Cloud Operations & Engineering Team Lead

Responsibilities

Peraton is currently seeking skilled and qualified candidates for our Cloud Operations & Engineering Team Lead role to provide technical leadership for a team of five cloud engineers responsible for provisioning, operating, and maintaining the full breadth of infrastructure services across that estate. Peraton staff support a Cloud Business Office operating a large enterprise AWS environment - 500+ AWS accounts, along with a smaller Azure footprint - supporting a broad portfolio of enterprise workloads.

This is a team lead position, and it is a hands-on one. The person in this role sets team priorities, provides technical direction, and represents the team to stakeholders - while remaining personally in the environment doing the work. Expect roughly 50-60% hands-on engineering and operations, and 40-50% team leadership and coordination. This is not a role that directs from a distance.

The lead does not carry formal supervisory authority, but does have input into hiring, interviews, and performance feedback.

This position is 100% remote, working East Coast hours. This is an operations role; support needs may arise outside standard business hours.

Day to Day Responsibilities:

• Lead the day-to-day technical direction of the cloud engineering and operations team, including workload balancing across the account estate
• Scope and prioritize Service Now requests and changes, and Jira tasks, for provisioning, modifying, troubleshooting, and decommissioning cloud services
• Plan operational support activities - managed service patching, maintenance windows, cost optimization support - with stakeholder engagement
• Manage the team's on-call and escalation model, including severity definitions and escalation paths
• Identify recurring operational pain points and toil, and drive improvements to monitoring, automation, and operational process
• Advise on and improve team processes using cloud best practices and established team standards
• Coordinate with counterparts across the Cloud Business Office and other technical teams
• Communicate status, issues, risks, and concerns effectively to leadership
• Contribute to hiring, interviews, and performance feedback for the team
• Performs incident management and troubleshooting in an operations environment including stakeholder engagement for issue resolution
• Manages operations in cloud environments and ensure the high availability and performance of those environment
• Serves in the on-call and escalation rotation alongside the team, and personally leads technical bridges for incidents
• Performs root cause analysis and writes post-incident reports
• Executes deployments using the provided Terraform modules and pipelines - running plans, applying changes, and troubleshooting failed runs and state issues across the account estate
• Reads, troubleshoots, and maintains existing Cloud Formation stacks in legacy environments
• Provisions, configures, and operates infrastructure across a broad AWS service catalog, and grants and governs the permissions that allow application developers to work within their environments
• Manages full EC2 instance lifecycle: provisioning, resizing, AMI selection and refresh, snapshots, and replacement
• Provisions RDS instances and performs managed service patching and maintenance window planning
• Owns backup and recovery for provisioned resources using enterprise AWS Backup policies, including restore requests
• Administers AWS access management: authors IAM Identity Center permission sets and creates the group, account, and permission set assignments; manages the Entra s that SCIM into AWS; maintains roles, policies, and permission boundaries at scale
• Builds operational automation using Python/boto3 and Lambda to eliminate recurring manual toil - for example, resource inventory and reporting, and monitoring automation
• Evaluates and operationalizes new cloud services, tools, and technologies

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree with 12+ years experience
• Candidate must hold or be able to obtain Public Trust
• Candidate must be a US Citizen
• Five (5) years of experience in cloud technologies including Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, with an emphasis…