Base Salary
$135k - $216k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and manage GitLab CI/CD pipelines with reusable templates, shared runners, feature flags, environment gates, security scanning, and DORA metrics.
- Automate SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets scanning, container scanning, registry admission controls, and runtime protection.
- Operate OpenShift ROSA and Amazon EKS container platforms across AWS Commercial and GovCloud.
- Automate AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible/Ansible Tower, including configuration management, hardening, and patching.
- Engineer AWS networking, compute, storage, identity, load balancing, DNS, and monitoring services using least-privilege IAM.
- Lead Jenkins-to-GitLab migrations and establish standardized pipeline and GitOps patterns.
- Build Terraform modules, GitLab templates, onboarding workflows, and golden paths for developer self-service.
- Implement STIG, CIS, FedRAMP, FISMA, and DoD security and compliance requirements, including ATO and accreditation support.
- Manage AWS and Kubernetes IAM, RBAC, admission controls, pod security, network policies, and secrets management.
- Operate observability platforms and lead critical incident response, root-cause analysis, and reliability improvements.
- Lead transformation initiatives, establish engineering standards, review architecture, mentor engineers, and contribute to technical roadmaps and RFIs.
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust clearance.
- Bachelor’s degree with 12 years of experience, master’s degree with 10 years, or high school diploma/equivalent with 16 years.
- At least 8 years of AWS experience covering networking, IT security tooling, and databases.
- Hands-on expertise in DevSecOps, security automation, application development, integration, and release management.
- Experience establishing and maturing CI/CD toward progressive delivery.
- Experience building self-service developer onboarding or platform-as-a-product capabilities with Terraform and GitLab.
- Senior technical or advisory experience driving strategic change and digital adoption across business units.
- Experience supporting FedRAMP-, FISMA-, or DoD-accredited cloud environments.
- Leadership and communication skills for working with customers at all levels and managing critical-incident communications.
- Preferred: AWS Certified Solutions Architect—Professional, AWS Certified Security—Specialty, Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration, CKA or CKAD, and HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate.
- Preferred: experience obtaining or maintaining an ATO in a FedRAMP High environment.
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement.
- 8 a.m.–5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time shift schedule.
- Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.
Tech Stack
About Peraton
At Peraton, we're at the forefront of delivering the next big thing every day. We're the partner of choice to help solve some of the world's most daunting challenges, delivering bold, new solutions to keep people around the world safer and more secure. How do we do it? By thinking differently. We're not mired in the past. We look at all problems with fresh eyes. We look past the obvious to bring the best talent, tech, and ideas together to completely transform how things get done. So bring your unique ideas, your entrepreneurial spirit, and your drive to succeed and get ready to be part of something bigger. Get ready to do the can't be done. ________ Recruitment fraud is a growing trend where fraudsters have been known to attempt to use our name to trick job seekers with fake employment opportunities. This type of scam is typically carried out through fake job postings, fake websites, or email accounts claiming to be from Peraton. The intent of recruitment fraud is to gain access to your personal information, such as your banking information, credit card number, or social security number. Please be aware that our careers site can be found at careers.peraton.com and our corporate site can be found at peraton.com. To learn more about Recruitment fraud and what to expect and not to expect from a Peraton recruiter, please visit: https://careers.peraton.com/recruitment-fraud/