Peraton is seeking a Lead Cloud Architect to join a team responsible for the operational reliability and architecture of production systems running in AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud environments. Some system components are also deployed in Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The primary production workload runs on Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA).
This is a hands-on technical leadership role that combines cloud architecture, software engineering practices, and systems operations. The Lead Cloud Architect will design and implement scalable, secure, and reliable cloud solutions; define and monitor SLIs and SLOs; support application deployments and migrations across staging and production environments; and create and manage CI/CD pipelines. They will also lead incident response, drive automation to reduce operational toil, establish and promote cloud engineering best practices, and mentor junior Cloud Engineers.
This person partners closely with platform engineers, the security team, and application developers to ensure the infrastructure services are reliable, available, and deployed in a way that meets both developer and security requirements.
Location: Remote
Shift Schedule: 8am – 5pm Eastern Standard Time (EST)
What you will do:
- Own the reliability, availability, performance, and operational health of critical infrastructure services and applications, driving continuous improvement throughout their lifecycle.
- Lead complex production incidents and service recovery efforts, providing technical direction during high-impact events and driving thorough root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
- Define and continuously improve reliability objectives, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, service health metrics, and operational standards for infrastructure services and applications.
- Lead observability strategy in partnership with application teams, defining meaningful metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts and ensuring they are integrated into the organization's observability capabilities.
- Lead the operational lifecycle of deployed services, including releases, upgrades, patching, configuration changes, capacity management, maintenance, and technology refreshes.
- Identify and drive the resolution of systemic reliability risks, recurring failure modes, capacity constraints, technical debt, and other sources of operational risk.
- Design and lead resilience and recovery initiatives, including failure-mode analysis, performance and capacity testing, disaster recovery, backup and failover strategies, and recovery validation.
- Develop and advance automation and everything-as-code practices to improve consistency, reliability, deployment, recovery, and overall operational efficiency.
- Partner with Platform Engineering and application teams on architecture and design, defining operational and reliability requirements and influencing platform capabilities and application architectures.
- Mentor junior Cloud Architects and provide technical leadership by establishing best practices, improving operational processes, and advancing the organization's overall reliability engineering maturity.
Basic Qualifications:
- Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust level clearance.
- Bachelor's Degree and 12 years of experience, or Master's and 10 years of experience, or a High School diploma/equivalent and 16 years of experience.
- 7+ years hands-on experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, or production systems engineering.
- Extensive hands-on experience operating in AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud, including OpenShift (ROSA) or comparable Kubernetes-based platforms
- Deep infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform and Ansible / Ansible Tower.
- Advanced proficiency of GitLab and Jenkins CI/CD platforms, including reliability gating and deployment automation.
- Deep experience in Linux and Windows Server administration
- Substantial practical experience of implementing and managing enterprise observability tools such as Dynatrace, Datadog, Splunk and Open Telemetry.
- Ownership of an SLI/SLO and alerting program, including error budgets, alert rationalization, and noise reduction.
- Extensive scripting/automation proficiency in Python, Bash, PowerShell, or Go.
- Experience operating in federal or regulated environments (FISMA, FedRAMP, NIST 800-53).
Preferred Qualifications:
- AWS Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps Engineer, or AWS SysOps certification.
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in ROSA, Red Hat Certified Advanced System Administrator in OpenShift
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, GCP Professional Cloud Architect, or GCP Professional Cloud Developer certification
- Dynatrace Associate, Datadog Log Management Fundamentals certification
- GitLab CI/CD Associate certification, Certified Jenkins Engineer (CJE)
- Terraform Authoring and Operations Professional certification
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$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. EEOEEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.Skills Required
- U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust clearance
- Bachelor's degree and 12 years of experience, or master's degree and 10 years of experience, or high school diploma/equivalent and 16 years of experience
- At least 7 years of hands-on experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, or production systems engineering
- Hands-on experience operating AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud, including OpenShift ROSA or comparable Kubernetes platforms
- Deep infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform and Ansible or Ansible Tower
- Advanced proficiency with GitLab and Jenkins CI/CD platforms, including reliability gating and deployment automation
- Deep experience administering Linux and Windows Server environments
- Practical experience implementing and managing Dynatrace, Datadog, Splunk, and OpenTelemetry
- Experience owning SLI/SLO and alerting programs, including error budgets, alert rationalization, and noise reduction
- Extensive scripting and automation proficiency in Python, Bash, PowerShell, or Go
- Experience operating in federal or regulated environments using FISMA, FedRAMP, or NIST 800-53
- AWS Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps Engineer, or AWS SysOps certification
- Red Hat ROSA or OpenShift certification
- Azure or GCP professional cloud architecture/development certification
- Dynatrace, Datadog, GitLab, Jenkins, or Terraform certification
Peraton Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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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.
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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.
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