Cloud Platform Technical Lead
Posted 1hrs ago
Employment Information
Report this job
Job expired or something wrong with this job?
Job Description
Cloud Platform Technical Lead advancing Peraton’s national security cloud and enterprise IT platforms. Leading AWS, DevSecOps, observability, incident response, and digital transformation initiatives.
Responsibilities:
- Drive innovation and collaboration across software development, AWS site reliability engineering, automation, testing, network, database, cloud operations, tools, application development, and security teams
- Drive maturity of the current Cloud Platform across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- Lead continuous delivery of highly visible applications
- Design, architect, and implement technology transformation initiatives involving cloud platforms, artificial intelligence, advanced analytics, and emerging digital solutions
- Use modern tools and observability metrics to identify and troubleshoot recurring enterprise or cloud platform issues
- Lead initiatives to drive platform improvements
- Lead Agile sprints to evolve business processes and technologies
- Utilize monitoring and alerting tools and practices, including Datadog or Dynatrace
- Assess technical and business impact and risks and provide executive-level event status communications
- Monitor and manage communications during high-impact events
- Prioritize, manage, and own customer issues from start to finish
- Identify process standardization opportunities to improve incident response
- Maintain standards within technical engineering teams
- Identify team process inefficiencies and create improvement plans
- Create and review technical documentation, including incident documentation, root cause analyses, mitigations, and standard procedures
- Communicate complex technical information to customers and stakeholders
- Respond to RFIs and draft technical approach responses aligned with the roadmap and strategic agenda
- Drive strategic change and digital adoption across multiple business units
- Establish standard approaches for connecting data, systems, AI, and digital dashboards, including tools for data, finances, design, equipment, and project progress
Requirements:
- Must be a U.S. Citizen
- Ability to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust level clearance
- Bachelor's Degree and 12 years of experience, Master's Degree and 10 years of experience, or High School diploma/equivalent and 16 years of experience
- At least 10 years of hands-on experience building/operating on AWS, DevSecOps, application development, networking, IT Security tools, databases and tools in a modern software development environment
- One relevant AWS Certification: AWS Solutions Architect Associate, AWS Security Specialist, or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
- Ability to work with Terraform for infrastructure as code solutions
- Strong understanding of identity access management roles and permissions
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes-based containerized applications (AWS EKS), including Spring Boot-based container services
- Experience with GitLab CI/CD, including enabling environments, feature flags, and DORA Metrics aggregation
- Coding proficiency in at least one software language, such as Python, C, C++, Java, or Ruby
- Ability to execute at both tactical and strategic levels with strong attention to detail
- Strong analytical acumen, solid technology experience, business judgment, and ability to solve complex problems
- Leadership presence and communication skills to work effectively with customers at all organizational levels
Benefits:
- Potential eligibility for overtime
- Potential eligibility for shift differential
- Potential eligibility for a discretionary bonus














