Senior Cloud Infrastructure Systems Engineer

Peraton is seeking a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Systems Engineer in our Chantilly VA office in support of our Department of Defense (DoD) Community customer as part of a highly talented highly motivated and high-performing part of the infrastructure as a service team you will support an exciting program which involves design development test and deployment of an exciting and complex system in an Agile construct to contribute to mission success for a variety of stakeholders. Join us and be part of the next generation of innovators as we blaze a trail forward for our profession and company.

What youll do:

• Work closely with our DoD customer and stakeholders throughout system lifecycle in development integration & test deployment and operations of a highly sophisticated ground system architecture
• Help build mission-critical highly available high-performance networked systems in a team-oriented environment. Build and deploy cloud instances and applications utilizing automation tools to streamline processes and improve efficiency
• Develop deploy and maintain Ansible playbooks for the purpose of automating rapid installation and system patching within multiple large-scale environments
• Develop systems engineering-related documentation to include operational concept requirements specifications interface control documents and validation & verification plans
• Conduct system planning and design for expansion of these resources to meet program needs
• Support ground system related trade studies

Required qualifications:

• This position requires the candidate to possess a minimum of Top-Secret clearance with the ability to obtain TS/SCI. The candidate must maintain the clearance.
• Associates degree and 14 years of experience in a Systems Engineering related field; OR bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering Cloud Computing or related field and 12 years of experience in a Systems Engineering related field; OR a masters degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering Cloud Computing or related field and 10 years of experience in a systems engineering related field. Additional four (4) years of relevant experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Meet DoD 8140 foundational requirements for a System Developer with a proficiency of advanced.
• Hands-on experience with Linux and Windows-based operating systems to include a deep core understanding of the operating systems concepts and functionality building and configuring systems from scratch troubleshooting functionality and performing all functions leveraging automation tooling where possible
• Demonstrated experience in installing configuring and deploying services from scratch to include configuration of security certificate and authentication settings following industry standard best practices
• Experience creating modifying and troubleshooting Ansible playbooks for system configuration and system sustainment activities (e.g. patching)
• High proficiency in the use of scripting languages such as Ansible Bash or Python for task automation such as package installation and configuration across an array of physical and/or virtual hosts
• Experience using Git to include collaboration configuration management tracking and code review facilitation
• Experience creating and updating process documentation to include infrastructure deployments application installation and system sustainment activities
• Direct experience with host/application integration into an Identity and Access Management (IDAM) system such as Active Directory FreeIPA or other similar systems including deploying PKI infrastructure & troubleshooting PKI related issues
• Direct experience with RHEL 9.x and above to include building systems up from bare metal performing software package installation and update operating system configuration and application troubleshooting
• Direct experience troubleshooting application & system level issues caused by PKI configuration networking firewalls or other similar OS/infrastructure layers
• High proficiency in leveraging automation tools to perform security hardening to include patching for vulnerabilities configuration changes experience configuring and troubleshooting SELinux and debugging/troubleshooting system and application functionality because of hardening changes
• Hands-on experience with multiple Red Hat tools including Red Hat OpenStack (RHOSP) Red Hat OpenShift (RHOCP) Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift (RHOSO) and Red Hat Satellite for infrastructure deployment configuration management and system sustainment tasks

Desired Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes to include troubleshooting containerized workloads investigating node related issues and deploying/upgrading solutions using YAML manifests Helm or GitOps CD
• Experience deploying configuring managing databases such as deploying/operating PostgreSQL/MySQL (backups HA patterns)
• Experience deploying configuring managing multi-factor authentication (MFA) technologies such as ADFS/Keycloak/Okta SAML/ODIC
• Experience implementing and leveraging system monitoring tools to include log aggregation (Splunk Elasticsearch) infrastructure telemetry (Sensu Prometheus) and visualization (Grafana Kibana)
• Experience with engineering infrastructure solutions that maximize uptime reduce repetitive tasking and mitigate human error
• Experience with out-of-band (OOB) technologies to manage remote resources such as iDRAC/iLO/IPMI
• Ability to express yourself confidently concisely and accurately through written and oral communications
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with management the customer and tenants across DoD
• Detail oriented can multi-task and can work with minimal supervision

Benefits:

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and eligible to participatein an attractive bonus plan

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