Cloud Integration & Automation Engineer

Cloud Integration & Automation Engineer

Job Location s: US-VA-Chantilly

Peraton is seeking a Cloud Integration & Automation Engineer in our Chantilly, VA office in support of our DoD customer as part of a highly talented, highly motivated and high-performing team. As a Dev Ops and Automation expert responsible for guiding tenants from an approved architecture into an operational environment, your focus is on ensuring tenants implement resilient solutions by leveraging Open Stack-native Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), Ansible, and robust CI/CD pipelines.

Join us and be part of the next generation of innovators as we blaze a trail forward for our profession and company.

What you’ll do:

• RHOSP Integration & Resiliency
  • Collaborate directly with tenant development teams to design and implement CI/CD pipelines that automate the provisioning and deployment of their workloads onto RHOSP within our system private cloud infrastructure.
  • Develop and maintain modular Open Stack IaC templates using Heat and general automation with Ansible to codify the private cloud's reference architectures.
  • Ensure all tenant deployments incorporate cloud resiliency principles tailored to Open Stack, such as utilizing Nova availability zones and Cinder volume groups.
• RHEL/OS Security and Compliance Automation
  • Guide tenants on configuring user management, key pairs, and security groups within RHOSP and applying security hardening best practices on their tenant-level RHEL instances.
• Integrate automated configuration management (Ansible) for tenant OS deployments.
• Collaborate with program system architects and engineers along with our government customer.
• Maintain partnership with Red Head vendor to stay up to date with the latest advancements in Red Hat products and industry best practices to maintain effective and innovative infrastructures.

Required qualifications:

• This position requires the candidate to possess a minimum of Top-Secret clearance with the ability to obtain TS/SCI. The candidate must maintain the clearance.
• Associates degree and 10+ years of experience in a systems engineering related field; or bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field and 8+ years of experience in a systems engineering related field; or a master’s degree in computer science, cloud computing, or related field and 6+ years of experience in a systems engineering related field. Four (4) years of relevant experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Meet DoD 8140 foundational requirements for a System Developer with a proficiency of advanced.
• 4+ years of hands‑on experience in a Dev Ops or Automation Engineering role in a cloud environment.
• Strong, hands‑on experience with Red Hat Open Stack Platform (RHOSP) APIs and services.
• Expert level proficiency with Ansible (for both infrastructure and configuration management) and experience with Open Stack Heat templates.
• Strong skills in scripting languages such as Python (specifically for Open Stack SDK interaction).
• Proficiency in Linux systems administration, cloud computing, and virtualization, with a strong understanding of both public and private cloud environments.
• Strong communication and organizational skills in coordination with customers / tenants.

Desired

Qualifications:

• Certifications:
  
  Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) or equivalent is highly preferred.
• Hands‑on experience with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and demonstrable experience with Open Shift Container Platform.
• A solid grasp of enterprise networking, firewalls, and security best practices.
• Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills to troubleshoot complex issues and optimize performance.
• Ability to learn independently, adapt to an evolving environment, and stay current with industry trends.

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and eligible to participate in an attractive bonus plan.

Peraton is a next‑generation national security company…