About Peraton

Peraton is a next-generation national security company driving missions of consequence globally. 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 across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace, serving essential government agencies and supporting every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Program Overview

Peraton is seeking a Senior Level Cloud Engineer (Platform/Infrastructure Lead) to support the NOAA AWIPS program. AWIPS is the mission-critical forecasting system utilized in over 150 National Weather Service offices nationwide. This role is crucial for the AWIPS modernization and cloud-ready transformation phase.

About The Role

This Senior Cloud Engineer will guide the design, deployment, and optimization of cloud infrastructure to strengthen forecasting speed, resilience, and scalability.

What You'll Do: Cloud Engineering & Optimization

Designs, implements, and manages secure, scalable, and efficient cloud infrastructure and systems. Key tasks include:

• Migrating on-premises systems to the cloud.
• Automating infrastructure deployments.
• Optimizing cloud cost and troubleshooting cloud-related issues.
• Ensuring strict adherence to security policies.

Responsibilities: Cloud Architecture & Leadership

• Architect and manage multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Implement automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), containerization, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Ensure robust cloud security, identity management, and compliance standards are met.
• Monitor and tune cloud systems for optimum performance, identifying single points of failure and implementing strategies to increase performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Support critical application migration and modernization initiatives.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including developers and product teams, to integrate cloud services and streamline workflows.
• Provide technical leadership, mentor junior engineers, and drive best practices in cloud engineering, including automation, CI/CD pipelines, and configuration management.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of 12 years of relevant experience with a BS/BA, 10 years with an MS/MA, or 7 years with a PhD. (4 additional years of relevant experience will be considered in lieu of a bachelor's degree).
• Prior experience utilizing cloud technologies including AWS, Azure, and Google.
• Experience using coding languages such as Perl, Java, PowerShell, PHP, Ruby, Python, etc.
• Experienced with Cloud Architecture patterns and strategies (including IaaS, PaaS, Security, Compute, Storage, and networking).
• Demonstrated experience with Amazon Web Services, code-defined infrastructure, configuration management tools, and CI/CD.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience supporting NOAA programs.
• Certified Cloud Solution Architect with AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Advanced SQL server and AWS knowledge.
• Active/Current Public Trust clearance.

Note: This position is contingent upon contract award. #AWIPS

Compensation and Benefits

Target Salary Range: $146,000 - $234,000. Salary is determined by various factors, including experience, education, skills, competencies, geographic location, and business/contract considerations. Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.

The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date, subject to business needs and candidate availability.

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