Lead Cloud Engineer

Overview

Remote
Depends on Experience
Full Time

Skills

AWS
Infrastructure as Code
Python
GCP
Cloud Formation
Terraform
Jira
ServiceNow
SolarWinds
Splunk

Job Details

Role: Lead Cloud Engineer- Remote

Responsibilities:

Peraton is seeking a lead cloud engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be working 100% remotely and will focus on cloud operations and engineering. A candidate in this position will work as part of an enterprise cloud services team lead the engineering and operations team and oversee the deployment of a scalable, secure, and resilient cloud environment. The candidate's responsibilities will include managing the team task priorities, providing technical guidance and solutions for the provisioning of services and permissions, operational monitoring, and incident response. A candidate is expected to have broad experience across cloud infrastructure resources.

The candidate's responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Leadership Role

  • Lead the cloud engineering and operations team for deployment, monitoring, and maintenance of cloud environments (e.g. AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform)

  • Understand the scope and manage the prioritization of ServiceNow requests, changes, and Jira tasks for provisioning, modifying, troubleshooting, and decommissioning cloud services

  • Advise and enhance cloud team process improvements using cloud best practices and team standards

  • Coordinate with team counterparts internal to the cloud services team and with peer leads (eg. OS, database, monitoring teams)

  • Effective communication with leadership for status, issues, risks, concerns, etc.

Technical Role

  • Provide technical guidance and direction to the cloud team on provisioning new resources and resolution of infrastructure issues

  • Provide system monitoring and incident management for cloud environments

  • Manage operations in cloud environments and ensure the high availability and performance of those environments

  • Evaluate and operationalize cloud services, tools, and technologies

  • Implement and manage identity and access management (IAM) policies and tools to control user permissions and access to cloud environments.

  • Monitoring Cloud overall health and addressing/identifying issues and address with the cloud services team and/or cloud customers to resolve

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor s degree and 12 years of relevant experience

  • Five (5) years of experience preferred in cloud technologies including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or other public cloud services with an emphasis on AWS experience

  • Strong experience in writing and deploying Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Cloud Formation, Terraform, CDK) to provision cloud infrastructure

  • Two (2) years of experience preferred with Python or similar cloud scripting language.

  • One (1) cloud certification preferred at the associate level or higher in AWS

  • Experience leading a cloud team that performs the provisioning of cloud infrastructure resources and operational support of provisioned resources

  • Experience with a breadth of cloud infrastructure resources

  • Experience with Jira, ServiceNow, and similar toolsets for workflow management

  • Experience with SolarWinds, Splunk, and similar tools for logging and monitoring

Preferred Qualifications:

  • AWS/Cloud networking experience

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