Cloud Platform Technical Lead

Responsibilities

Peraton is looking for a Cloud Platform Technical Lead who will drive innovation and collaboration between diverse teams of Software Developers, AWS Site Reliability Engineers, Automation Engineers, Testing Engineers, Network Engineers, Database Engineers, Cloud Operations Engineers, Tools Engineers, Application Developers, and Security experts.

WorkwLocation: Remote

Shift Schedule: 8am – 5pm Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Key job responsibilities

- Be a key technical leader to drive maturity of current Cloud Platform (IaaS, PaaS, Saas) and lead continuous delivery of highly visible applications.

- Expertise in designing, architecting and implementing a broad range of technology transformation initiatives, especially those involving advanced cloud platform technologies, artificial intelligence, advanced analytics, and emerging digital solutions.

- Technical skills using modern tools and observability metrics to identify and troubleshoot recurring enterprise or cloud platform issues and own initiatives to drive improvements.

- Led Agile sprints to evolve business processes, technologies, and drive optional improvement

- Utilize enterprise domain expertise on monitoring and alerting tools & practices leveraging

- Enterprise Observability Tools like Datadog (preferred) or Dynatrace.

- Understand the technical and business environment to be able to assess the true impact and risks and be able to quickly provide executive level communication regarding the status of an event.

- Monitor and manage communications during high impact events via relevant channels.

- Prioritize, manage, and own emerging and developing customer issues from start to finish.

- Identify areas where standardization of process will aid incident response.

- Ensure standards are maintained within the technical engineering teams.

- Identify inefficiencies in team process and create plans to address them.

- Create and review polished and professional technical documentation as appropriate such as documentation for incident events and actions taken, root cause analysis and actions needed, design new standard procedures for mitigations, etc.

- Must be able to communicate complex technical information effectively to the Customer and Stakeholders.

- Responsible for responding to RFIs and drafting technical approach responses that align to our roadmap and strategic agenda.

- Proven track record in senior consulting or advisory roles, driving strategic change and digital adoption across multiple business units.

- Set the foundation for success by creating a standard approach for how data, systems, and new technologies like AI and digital dashboards connect and work together, including tools for managing data, finances, design, equipment, and project progress.

Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:

- Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust level clearance.

- Bachelors Degree and 12 years of experience, a Masters Degree and 10 years of experience, or a High School diploma/equivalent or 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, permissions, etc.

- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes-based containerized applications (AWS EKS) including spring boot-based container services.

- Experience with Gitlab CICD including enabling environments, feature flags, and DORA Metrics aggregation.

- Coding proficiency in at least one software language (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, Ruby).

- Must be a self-starter and able to execute at both a