Application Cloud Engineer

##### About Peraton

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 solve the most daunting challenges that our customers face. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

##### About The Role

Peraton is seeking a skilled and motivated Application Cloud Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for maintaining cloud-based applications and infrastructure on AWS. You will work closely with development, operations and security teams to ensure the scalability, performance and security of cloud applications. The hired individual will also participate in on-call rotations to support 24/7 production systems and respond to incidents as they arise

Roles & Responsibilities

* Provision and manage AWS infrastructure using infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform * Hands-on experience with Amazon EKS (cluster provisioning, upgrades, node groups management) * Familiarity with EKS networking (VPC CNI, security groups for pods, ALB/NLB ingress controllers * Kubectl proficiency and general Kubernetes object management (deployments, services, configmaps, secrets, RBAC) * Monitor and troubleshoot production systems using AWS CloudWatch and other observability tools * Collaborate with developers to containerize and deploy applications using ECS and Lambda *