> Markdown version of [/jobs/ext/4586628-cloud-devops-engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/jobs/ext/4586628-cloud-devops-engineer). Every page supports `.md` or `Accept: text/markdown`. Links point to the HTML versions so they work for humans too. Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Cloud DevOps Engineer - **Company:** Peraton Inc - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $86,000.0 - $138,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Application Performance Management, Confluence, JIRA, Bash Shell, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Security, Configuration Management, Code Generation, Information Systems, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Key Management, Windows PowerShell, RStudio, Aws Command Line Interface (CLI), Ansible, Prometheus, Software Deployment, Tableau (Software), Datadog, AWS Cdk, Scripting, Delivery Pipeline, Grafana, Reliability of Systems, AWS Lambda, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Gitlab, Cloudformation, Os Ticket, Amazon Relational Database Service, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Deployment Automation, Atlassian Tools, Functional Programming, Cloudwatch, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Terraform, Artificial Intelligence Markup Language (AIML), Elk Stack, Alteryx - **Published:** November 5, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9290945/cloud-devops-engineer ## About the Role * Bachelor's degree and 5 years of professional experience, or a Master's degree and 3 years of professional experience, or a high school diploma/equivalent and 9 years of professional experience. * U.S. Citizenship required; must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance; all work must be performed within the United States. * Strong hands-on experience designing, deploying, and managing cloud-based solutions using core AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, CloudFormation, and IAM for secure and scalable infrastructure. * Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, GitLab, GitLab Runners, or other third-party tools to automate application deployments. * Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, or AWS CDK to automate cloud resource provisioning and configuration management. * Experience with Python, Bash, AWS CLI, or other scripting languages to automate deployments, streamline workflows, troubleshoot issues, and resolve operational challenges within AWS environments. * Candidate must have at least one of the following certifications or be able to attain within 90 Days:AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer - Associate, AWS Certified Developer - Associate, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional, AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate or Professional. Preferred Qualifications: * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field strongly preferred. * One or more AWS Speciality Certification(s) such as AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Speciality, AWS Certified Security - Speciality, AWS AI Fundamentals. * Experience with incident management, root cause analysis, and resolving high-priority incidents in large, multi-tenant environments using Jira, Confluence, etc. * Exemplary communication, analytical skills, and technical knowledge across the client environment. * Ability to produce concise and clear technical documentation. * Experience working in an Agile environment * Experience in leveraging AI tools to accelerate workflows and code generation, and for producing concise and clear technical AI-assisted documentation. * Experience with using or supporting applications such as Dremio, Tableau, Posit and/or Nebari ## Description The program is an IDIQ contract for an AWS-based cloud hosting system. Currently, Peraton is supporting the Cloud Security, IoT, and AIML use cases for the environment in a hybrid work environment with Federal employees. Peraton also support the following applications as part of the environment: Dremio, Tableau, Globus, Posit/RStudio, Atlassian, ThingLogix, Alteryx and CloudCheckr., Peraton is seeking an experienced and proactive Cloud DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team. This fully remote position involves managing and optimizing AWS cloud infrastructure through tasks such as incident management, ticket resolution, automation of operational tasks using scripting languages, and configuration management using tools like CloudFormation, Terraform, and Ansible., * Respond to and resolve tickets in the operations support queue in a timely and efficient manner, ensuring issues are tracked, documented, and closed according to SLAs. * Use tools such as AWS CloudFormation, GitLab and GitLab Runners to respond to support requests to manage and maintain AWS infrastructure, including EC2, RDS, S3, ELB, VPC, IAM Roles and Policies, Security Groups and related services. * Automate routine operational tasks to improve system reliability, security monitoring and configuration management using AWS step functions, lambda functions, SSM documents, AWS EventBridge, SNS, SQS using scripting languages such as python, bash and powershell. * Implement configuration management solutions (e.g., Ansible, Chef, or AWS Systems Manager). * Set up and maintain observability tools (CloudWatch, DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, etc.) to monitor infrastructure and application performance. * Ensure security best practices (IAM policies, encryption, VPC design, secrets management) and compliance with organizational standards. * Analyze and optimize AWS cloud costs without compromising performance or scalability. * Work cross-functionally with customer DevOps engineers, attend weekly team meetings and report status on open tickets and DevOps assignments.