Base Salary
$104k - $166k/yr
Responsibilities
- Operate and maintain production infrastructure services and applications for availability, reliability, performance, security, and operational health.
- Monitor services using SLIs, SLOs, dashboards, alerts, metrics, logs, traces, and observability tools.
- Manage incidents and service disruptions, including on-call response, troubleshooting, service restoration, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions.
- Execute application and infrastructure releases through staging and production deployment pipelines, including validation, rollback, and troubleshooting.
- Manage upgrades, patching, configuration changes, maintenance, and technology refreshes across deployed infrastructure.
- Improve resilience through capacity planning, performance testing, failure-mode analysis, disaster recovery, backup, failover, and recovery testing.
- Identify reliability risks and operational technical debt using reliability metrics, incident trends, capacity data, and service health indicators.
- Automate operational activities using an everything-as-code approach.
- Collaborate with platform engineering and application teams to improve operational requirements, reusable infrastructure components, reliability, and operability.
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust clearance.
- Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of experience, or a high school diploma/equivalent with 12 years of experience.
- 7+ years of hands-on experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps, or production systems engineering.
- Hands-on experience operating AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud, including OpenShift ROSA or comparable Kubernetes-based platforms.
- Strong infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform and Ansible or Ansible Tower.
- Experience with GitLab and Jenkins, including reliability gating and deployment automation.
- Proficiency administering Linux and Windows Server environments.
- Experience with Dynatrace, Datadog, Splunk, and OpenTelemetry or comparable enterprise observability tools.
- Experience owning SLI/SLO and alerting programs, including error budgets, alert rationalization, and noise reduction.
- Scripting or automation proficiency in Python, Bash, PowerShell, or Go.
- Experience operating in federal or regulated environments such as FISMA, FedRAMP, and NIST 800-53.
- Preferred certifications include AWS Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps Engineer, AWS SysOps, Red Hat ROSA or OpenShift, Azure Administrator Associate, GCP Associate Cloud Engineer, Dynatrace, Datadog Log Management, GitLab CI/CD, Certified Jenkins Engineer, or Terraform Associate.
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement.
- Night-shift schedule from 11pm–7am Eastern Standard Time.
- Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.
Tech Stack
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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/