[Remote] Senior DevOps Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Peraton is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, automate, secure, and support AWS infrastructure and software delivery pipelines for a mission-critical Department of Veterans Affairs application. The role focuses on infrastructure as code, CI/CD, reliable deployments, production troubleshooting, and federal security compliance.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and maintain reusable Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for source validation, builds, automated testing, security scanning, containerization, artifact promotion, and deployment
• Manage releases across DEV, DEV2, TEST, MVC, PREPROD, and PROD environments, using automated lower-environment deployments and controlled approvals for higher environments
• Provision and maintain AWS infrastructure and Amazon ECS services using CloudFormation and other IaC tools, including IAM, VPCs, subnets, security groups, load balancers, target groups, resource sizing, and health checks
• Build, tag, publish, and promote Docker images through Amazon ECR with artifact traceability and no unnecessary rebuilding between environments
• Automate Java/Maven API and Node.js/npm application builds, dependency management, linting, caching, and security checks; integrate Amazon S3 and ECR with delivery workflows
• Lead technical execution of release and change controls, production deployments, quality checks, maintenance windows, and stakeholder communications
• Diagnose and resolve complex pipeline, AWS, networking, IAM, dependency, configuration, and production issues; support disaster recovery planning, testing, and ongoing environment management
• Integrate AWS Inspector, GuardDuty, and dependency scanning into DevSecOps workflows; identify, assess and remediate vulnerabilities, threats and configuration risks
• Implement system hardening using applicable STIGs and support security policies, procedures, and controls; review network and system configurations against security requirements
• Support VA Authorization to Operate (ATO) activities, System Security Plans (SSPs), NIST/FISMA compliance, security control assessments, contingency planning, and continuous monitoring
• Communicates clearly with VA stakeholders, program and project managers, technical leads, architects, security teams, and application developers
• Demonstrates independent problem-solving, sound judgment, risk management skills, organizational skills, attention to detail, and accountability for delivery
• Collaborates effectively across teams and adapts to changing priorities and technical requirements

Skills

• Minimum of 8 years with BS/BA; Minimum of 6 years with MS/MA; Minimum of 3 years with PhD, 12 years with a HS Diploma
• Experience with hands-on AWS infrastructure experience
• Active AWS Associate-level certification and understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework
• Hands-on administration of Linux servers (Ubuntu preferred), including scripting and automation of patching, backups, logging, key management, and system hardening
• Experience with AWS storage (S3, EBS, incremental snapshots, and AMI management), cloud networking and connectivity, load balancing, and Auto Scaling
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code and CI/CD tools, including Terraform, Ansible, and Jenkins
• Ability to obtain a VA Public Trust clearance; U.S. Citizen, Green Card holder, residing in the United States for at least three years
• Experience with AWS EC2, ECS, ECR, S3, EBS, EFS, ALB, CloudFront, CloudTrail, EventBridge, IAM, and cloud networking
• Familiarity with Kubernetes
• Experience with web and application servers, load balancers, web application firewalls, and container deployments
• Familiarity with Jira Cloud, Confluence, Slack, Agile practices, release governance, and change management
• Communicates clearly with VA stakeholders, program and project managers, technical leads, architects, security teams, and application developers
• Demonstrates independent problem-solving, sound judgment, risk management skills, organizational skills, attention to detail, and accountability for delivery
• Collaborates effectively across teams and adapts to changing priorities and technical requirements

Benefits

• 100% remote work allowed
• Eligible employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.
• Eligible employees: medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays.

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