Cloud Network Automation Engineer

Overview:

As the worlds leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider we deliver trusted and highly differentiated national security solutions and technologies that keep people safe and secure. Peraton serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies across the intelligence space cyber defense civilian health and state and local markets. Peraton is seeking a Cloud Network Automation Engineer to join our team of qualified diverse individuals.

What you will do:

• Provision manage and support Palo Alto Firewalls and Panorama servers across several internet-connected and internet-disconnected networks and Cloud Service Providers.
• Develop utilize and maintain Ansible Playbooks to secure patch and configure Palo Alto appliances.
• Manage and configure connected services such as network adapters storage and firewalls.
• Deploy configure and support monitoring capabilities to detect anomalous conditions or service disruptions.
• Investigate service disruptions and provide root cause analysis reports and implement additional steps to prevent subsequent issues.

*This position requires full-time onsite attendance Monday through Friday in the Baltimore metropolitan area.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree with 8 years of experience; OR Masters degree with 6 years of experience; OR PhD with 3 years of experience. A degree within one of the following fields is highly desired: Information Technology Cybersecurity Computer Science Information Systems Data Science or Software lieu of a degree an additional 4 years of relevant experience may be considered.
• Active TS clearance with SCI eligibility.
• Active CompTIA Security certification.
• Strong oral and written communications skills.

Required Technical Qualifications:

• Expertise with Configuration as Code (CaC) tooling Ansible preferred.
• Expertise managing Palo Alto firewalls disconnected environments.
• Expertise with network requirements and configuration of regulated environments preferably within Department of War agencies.

Preferred Technical Qualifications:

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tooling Terraform preferred.
• Experience managing secure computing environments to adhere with DISA STIGs and NIST 800-53 controls.
• Experience monitoring system uptime and performance with tools such as Splunk Grafana and SolarWinds.
• Experience providing detailed technical after-action reports with root cause analysis after outage or security incidents.
• Familiarity with host-level networking such as instance firewalls.
• Familiarity with source code management tooling such as GitHub or GitLab.

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.