4 days ago
Laurel, MD, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$146k - $234k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and sustain continuous delivery pipelines for production applications in AWS.
- Develop and maintain Terraform and Ansible Infrastructure as Code solutions for provisioning, configuration management, and lifecycle operations.
- Build, optimize, and troubleshoot GitLab pipelines for Python- and Java-based application deployments.
- Automate Linux system administration and operations across Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Amazon Linux environments.
- Deploy and maintain containerized applications using Docker and/or Podman.
- Develop software automation, operational tooling, and test frameworks using Python.
- Manage Ansible playbooks, roles, collections, and custom plugins for enterprise-scale automation.
- Support distributed cloud environments with an emphasis on availability, reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.
- Implement automated validation, security, compliance, and testing workflows for Infrastructure as Code deployments.
- Conduct fault-injection, chaos engineering, and resiliency testing to validate system stability and recovery.
- Monitor system health, analyze performance trends, perform root cause analysis, and implement corrective actions.
- Collaborate with software developers, cloud engineers, cybersecurity teams, and system architects.
Requirements
- At least 11 years of experience in software development or engineering, including requirements analysis, development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement, maintenance, testing, and problem diagnosis or resolution.
- At least seven years of experience in systems engineering or architecture.
- At least seven years of experience with products supporting highly distributed, massively parallel computation, such as HBase, Hadoop, Accumulo, Bigtable, Cassandra, or Scality.
- At least seven years of experience writing software automation scripts using Perl, Python, or Ruby.
- At least three years of experience managing and monitoring large cloud systems exceeding 1,000 nodes.
- Active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph.
- One listed certification is required: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate, AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional, or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer.
- A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field is highly desired and may be considered equivalent to two years of experience.
- A master's degree in a technical field may be considered equivalent to four years of experience.
Benefits
- Heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for employees and dependents on critical National Security programs.
- 25 days of PTO accrued annually, subject to a PTO cap.
- Eligibility for an attractive bonus plan.
- Eligible employees may receive medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short- and long-term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off, and company-paid holidays.
- The application period is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date, subject to business needs and candidate availability.
Tech Stack
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
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.