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Responsibilities

The Senior Cloud Architect position, a crucial role in supporting the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3), is a hands-on cloud engineering position that primarily focuses on migrating workloads to the cloud. The role is pivotal in delivering infrastructure migrations to the cloud for highly sensitive information and maintaining ownership of technical and service elements related to cloud migration projects. The Senior Cloud Architect contributes to all levels of the architecture and maintains technical documentation while consulting team members on secure coding practices and developing a familiarity with new tools and best practices. Drives the roll-out of cloud management platforms, evaluates their performance, and implements enhancements. Develops and enriches the product portfolio of cloud services and value-added services. Creates solution recommendations to include a Basis of Estimate for cloud services. Evaluate the cost/benefit of cloud vs. virtual private networks vs. dedicated hosting vs. in-house solutions and identify portions of the organization’s IT platform/infrastructure with the highest potential return for cloud deployment. Performs operations and maintenance of secure managed cloud platform solutions. Implements and maintains automation to enhance operation, alerting, and auto-remediation of events. Develops, maintains, and deploys infrastructure as code using CI/CD pipelines. Responsibilities

Create security-driven Azure enterprise architectures, enterprise systems, and service-oriented architectures.
Establish and execute detailed cloud migration project plans.
Drive cloud consulting engagements by providing technical and business insights to cloud strategy engagements, technology and architecture, deployments, cloud migrations, and portfolio management.
Lead the design and implementation of PaaS/IaaS services, constructs, and deployment methods using containerization, database-as-a-service, storage, and infrastructure automation.
Provide expertise in architecture and design of services and systems in support of the various customer applications through the organization and its security.
Participate in technical project review meetings to ensure technical designs meet the client’s operational requirements and infrastructure/security standards.
Educate and influence stakeholders and engineering teams on effective cloud solutions and best practices.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

Associates degree and 14+ years of experience; OR Bachelor’s degree and 12+ years of experience; OR Master’s Degree and 10+ years of experience; OR 7 years with PhD. However, four (4) years of additional relevant experience or specialized training will be considered in lieu of a Bachelor’s degree.
Active Secret clearance (TS/SCI preferred).
3+ years of experience in Microsoft Azure Government.
Experience in architecture of flexible, scalable, and highly-available systems.
Experience with containerization technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, AKS, EKS).
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (TerraForm, ARM templates, CloudFormation templates).
Experience using DevOps concepts and tools (GitLab, JIRA, Maven, Jenkins, Chef, Ansible).
Familiarity with DoD IT processes, regulations, and current IT cloud initiatives.

Required Certifications: IAT Level II (one or more in good standing)

CompTIA Security+,
SSCP (Systems Security Certified Practitioner),
CCNA Security,
CySA+,
GICSP,
GSEC

Cloud Security (one or more in good standing)

CCSP (Certified Cloud Security Professional),
Cloud+ (CompTIA Cloud Plus),
GCLD (GIAC Cloud Security Essentials),
GCSA (GIAC Cloud Security Automation)

Cloud (one or more in good standing)

Azure Solutions Architect Expert,
Azure Administrator Associate,
AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Professional/Associate)

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

$146,000 - $234,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

EEO

EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.

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What You Should Know About Senior Cloud Architect, Peraton

Are you ready to take your technical expertise to the next level? At Peraton in Linthicum, we're on the lookout for a Senior Cloud Architect who is eager to dive into hands-on cloud engineering and make a significant impact! In this pivotal role, you'll be migrating high-stakes workloads to the cloud, ensuring the utmost security and efficiency for the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3). You’ll lead the way in creating security-driven Azure enterprise architectures and engaging in comprehensive cloud migration projects. Your contributions will help in evaluating cloud management platforms, alongside developing and enriching our portfolio of cloud services. With a focus on automation, you will drive operational improvements and alerting systems that ensure a smooth functioning of our secure managed cloud solutions. Working closely with teams, you'll provide valuable insights into cloud strategies and influence stakeholders on best practices. If you have a knack for architecture and design with a background in Microsoft Azure Government, containerization, and Infrastructure as Code tools, we want you on our team. Join us at Peraton where your skills directly support our national security mission and where every day brings a new challenge to conquer. Let’s keep people safe together!

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for Senior Cloud Architect Role at Peraton

What responsibilities does a Senior Cloud Architect at Peraton have?

As a Senior Cloud Architect at Peraton, the responsibilities include leading the migration of sensitive workloads to the cloud, creating Azure enterprise architectures, and driving cloud consulting engagements. You'll also manage cloud services while enhancing automation to ensure operational excellence, making this role critical to our mission.