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Lead Cloud Architect

United States · remote · USD 112000-179000 annual

Role overview

Responsibilities

Peraton is seeking a Lead Cloud Architect to join a team responsible for the operational reliability and architecture of production systems running in AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud environments. Some system components are also deployed in Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The primary production workload runs on Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA).

This is a hands-on technical leadership role that combines cloud architecture, software engineering practices, and systems operations. The Lead Cloud Architect will design and implement scalable, secure, and reliable cloud solutions; define and monitor SLIs and SLOs; support application deployments and migrations across staging and production environments; and create and manage CI/CD pipelines. They will also lead incident response, drive automation to reduce operational toil, establish and promote cloud engineering best practices, and mentor junior Cloud Engineers.

This person partners closely with platform engineers, the security team, and application developers to ensure the infrastructure services are reliable, available, and deployed in a way that meets both developer and security requirements.

Location: Remote

Shift Schedule: 8am – 5pm Eastern Standard Time (EST)

What you will do:

Own the reliability, availability, performance, and operational health of critical infrastructure services and applications, driving continuous improvement throughout their lifecycle.
Lead complex production incidents and service recovery efforts, providing technical direction during high-impact events and driving thorough root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
Define and continuously improve reliability objectives, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, service health metrics, and operational standards for infrastructure services and applications.
Lead observability strategy in partnership with application teams, defining meaningful metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts and ensuring they are integrated into the organization's observability capabilities.
Lead the operational lifecycle of deployed services, including releases, upgrades, patching, configuration changes, capacity management, maintenance, and technology refreshes.
Identify and drive the resolution of systemic reliability risks, recurring failure modes, capacity constraints, technical debt, and other sources of operational risk.
Design and lead resilience and recovery initiatives, including failure-mode analysis, performance and capacity testing, disaster recovery, backup and failover strategies, and recovery validation.

$112,000 - $179,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.

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Lead Cloud Architect

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