Senior Cloud Engineer

Peraton is seeking a detail-oriented and proactive Senior Cloud Engineer to design, implement, and manage observability solutions across our cloud infrastructure. In this role you'll be responsible for ensuring system reliability and visibility through best-in-class monitoring, logging and alerting practices across AWS. You'll work across operations and compliance teams to ensure our AWS workloads meet performance expectations while managing security, regulatory and cost-efficiency standards. This role is key to driving visibility, governance and financial accountability in our cloud environment.

What you will do:

Design and implement health checks and probes for cloud infrastructure and applications across AWS
• Define and deploy readiness and liveness probes for containers running in EKS/ECS
• Write custom scripts for CloudWatch custom metrics and alarms based on application specific probes
• Implement alerting and remediation automation based on probe outputs
• Document monitoring strategies, probe configurations and operational playbooks
• Define monitoring strategies for cloud resources, microservices and containerized workloads
• Implement automated health checks and uptime monitoring
• Continuously optimize and evolve the observability stack to improve reliability and reduce noise
• Configure and manage monitoring tools (CloudWatch, Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus)
• Set up monitoring thresholds, dashboards, and metrics for application and infrastructure
• Perform root cause analysis and incident correlation using monitoring and performance analysis tools
• Maintain a central inventory of all licensed software deployed in AWS environments (Windows, Oracle, Red Hat, SQL Server)
• Ensure compliance with vendor-specific licensing terms
• Monitor usage patterns and perform license audits and reconciliation
• Identify and remediate latency issues, throughput bottlenecks and underutilized resources
• Recommend and implement right-sizing of compute, memory and storage resources
• Analyze and optimize the performance of AWS resources, including EC2, RDS, Lambda, S3, ECS and EKS
• Conduct performance profiling and benchmarking for applications hosted on AWS
• Contribute to capacity planning, disaster recovery strategies and performance testing initiatives
• Create reports on system performance trends and opportunities, capacity planning and cost-performance trade-offs

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of 8 years with BS/BA or 12 years with a HS Degree/Diploma
• 8+ years of IT experience
• Experience in cloud infrastructure with emphasis on AWS
• Strong experience with CloudWatch (metrics, logs, alarms) CloudWatch Synthetics (canary scripting), Route 53 health checks and failover strategies
• Proficient in scripting languages like Python, Bash or Node.js.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (GibHub, GitLab, Kubernettes, DevOps)
• Cloud certifications (AWS DevOps Engineer, Solutions Architect Associate)
• Proficient with license management tools and cost optimization platforms
• Solid understanding of cloud architecture principles, autoscaling strategies and load balancing
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience with observability stacks like Grafana, OpenSearch, Datadog
• Familiarity with FinOps practices and cost-performance trade-offs

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 do the can't be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.