secure environments.
This role offers the opportunity to work across AWS classified environments, Kubernetes platforms, on-premises infrastructure, networking, storage, security controls, and tenant services. 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.
As 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.
Key Responsibilities
Cloud & Platform Engineering
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
Experience with one or more of the following is beneficial:
Details
Target Salary Range: $135,000 - $216,000. 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 Statements: 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. By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in the role and the Company. During the review of your application, you may be required to participate in an on-camera interview, as well as participate in a process to verify your identity. Use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools of any kind during Peraton interviews is strictly prohibited unless the candidate has obtained prior written authorization. All interview responses must be the candidate's own.
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.
About The Role
We are seeking a Senior Hybrid Cloud / Kubernetes Engineer to design, build, operate, and sustain the cloud and on-premises infrastructure supporting platform services and mission-critical workloads in highly secure environments.
This role offers the opportunity to work across AWS classified environments, Kubernetes platforms, on-premises infrastructure, networking, storage, security controls, and tenant services. 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.
As 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.
Key Responsibilities
Cloud & Platform Engineering
- Design, deploy, configure, and operate AWS infrastructure supporting shared services, mission hosting, and tenant environments.
- Deploy, configure, and operate Kubernetes and container platforms, including EKS or comparable technologies.
- Engineer and support compute, storage, load balancing, DNS, ingress, egress, and supporting platform services.
- Evaluate and support workload placement decisions based on mission, security, performance, connectivity, and operational requirements.
- Develop and maintain scalable, repeatable infrastructure patterns across diverse deployment environments.
- Integrate cloud environments with on-premises and restricted-network infrastructure.
- Maintain common platform patterns where practical while accounting for the unique requirements and constraints of different deployment environments.
- Support backup, recovery, resiliency, capacity, patching, and platform lifecycle activities.
- Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues spanning cloud, Kubernetes, storage, networking, and operating systems.
- Support the reliability, scalability, and operational performance of production infrastructure across hybrid environments.
- Support standardized tenant infrastructure and reusable environment patterns.
- Partner with Infrastructure-as-Code engineers to ensure infrastructure can be provisioned and maintained through controlled, repeatable automation.
- Support platform services including identity, CI/CD, observability, repositories, and mission-hosting dependencies.
- Participate in Tier 3/4 troubleshooting and escalation for complex infrastructure and application-platform issues.
- Participate in scheduled maintenance, infrastructure upgrades, and ongoing platform lifecycle activities.
- Support on-call responsibilities for production infrastructure and platform services.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Active TS/SCI clearance with CI Polygraph.
- 8 years' minimum with a BS/BA, 10 years' with an AS/AA, 12 years' may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- 8+ years of experience in cloud, infrastructure, platform, or systems engineering.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS.
- Strong Kubernetes and container-platform experience.
- Experience with Linux, networking, storage, load balancing, and production infrastructure.
- Experience supporting hybrid cloud and on-premises environments.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across infrastructure and application-platform dependencies.
- Ability to work effectively across multiple technical disciplines and environments.
Experience with one or more of the following is beneficial:
- AWS GovCloud, C2S, SC2S, Secret/Top Secret cloud, or comparable classified cloud environments.
- EKS, OpenShift, or comparable Kubernetes platforms.
- Istio or a comparable service mesh technology.
- Terraform, CloudFormation, or other Infrastructure-as-Code technologies.
- Disconnected or restricted-network environments.
- Large-scale, multi-tenant Kubernetes platforms.
- AWS cost and capacity optimization experience.
- Experience supporting standardized infrastructure patterns across multiple deployment environments.
Details
Target Salary Range: $135,000 - $216,000. 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 Statements: 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. By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in the role and the Company. During the review of your application, you may be required to participate in an on-camera interview, as well as participate in a process to verify your identity. Use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools of any kind during Peraton interviews is strictly prohibited unless the candidate has obtained prior written authorization. All interview responses must be the candidate's own.
EEO:Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.
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