Systems Engineer; Jira - Linux - Automation

Position: Application Systems Engineer (Jira - Linux - Automation)
Peraton Overview 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  to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Responsibilities Peraton is seeking a mid-Level Enterprise Applications Engineer in Chantilly, VA to support our Department of Defense (DoD) customer as part of a highly talented, motivated, and high‑performing team. In this role, you will serve as a Database Engineer supporting the design, development, automation, and sustainment of technologies hosted on a complex, cloud-based infrastructure environment. You will partner across all support tiers, O&M, and development teams to enhance enterprise capability, including Jira and Confluence.

Your contributions will directly support the mission success of our government customer and a wide range of tenant stakeholders. Join us and help drive the next generation of innovation as we advance critical capabilities across the space domain mission area.

Responsibilities:

Collaborate with internal and external partners to define requirements, design automated solutions, and validate customizations across the enterprise service portfolio

Build and operate automated environments for Jira, Confluence, and other enterprise services developing Ansible playbooks to standardize configuration, deployment, and patching within the cloud environment to meet evolving business and mission requirements

Design, configure, and customize collaboration spaces and service components using macros, widgets, extensions, and native platform tools to support workflow automation and team-specific processes

Automate routine administration into repeatable, version-controlled, and to reduce manual effort and prevent configuration drift across supported services

Support Configuration Management for Jira, Confluence, and other service environments by documenting changes, testing in sandbox environments, and ensuring compliant, consistent updates

Develop and maintain workflows and process configurations across Jira and other supported services to enforce consistent, automated task execution

Assign and manage secure, role-based access controls (RBAC) across Jira, Confluence, and other enterprise applications

Stage and validate offline packages, updates, and repositories for deployment across the environment

Implement permission models, notification schemes, screens, and other configuration changes across supported services with a focus on consistency and maintainability

Evaluate, manage, and deploy add-ons and platform extensions across multiple enterprise services

Administer and sustain RHEL: patch, break-fix, restore, and supply hardening inputs to the security team Operate the backing database (PostgreSQL preferred): run backups, apply patches, monitor health, and test restores on a defined cadence

Troubleshoot across the full stack this role owns, from the application down through the OS and database

Qualifications

Required Skills A bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, or a related field with 5+ years of experience; OR a Master's degree with 3+…