AWS Cloud Engineer- DynatraceCyberArk

Peraton is seeking an AWS Cloud Engineer to join our team of qualified diverse individuals. The ideal candidate will become part of Peratons Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Datacenter Consolidation and Cloud Optimization (DCCO) program providing Tier 3 support to the DHS Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) biometric system. The Tier 3 team maintains the HART infrastructure by installing and configuring system software and hardware monitoring system performance resolving customer tickets within JIRA and supporting system incident troubleshooting calls. Tier 3 members closely interact with the government customer to achieve system objectives provide ticket updates and system status updates. Tier 3 members are expected to be on-call for a week at a time approximately 4 6 times a year. This role is entirely telework based with core hours between 9 am 3 pm (EST) Monday Friday; applicant must reside and perform all work within the United States.

Day to Day Roles and Responsibilities:

• Help develop document communicate and enforce a network technology policy.
• Be responsible for the installation and configuration of new software and hardware including the server network devices and firewalls.
• Be responsible for monitoring system performance IT system operations and storage utilization.
• Plan for necessary hardware or software upgrades to support system growth.
• Manage user accounts and assets and assign and update security permissions on the network according to security policy.
• Provide support with escalated help desk requests.
• Have experience with RHEL Windows & other open-source technologies.
• Perform typical system administrative activities.
• Review systems performance logs to identify anomalies and troubleshoot issues.
• Identify root cause and documenting troubleshooting steps to resolution.
• Support active directory/LDAP certificate services network communications and group policy and security compliance.
• Provide Tier III support (problem/incident management).
• Work independently and in team settings to achieve key project/program objectives and deliverables.

Basic Qualifications:

• High school diploma and a minimum of 6 years of Information Technology experience

• U.S. citizenship with the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government agencylevel clearance (DHS EOD required prior to starting)

• Experience in Cloud Systems Administration

• Strong proficiency with Linux

• Knowledge of:

  • Container platforms: OpenShift

  • Monitoring and observability tools: Dynatrace Splunk

  • Automation platforms: Ansible Automation Platform

  • CI/CD tools: Jenkins JFrog or similar toolsets

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Mathematics or Related STEM field.
• Experience installing configuring and maintaining CyberArk Privileged Access Manager
• AWS certifications a PLUS
• Expert knowledge of RHEL Windows & other open-source technologies.

• Experience designing deploying and managing solutions in Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• Knowledge of AWS services such as EC2 S3 RDS VPC IAM CloudFormation and Lambda

• Experience with AWS CLI SDKs and management tools

• Familiarity with AWS security best practices

Program Technologies:

• AWS GovCloud (AWS Console)
• RedHat OpenShift
• Ansible and Docker containers
• Ansible Automation Platform
• Aurora AWS (PostgreSQL) database
• Gitlab and Jenkins pipeline
• CyberArk
• Splunk
• Dynatrace
• SonarQube
• Jira/Confluence

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 worlds 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 cant be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit to learn how were keeping people around the world safe and secure.