Senior DevOps Engineer

The Senior DevOps Engineer designs, automates, secures, and supports AWS cloud infrastructure and software delivery pipelines for a mission-critical application supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The position provides senior-level technical expertise in infrastructure as code, CI/CD, controlled deployments, system reliability, production troubleshooting, and federal security compliance, while collaborating with development, quality assurance, security, and operations teams to deliver reliable, compliant releases., * Engineer and maintain reusable Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for source validation, builds, automated testing, security scanning, containerization, artifact promotion, and deployment.

• Manage releases across DEV, DEV2, TEST, MVC, PREPROD, and PROD environments, using automated lower-environment deployments and controlled approvals for higher environments.
• Provision and maintain AWS infrastructure and Amazon ECS services using CloudFormation and other IaC tools, including IAM, VPCs, subnets, security groups, load balancers, target groups, resource sizing, and health checks.
• Build, tag, publish, and promote Docker images through Amazon ECR with artifact traceability and no unnecessary rebuilding between environments.
• Automate Java/Maven API and Node.js/npm application builds, dependency management, linting, caching, and security checks; integrate Amazon S3 and ECR with delivery workflows.
• Lead technical execution of release and change controls, production deployments, quality checks, maintenance windows, and stakeholder communications.
• Diagnose and resolve complex pipeline, AWS, networking, IAM, dependency, configuration, and production issues; support disaster recovery planning, testing, and ongoing environment management.

Security and Compliance

• Integrate AWS Inspector, GuardDuty, and dependency scanning into DevSecOps workflows; identify, assess and remediate vulnerabilities, threats and configuration risks.
• Implement system hardening using applicable STIGs and support security policies, procedures, and controls; review network and system configurations against security requirements.
• Support VA Authorization to Operate (ATO) activities, System Security Plans (SSPs), NIST/FISMA compliance, security control assessments, contingency planning, and continuous monitoring.

• Minimum of 8 years with BS/BA; Minimum of 6 years with MS/MA; Minimum of 3 years with PhD, 12 years with a HS Diploma
• Experience with hands-on AWS infrastructure experience
• Active AWS Associate-level certification and understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Hands-on administration of Linux servers (Ubuntu preferred), including scripting and automation of patching, backups, logging, key management, and system hardening.
• Experience with AWS storage (S3, EBS, incremental snapshots, and AMI management), cloud networking and connectivity, load balancing, and Auto Scaling.
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code and CI/CD tools, including Terraform, Ansible, and Jenkins.
• Ability to obtain a VA Public Trust clearance; U.S. Citizen, Green Card holder, residing in the United States for at least three years., * Experience with AWS EC2, ECS, ECR, S3, EBS, EFS, ALB, CloudFront, CloudTrail, EventBridge, IAM, and cloud networking; familiarity with Kubernetes.
• Experience with web and application servers, load balancers, web application firewalls, and container deployments.
• Familiarity with Jira Cloud, Confluence, Slack, Agile practices, release governance, and change management., * Communicates clearly with VA stakeholders, program and project managers, technical leads, architects, security teams, and application developers.
• Demonstrates independent problem-solving, sound judgment, risk management skills, organizational skills, attention to detail, and accountability for delivery.

Collaborates effectively across teams and adapts to changing priorities and technical requirements

Target Salary Range: $86,000 - $138,000. 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.

Benefits Statement: 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.

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 solve the most daunting challenges that our customers face. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.