Sr. AWS Cloud Engineer / Cloud Implementation Lead

About this role

## Responsibilities

Peraton is seeking a hands-on Senior AWS Cloud Engineer / Cloud Implementation Lead to support cloud implementation, governance, and modernization for the Risk Decision Group (RDG) cloud platform. This role will lead implementation of an AWS capability that helps assess, score, visualize, and improve cloud maturity, security posture, operational readiness, RMF/ATO readiness, and modernization progress across RDG cloud systems.

The initial focus for this role is AWS, but the long-term roadmap includes multi-cloud extensibility, including Azure and other enterprise data sources.

This is a hands-on delivery role including day-to-day operational tasks. The ideal candidate will build, document, troubleshoot, coordinate with stakeholders, support data ingestion workflows, and help scale an MVP into a repeatable cloud governance capability. This role will also help build the target-state cloud architecture across AWS (primary) and Azure (secondary), ensuring solutions meet FedRAMP Moderate security and compliance requirements.

This is a 100% remote position.

# Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day technical implementation of AWS-based cloud operations and deployment of applications and the MVP
• Provision and configure compute, storage, database, and other services using Infrastructure as Code (AWS CloudFormation and Terraform)
• Develop and maintain pipeline automation for application and infrastructure deployments
• Design and package applications using modern containerization and orchestration tooling
• Configure logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting, applying SRE practices
• Produce cost-and-capacity reports using FinOps tooling
• Produce well-structured design documents, diagrams, and hand-over guides
• Create, manage, and optimize AWS cloud environments and resources (e.g., security groups, VPCs, IAM roles)
• Support AWS implementation using services such as S3, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Config, Security Hub, IA...