2 days ago
Base Salary
$146k - $234k/yr
Responsibilities
- Operate the Agentic AI platform across CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, observability, and runtime reliability.
- Build and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions or GitLab CI, automated testing, quality gates, release controls, and rollback procedures.
- Operate Amazon EKS and Kubernetes environments, including upgrades, RBAC, Helm deployments, pod identity, troubleshooting, and GitOps workflows.
- Build and manage AWS infrastructure using services including VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, CloudTrail, and KMS.
- Provision and manage infrastructure with OpenTofu or Terraform and administer identity, SSO, access controls, and provisioning workflows.
- Develop monitoring, logging, alerting, service health indicators, SLO-aligned thresholds, and synthetic or transactional monitoring.
- Assess logs and security events, remediate IAVM notices and vulnerabilities, and produce compliance evidence.
- Implement DAST, runtime security testing, secrets management, least-privilege controls, and software supply chain security.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and 12 years of professional experience, associate's degree and 14 years, master's degree and 10 years, or high school diploma/equivalent and 16 years.
- Hands-on experience building CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or comparable systems, including reusable workflows and security gates.
- Production Kubernetes experience, preferably with Amazon EKS, including cluster upgrades, RBAC, Helm, and workload troubleshooting.
- Practical AWS experience with VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, CloudTrail, and KMS.
- Infrastructure-as-code experience with OpenTofu, Terraform, or comparable tools.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, identity and access management, and security testing such as SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets scanning, or dependency scanning.
- Scripting and automation skills in Python, Go, Bash, or comparable languages.
- Knowledge of secrets management, least-privilege design, software supply chain integrity, and modern delivery patterns.
- U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
- Preferred qualifications include Amazon EKS at scale, GitOps, DAST and runtime security tools, SLI/SLO practices, policy-as-code, SBOM and image signing, federal compliance, observability, relevant certifications, and AI/ML platform experience.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, health savings account, short- and long-term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off, and company-paid holidays.
- Position is based in Reston, Virginia.
- The application period is estimated at 30 days from the posting date, subject to business needs and candidate availability.
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About Peraton
Peraton builds and integrates mission systems, cyber, space, and intelligence solutions for U.S. defense, intelligence, and civil agencies. It delivers enterprise IT, satellite and terrestrial communications, and spectrum management under government contracts. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Reston, Virginia and is privately held by Veritas Capital.