4 days ago
Base Salary
$135k - $216k/yr
Responsibilities
- Establish technical direction, engineering standards, and operational procedures for enterprise platform infrastructure and shared services.
- Design, implement, optimize, operate, and sustain platform capabilities across hybrid cloud, on-premises, and Kubernetes environments.
- Oversee infrastructure as code, configuration management, automation, and secure deployment pipeline capabilities.
- Lead Tier 3 escalations, major incident response, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and service restoration activities.
- Guide zero trust security controls, identity-aware access, network segmentation, least-privilege policies, and cybersecurity alignment.
- Oversee onboarding and integration of tenants, applications, and shared services across the enterprise platform.
- Provide technical oversight of logging, metrics, alerting, dashboards, and platform health monitoring.
- Serve as shift lead for rotating operations, coordinate priorities and escalations, and participate in after-hours on-call coverage.
- Mentor Senior and Mid-Level engineers and coordinate with program leadership, architecture, cybersecurity, development, operations, vendors, and customer stakeholders.
- Maintain technical documentation, operational runbooks, incident procedures, and knowledge management practices.
Requirements
- Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field, with 12 or more years of relevant experience; an additional 4 years of relevant experience may substitute for the degree.
- Extensive experience engineering, operating, and sustaining production enterprise platforms using Kubernetes or Kubernetes-based container orchestration.
- Extensive experience with AWS, Azure, or a government cloud region and hybrid cloud or on-premises infrastructure.
- Extensive experience with infrastructure as code, configuration management, and automation technologies such as Terraform and Ansible.
- Experience designing and implementing secure automated deployment pipelines.
- Expertise troubleshooting Linux systems, cloud environments, networking, container platforms, and identity and access management.
- Extensive experience leading Tier 3 escalations, major incident response, and root cause analysis for production enterprise systems.
- Experience establishing technical standards and mentoring engineers and multidisciplinary technical teams.
- DoD 8140/8570 IAT Level II certification, such as Security+ CE, or the ability to obtain it within the established timeframe.
- Desired qualifications include experience with multiple classification levels, cross-domain data movement, zero trust architecture, ServiceNow, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Elastic, RMF authorization, continuous monitoring, cATO, CKA, CKS, advanced cloud certifications, and Intelligence Community or Department of Defense programs.
- Ability to work rotating shifts within a seven-day onsite coverage window and participate in a shared after-hours on-call rotation.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, health savings account, short- and long-term disability, employee assistance program, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off, and company-paid holidays.
- Fully onsite position in Chantilly, Virginia, with rotating shifts and shared after-hours on-call coverage.
- Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus.
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.