Lead Cloud Architect
$112K - $179K/yr
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Atlanta, GA · Remote
$65.25 - $84/hr
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$66.50 - $84.75/hr
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$66.50 - $84.75/hr
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Principal Cloud Architect - Remote Work
San Jose, CA · On-site +1
Principal Cloud Architect - Can Work Remote 10+ years of experience building distributed systems or running infrastructure at scale 5+ years of experience designing highly scalable, secure, and high ...
Principal Cloud Architect - Remote Work
San Jose, CA · On-site +1
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Sr. Cloud Architect
Chicago, IL · On-site +1
$137K - $205K/yr
... Cloud Architect. The Hartford's journey to Cloud is a period of immense change - it is a critical ... This role can have a Hybrid or Remote work arrangement. Candidates who live near one of our office ...
Sr. Cloud Architect
Chicago, IL · On-site +1
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Principal Cloud Architect - Can Work Remote 10+ years of experience building distributed systems or running infrastructure at scale 5+ years of experience designing highly scalable, secure, and high ...
Principal Cloud Architect - Can Work Remote 10+ years of experience building distributed systems or running infrastructure at scale 5+ years of experience designing highly scalable, secure, and high ...
Sr. Cloud Architect
Charlotte, NC · On-site +1
$137K - $205K/yr
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Sr. Cloud Architect
Charlotte, NC · On-site +1
$137K - $205K/yr
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Sr. Cloud Architect
Hartford, CT · On-site +1
$137K - $205K/yr
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Sr. Cloud Architect
Hartford, CT · On-site +1
$137K - $205K/yr
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$75 - $90/hr
... fully remote is NOT available. * 10+ years' total IT/enterprise architecture experience, with 5+ years focused on enterprise AWS cloud architecture and complex integration frameworks. * Proven ...
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Cloud Architect AMI Modernizatio/Greater LA or US Remote/travel
Los Angeles, CA · Remote
$75 - $90/hr
... fully remote is NOT available. * 10+ years' total IT/enterprise architecture experience, with 5+ years focused on enterprise AWS cloud architecture and complex integration frameworks. * Proven ...
Sr Microsoft Cloud Architect
Boca Raton, FL · On-site +1
$110K - $180K/yr
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Eagan, MN · Remote
$100 - $110/hr
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GCP Cloud Architect
Eagan, MN · Remote
$100 - $110/hr
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Sr. Cloud Architect
Columbus, OH · On-site +1
$137K - $205K/yr
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Sr. Cloud Architect
Columbus, OH · On-site +1
$137K - $205K/yr
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Sr. Cloud Architect
Chicago, IL · On-site +1
$137K - $205K/yr
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Sr. Cloud Architect
Chicago, IL · On-site +1
$137K - $205K/yr
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Sr. Cloud Architect
Columbus, OH · On-site +1
$137K - $205K/yr
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Sr. Cloud Architect
Columbus, OH · On-site +1
$137K - $205K/yr
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Sr. Cloud Architect
Hartford, CT · On-site +1
$137K - $205K/yr
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Hartford, CT · On-site +1
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Sr. Cloud Architect
Charlotte, NC · On-site +1
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Charlotte, NC · On-site +1
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Reston, VA · Remote
$66 - $90.50/hr
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Senior Cloud Architect
Reston, VA · Remote
$66 - $90.50/hr
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Senior AWS Cloud Architect
Redmond, WA · Remote
$72.50 - $95.25/hr
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$72.50 - $95.25/hr
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Peraton rating
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Job description
Responsibilities
Peraton is seeking a Lead Cloud Architect to join a team responsible for the operational reliability and architecture of production systems running in AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud environments. Some system components are also deployed in Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The primary production workload runs on Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA).
This is a hands-on technical leadership role that combines cloud architecture, software engineering practices, and systems operations. The Lead Cloud Architect will design and implement scalable, secure, and reliable cloud solutions; define and monitor SLIs and SLOs; support application deployments and migrations across staging and production environments; and create and manage CI/CD pipelines. They will also lead incident response, drive automation to reduce operational toil, establish and promote cloud engineering best practices, and mentor junior Cloud Engineers.
This person partners closely with platform engineers, the security team, and application developers to ensure the infrastructure services are reliable, available, and deployed in a way that meets both developer and security requirements.
Location: Remote
Shift Schedule: 8am - 5pm Eastern Standard Time (EST)
What you will do:
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
Peraton Overview
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. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can't be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.
Target Salary Range
$112,000 - $179,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual's experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.
EEO
EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.
Peraton is seeking a Lead Cloud Architect to join a team responsible for the operational reliability and architecture of production systems running in AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud environments. Some system components are also deployed in Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The primary production workload runs on Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA).
This is a hands-on technical leadership role that combines cloud architecture, software engineering practices, and systems operations. The Lead Cloud Architect will design and implement scalable, secure, and reliable cloud solutions; define and monitor SLIs and SLOs; support application deployments and migrations across staging and production environments; and create and manage CI/CD pipelines. They will also lead incident response, drive automation to reduce operational toil, establish and promote cloud engineering best practices, and mentor junior Cloud Engineers.
This person partners closely with platform engineers, the security team, and application developers to ensure the infrastructure services are reliable, available, and deployed in a way that meets both developer and security requirements.
Location: Remote
Shift Schedule: 8am - 5pm Eastern Standard Time (EST)
What you will do:
- Own the reliability, availability, performance, and operational health of critical infrastructure services and applications, driving continuous improvement throughout their lifecycle.
- Lead complex production incidents and service recovery efforts, providing technical direction during high-impact events and driving thorough root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
- Define and continuously improve reliability objectives, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, service health metrics, and operational standards for infrastructure services and applications.
- Lead observability strategy in partnership with application teams, defining meaningful metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts and ensuring they are integrated into the organization's observability capabilities.
- Lead the operational lifecycle of deployed services, including releases, upgrades, patching, configuration changes, capacity management, maintenance, and technology refreshes.
- Identify and drive the resolution of systemic reliability risks, recurring failure modes, capacity constraints, technical debt, and other sources of operational risk.
- Design and lead resilience and recovery initiatives, including failure-mode analysis, performance and capacity testing, disaster recovery, backup and failover strategies, and recovery validation.
- Develop and advance automation and everything-as-code practices to improve consistency, reliability, deployment, recovery, and overall operational efficiency.
- Partner with Platform Engineering and application teams on architecture and design, defining operational and reliability requirements and influencing platform capabilities and application architectures.
- Mentor junior Cloud Architects and provide technical leadership by establishing best practices, improving operational processes, and advancing the organization's overall reliability engineering maturity.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust level clearance.
- Bachelor's Degree and 12 years of experience, or Master's and 10 years of experience, or a High School diploma/equivalent and 16 years of experience.
- 7+ years hands-on experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, or production systems engineering.
- Extensive hands-on experience operating in AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud, including OpenShift (ROSA) or comparable Kubernetes-based platforms
- Deep infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform and Ansible / Ansible Tower.
- Advanced proficiency of GitLab and Jenkins CI/CD platforms, including reliability gating and deployment automation.
- Deep experience in Linux and Windows Server administration
- Substantial practical experience of implementing and managing enterprise observability tools such as Dynatrace, Datadog, Splunk and Open Telemetry.
- Ownership of an SLI/SLO and alerting program, including error budgets, alert rationalization, and noise reduction.
- Extensive scripting/automation proficiency in Python, Bash, PowerShell, or Go.
- Experience operating in federal or regulated environments (FISMA, FedRAMP, NIST 800-53).
Preferred Qualifications:
- AWS Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps Engineer, or AWS SysOps certification.
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in ROSA, Red Hat Certified Advanced System Administrator in OpenShift
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, GCP Professional Cloud Architect, or GCP Professional Cloud Developer certification
- Dynatrace Associate, Datadog Log Management Fundamentals certification
- GitLab CI/CD Associate certification, Certified Jenkins Engineer (CJE)
- Terraform Authoring and Operations Professional certification
Peraton Overview
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. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can't be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.
Target Salary Range
$112,000 - $179,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual's experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.
EEO
EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.
About Peraton
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At Peraton, we re at the forefront of delivering the next big thing every day. We re the partner of choice to help solve some of the world s most daunting challenges, delivering bold, new solutions to keep people around the world safer and more secure.
Industry
It services
Company size
10,000+ Employees
Headquarters location
Herndon, VA, US
Year founded
2017