IT Infrastructure Cloud Engineer

Peraton is seeking a IT Infrastructure Cloud Engineer to support critical missions within its Risk Decision Group. The position is 100% Remote. Key responsibilities include designing, developing, and implementing cloud-based solutions. This involves designing cloud architecture and completing plans and specifications to develop solutions, collaborating with product managers and engineers to develop specifications for new cloud-based products/services, applications, and solutions. The role also includes driving the roll-out of cloud management platforms, evaluating its performance and implementing enhancements, developing and enriching the product portfolio of cloud services and value-added services, and creating solution recommendations, to include Basis of Estimate for cloud services. Further responsibilities involve evaluating the cost/benefit of cloud vs. virtual private networks vs. dedicated hosting vs. in house solutions and identifying portions of the organization’s IT platform/infrastructure with the highest potential return for cloud deployment. The engineer will perform operations and maintenance of secure managed cloud platform solutions, implement and maintain automation to enhance operation, alerting, and auto remediation of events, develop, maintain, and deploy infrastructure as code using CI/CD pipelines, assist in the managing and support of enterprise Office 365 suite, and administer policies, monitor system performance, and ensure security best practices (DOD STIGS).