Peraton is seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Lead Automation Architect to join our Team. This role owns the target state architecture for automation, makes and documents the design decisions that realize it, leads architecture reviews across the portfolio, and drives process analysis to identify and prioritize automation opportunities. The position ensures automation solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned to business strategy.
Work Location: This is a remote position
What You Will Do:
- Provide Technical Direction: Mentor architects and engineers, lead cross-functional design sessions, and communicate architectural direction to both technical and executive audiences.
- Define and maintain the target-state automation architecture, establishing standards, patterns, and technology roadmaps aligned with business and mission objectives.
- Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of secure automation solutions across Federal Financial environments, including air-gapped infrastructure and AWS GovCloud.
- Develop and enforce Infrastructure as Code (IaC) strategies using Ansible, Ansible Tower/AWX, and related automation technologies.
- Architect and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, enabling repeatable, secure, and reliable infrastructure deployment and configuration processes.
- Lead architecture reviews and technical design sessions across the portfolio, documenting key decisions, tradeoffs, dependencies, and implementation standards.
- Analyze existing infrastructure and operational processes to identify, prioritize, and roadmap automation opportunities that improve efficiency, reliability, and scalability.
- Design automation for server provisioning, configuration, patching, lifecycle management, and decommissioning across RHEL and Windows Server environments
Basic Qualifications
- U.S. Citizenship required with the ability to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust level clearance.
- Bachelors Degree and 16 years of experience, or a High School diploma or equivalent and 20 years of experience
- 15+ years building and automating secure infrastructure across Federal Financial programs
- Specializes in Infrastructure as Code with Ansible
- Experience with CI/CD pipeline engineering with Jenkins
- Continuous monitoring with Splunk for RHEL and Windows Server systems in air-gapped and AWS GovCloud environments
- Experience with Ansible/Ansible Tower/AWX
- Proven experience in Linux and Windows server administration
- Experience in automating decommission/provisioning workflows
- Must be willing to undergo a pre-employment credit check as required by the Customer
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Service Now and ARIA
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 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.
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. EEOEEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.Skills Required
- U.S. citizenship
- Ability to obtain and maintain Public Trust clearance
- Bachelor’s degree and 16 years of experience, or high school diploma/equivalent and 20 years of experience
- 15+ years building and automating secure infrastructure across Federal Financial programs
- Specialization in Infrastructure as Code with Ansible
- Experience with CI/CD pipeline engineering using Jenkins
- Continuous monitoring with Splunk for RHEL and Windows Server systems in air-gapped and AWS GovCloud environments
- Experience with Ansible, Ansible Tower, or AWX
- Proven Linux and Windows server administration experience
- Experience automating decommissioning and provisioning workflows
- Willingness to undergo a pre-employment credit check
- Experience with ServiceNow and ARIA
Peraton Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Peraton and has not been reviewed or approved by Peraton.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare offerings are described as broad, including medical, dental, vision, mental health support, and specialty programs like virtual physical therapy and surgical/cancer care navigation. Medical coverage is also characterized as a standout part of the overall package in terms of perceived quality.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support includes a 401(k) with employer matching and is repeatedly positioned as a strong component of total rewards. The 401(k) benefit is frequently singled out as one of the most valued parts of the package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits are positioned as robust, including PTO, holidays, paid sick days, and floating holidays, with some roles offering notably generous accrual. Leave breadth is reinforced by related programs such as short/long-term disability and bereavement leave.
Peraton Insights
What We Do
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 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.
Why Work With Us
We are fearlessly solving the world’s most complex challenges to keep people safe and secure. You can be a part of protecting and promoting that freedom around the world.
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