Senior Platform Engineer/Application Enablement Lead

• Operate containerized workloads on OpenShift (ROSA) and Amazon EKS across AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud, including Spring Boot and other microservice deployments.
• Engineer AWS environments (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, EBS, ELB/ALB/NLB, Route 53, CloudWatch, OpenSearch) with least-privilege IAM as a baseline.
• Automate infrastructure with Terraform for AWS and cluster configuration, and with Ansible / Ansible Tower for configuration management and node hardening.

• Operate GitLab CI/CD pipelines with reusable templates, feature flags, environment gating, and DORA metrics, and support migration of legacy Jenkins pipelines to GitLab.
• Integrate SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets, and IaC scanning as required pipeline stages, with policy-driven gates that block insecure builds from promotion.
• Operate observability across Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch, and OpenSearch, and instrument applications so every service ships with actionable alerts and a usable dashboard.
• Enforce STIG, CIS, and organizational compliance across applications and pipelines, and support Aqua Security for image scanning, admission control, and runtime protection.
• Support vulnerability management, ATO artifacts, audits, and continuous compliance reporting for FedRAMP and DoD-accredited boundaries.

Leadership and Delivery

• Set engineering standards, review architecture, mentor engineers, and represent application support in cross-functional planning and change advisory forums.

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust level clearance.
• Bachelor's degree and 8 years of experience, or High School Diploma or equivalent and 12 years of experience.
• 8+ years of hands-on AWS experience supporting platform engineering, application operations, networking, and security across AWS Commercial and GovCloud.
• Strong experience with EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, EBS, ELB/ALB/NLB, Route 53, CloudWatch, OpenSearch, etc.
• Observability experience with Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch, and/or OpenSearch.
• Experience with Terraform and Ansible/Ansible Tower for infrastructure-as-code (IAC) and configuration management
• Hands-on experience leading production application support, including incident command, RCA facilitation, and driving corrective actions to closure.
• Experience building self-service developer onboarding or platform-as-a-product capabilities using Terraform and GitLab.
• Real-world experience establishing and maturing CI/CD toward progressive delivery.
• Proven track record in senior technical or advisory roles, driving strategic change and digital adoption across business units.
• Leadership presence and communication skills to work with customers at all levels and manage communication during critical incidents.

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional.
• AWS Certified Security - Specialty.
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration.
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD).
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate.
• Experience obtaining or maintaining an ATO in a FedRAMP High environment.

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.

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The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces.

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