Security, Compliance, and Identity

• Implement and enforce STIG, CIS, and organizational security requirements across pipelines, platforms, and workloads.
• Design and manage AWS and Kubernetes IAM, including RBAC, admission controls, pod security, network policies, and secrets management using AWS KMS and Secrets Manager.
• Support vulnerability management, ATO and accreditation activities, audits, and continuous compliance reporting across FedRAMP and DoD environments.

Observability, Incident Response, and Reliability

• Operate observability platforms including Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch, and OpenSearch for metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerting.
• Lead critical incident response, including real-time diagnostics, stakeholder and executive communication, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions through resolution.
• Facilitate cross-team root-cause reviews and drive resulting reliability improvements through implementation.

Leadership and Delivery

• Lead transformation initiatives across AI, advanced analytics, and emerging technologies, translating strategy into actionable engineering roadmaps and technical responses to RFIs.
• Establish engineering standards, review architecture, and mentor engineers across DevSecOps, cloud, security, and automation.
• Identify and improve inefficient processes and actively participate in Agile delivery to evolve business processes and technology.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust level clearance.
• Bachelor's degree with 12 years of experience, a Master's degree with 10 years of experience, or a High School Diploma or equivalent and 16 years.
• 8+ years of AWS experience covering networking, IT security tooling, and databases.
• Hands-on technical expertise in DevSecOps, security automation, application development, integration, and release management.
• Real-world experience establishing and maturing CI/CD toward progressive delivery.
• Experience building self-service developer onboarding or platform-as-a-product capabilities using Terraform and GitLab.
• Proven track record in senior technical or advisory roles, driving strategic change and digital adoption across business units.
• Experience supporting FedRAMP, FISMA, or DoD-accredited cloud environments.
• Leadership presence and communication skills to work with customers at all levels and manage communication during critical incidents.

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Professional.
• AWS Certified Security — Specialty.
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration.
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD).
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate; experience obtaining or maintaining an ATO in a FedRAMP High environment.

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 can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

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