Sr. AWS Cloud Engineer / Cloud Implementation Lead

About this role

Responsibilities
Peraton is seeking a hands-on Senior AWS Cloud Engineer / Cloud Implementation Lead to support cloud implementation, governance, and modernization for the Risk Decision Group (RDG) cloud platform. This role will lead implementation of an AWS capability that helps assess, score, visualize, and improve cloud maturity, security posture, operational readiness, RMF/ATO readiness, and modernization progress across RDG cloud systems.
The initial focus for this role is AWS, but the long-term roadmap includes multi-cloud extensibility, including Azure and other enterprise data sources.
This is a hands-on delivery role including day-to-day operational tasks. The ideal candidate will build, document, troubleshoot, coordinate with stakeholders, support data ingestion workflows, and help scale an MVP into a repeatable cloud governance capability. This role will also help build the target-state cloud architecture across AWS (primary) and Azure (secondary), ensuring solutions meet FedRAMP Moderate security and compliance requirements.
This is a 100% remote position.
Responsibilities

Lead day-to-day technical implementation of AWS-based cloud operations and deployment of applications and the MVP

Provision and configure compute, storage, database, and other services using Infrastructure as Code (AWS CloudFormation and Terraform)

Develop and maintain pipeline automation for application and infrastructure deployments

Design and package applications using modern containerization and orchestration tooling

Configure logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting, applying SRE practices

Produce cost-and-capacity reports using FinOps tooling

Produce well-structured design documents, diagrams, and hand-over guides

Create, manage, and optimize AWS cloud environments and resources (e.g., security groups, VPCs, IAM roles)

Support AWS implementation using services such as S3, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Config, Security Hub, IAM, KMS, ECS/Fargate, Athena/Glue, QuickSight, or similar services

Write scripts to automate repetitive tasks (e.g., with Python, Bash, or PowerShell)

Implement CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployments

Support API integrations and third-party service integrations, such as Databricks

Help containerize and package the capability so it can be deployed and expanded across multiple systems and customers

Develop technical documentation, onboarding guides, deployment notes, and implementation playbooks

Lead cloud migration and modernization efforts, including workload assessment, right-sizing, and cost optimization

Implement cloud monitoring solutions to track the performance, availability, and health of applications and infrastructure

Respond to incidents, troubleshoot issues, and provide support as necessary

Analyze logs, metrics, and cloud monitoring tools (e.g., CloudWatch) to troubleshoot and resolve performance bottlenecks

Work closely with application developers, cyber, operations teams, and business stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver cloud solutions

Monitor and optimize cloud resource usage to reduce costs while maintaining system performance

Qualifications
Required Qualifications

US citizenship required; ability to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret eligible clearance

Minimum 8 years work experience with BS/BA in computer science, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent experience)

8+ years of progressive experience in cloud infrastructure roles

5+ years of experience in AWS cloud engineering or similar roles

Deep hands-on expertise designing AWS solutions, including VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, networking/Transit Gateway, KMS, Organizations, Control Tower, PrivateLink, Direct Connect, and Site-to-Site VPN

5+ years of scripting experience (Python, Bash, PowerShell)

Cloud development experience using Python is highly preferred

3+ years of experience developing AWS policies as code (JSON)

3+ years of experience with the AWS CLI

2+ years of experience with AWS cloud-native security services such as GuardDuty, Security Hub, and Inspector

Demonstrated experience architecting within FedRAMP Moderate (or FedRAMP High/DoD IL4-5 or similar compliance) environments, including familiarity with NIST 800-53 and NIST 800-171 control families

2+ years of experience and strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar) and CI/CD pipelines

3+ years of experience with cloud-native and serverless architectures (Lambda, API Gateway, microservices) and containerization

Preferred Qualifications

Certification: AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate

Certification: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate

Experience with Databricks implementation and support

Azure Administrator Associate certification

Active security clearance

Experience with AWS AI services (Amazon Bedrock)

Experience with hybrid/multi-cloud architecture, including Azure (VNets, Azure AD/Entra ID, Azure Policy, ExpressRoute)

Experience with Microsoft .NET

Experience supporting ATO/continuous monitoring processes

Familiarity with DevSecOps pipelines

Familiarity with AI security and governance frameworks, national security/defense/critical infrastructure missions, and supporting federal agencies or large GovCon programs

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Peraton Overview
Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the…