External Title Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

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.

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Peraton is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to support enterprise cloud and infrastructure initiatives within a collaborative, high-performing systems engineering team. This role involves designing, building, deploying, and maintaining cloud and on-premise infrastructure using modern automation and configuration management practices. The engineer will contribute to system lifecycle activities including development, integration and test, deployment, and operations.

What you’ll do:

• Support system lifecycle activities across development, integration and test, deployment, and operations.
• Build and maintain highly available, high-performance networked systems in a team-oriented environment.
• Deploy cloud instances and applications, leveraging automation tools to streamline processes and improve efficiency.
• Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks for automated deployment and system patching within large-scale environments.
• Create systems engineering documentation including concepts of operation, requirements, specifications, and interface documents.
• Assist with system planning, scaling, and design activities.
• Support infrastructure-related trade studies.

Required Qualifications:

• Associate’s degree in engineering, Computer Technology or related field and 7+ years of experience; OR bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Technology or related field and 5+ years of experience; OR master’s degree in engineering, Computer Technology or related field and 3+ years of experience. An additional four (4) years of equivalent experience in lieu of a degree will be considered
• This position requires the candidatetopossessa minimum of Top-Secret clearance with the ability to obtain TS/SCI. The candidate mustmaintainthe clearance.
• Proficiency with Linux and Windows operating systems, including building and configuring systems from scratch, troubleshooting system functionality, and leveraging automation tools where possible.
• Experience installing, configuring, and deploying services following industry-standard security and authentication practices.
• Experience creating, modifying, and troubleshooting Ansible playbooks for configuration and sustainment activities.
• Experience using scripting languages such as Bash, Ansible, or Python for automation across physical and/or virtual hosts.
• Experience using Git for collaboration, configuration management tracking, and code review.
• Experience creating and updating process documentation related to infrastructure deployments and system sustainment.
• Experience integrating hosts and applications with Identity and Access Management (IDAM) systems such as Active Directory, FreeIPA, or similar.
• Experience deploying and troubleshooting PKI infrastructure and PKI-related issues.
• Experience with RHEL 8.x or similar Linux OS, including system build, package installation, configuration, and troubleshooting.
• Experience troubleshooting issues…