Senior Hybrid Cloud / Kubernetes 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

We are seeking a Senior Hybrid Cloud / Kubernetes Engineer to design, build, operate, and sustain the cloud and on-premises infrastructure supporting platform services and mission-critical workloads in highly secure environments. This role offers the opportunity to work across AWS classified environments, Kubernetes platforms, on-premises infrastructure, networking, storage, security controls, and tenant services. The ideal candidate brings deep hands-on infrastructure expertise and understands how to engineer reliable, scalable, and consistent solutions across cloud, on-premises, and restricted deployment environments. As part of a highly technical engineering team, you will help build and operate hybrid infrastructure, support growing tenant environments, troubleshoot complex platform issues, and contribute to the reliability, resiliency, and performance of mission-critical systems.

Responsibilities

• Cloud & Platform Engineering: Design, deploy, configure, and operate AWS infrastructure supporting shared services, mission hosting, and tenant environments.
• Deploy, configure, and operate Kubernetes and container platforms, including EKS or comparable technologies.
• Engineer and support compute, storage, load balancing, DNS, ingress, egress, and supporting platform services.
• Evaluate and support workload placement decisions based on mission, security, performance, connectivity, and operational requirements.
• Develop and maintain scalable, repeatable infrastructure patterns across diverse deployment environments.
• Hybrid Infrastructure: Integrate cloud environments with on-premises and restricted-network infrastructure.
• Maintain common platform patterns where practical while accounting for the unique requirements and constraints of different deployment environments.
• Support backup, recovery, resiliency, capacity, patching, and platform lifecycle activities.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues spanning cloud, Kubernetes, storage, networking, and operating systems.
• Support the reliability, scalability, and operational performance of production infrastructure across hybrid environments.
• Tenant & Shared-Service Support: Support standardized tenant infrastructure and reusable environment patterns.
• Partner with Infrastructure-as-Code engineers to ensure infrastructure can be provisioned and maintained through controlled, repeatable automation.
• Support platform services including identity, CI/CD, observability, repositories, and mission-hosting dependencies.
• Participate in Tier 3/4 troubles