External Title Senior Hybrid Cloud​/Kubernetes Engineer

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.

• 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.

Location:

This position is fully onsite in Chantilly, VA.

• 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 Gov Cloud, C2S, SC2S, Secret/Top Secret cloud
  , or comparable classified cloud environments.

• EKS, Open Shift
  , or comparable Kubernetes platforms.

• Istio or a comparable service mesh technology.

• Terraform, Cloud Formation
  , 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.

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…