Senior Cloud Administrator
Peraton · UNAVAILABLE, UNAVAILABLE, US
About this role
## Senior Cloud Administrator (Remote) ### Overview Peraton is seeking an experienced, detail-oriented **Senior Cloud Administrator** to support the **DOI USGS Permitting Modernization and Cloud Infrastructure** program on the **WARP** platform. This is a **fully remote, hands-on** role serving as the day-to-day operational owner of **AWS cloud infrastructure** for a diverse development and government workforce across **fully separated dev, test, staging, and production** environments. ### What You’ll Do - Administer and maintain **all AWS cloud environments** (dev, test, staging, production) for the WARP permitting platform, ensuring **availability, performance, and security**. - Manage **AWS Marketplace subscriptions** (procurement, provisioning, renewal, decommissioning of approved runtime subscriptions). - Monitor environment health and performance using **AWS CloudWatch** and other observability tools; **triage and remediate** alerts, incidents, and service disruptions. - Manage **AWS support tickets** and coordinate with AWS technical teams to resolve platform-level issues, service limits, and infrastructure anomalies. - Control and manage **consumption throttling** for compute, storage, AI/ML, and data services (in coordination with the **FinOps Cloud Engineer**) to prevent budget overruns. - Administer data operations including: - Cross-AZ / cross-region data transfer - **AWS KMS** key management - **CloudTrail** audit logging - Centralized **S3 log archival** - **AWS Backup** configurations - Manage **Databricks** cluster provisioning, storage, and networking within the DOI-designated environment. - Administer user access and personnel tracking for contractor and Government personnel; **notify the COR** upon personnel departure or role change. - Execute and maintain required security documentation (e.g., **security agreements, NDAs, Rules of Behavior**) for personnel with unsupervised USGS system access. - Support **C&A documentation**, contingency plans (per **NIST SP 800-34**), and security assessment materials. - Perform system administration **only within Government-designated environments** (no Peraton-owned storage/systems for Government data). - Complete mandatory annual **DOI IT Security Awareness Training** and maintain compliance with **DOI, FISMA, and FedRAMP** security policies. ### Qualifications **Basic Qualifications** - Bachelor’s degree + **10 years** experience, or Master’s + **8 years**, or Associate’s + **12 years**, or High School + **14 years** - **U.S. Citizenship required**; ability to obtain and maintain a **Public Trust** clearance - Work must be performed **within the United States** (no international work) - **5+ years** hands-on system or cloud administration, including **3+ years** in **AWS** environments - Demonstrated experience administering **multi-environment AWS** platforms (dev/test/staging/prod) at enterprise/federal scale - Proficiency with AWS core services: **EC2, S3, Lambda, Fargate, ECS/EKS, VPC, AWS Backup** - Hands-on experience with **IAM policies, SCPs, Service Quotas, and AWS Organizations access governance** - Hands-on experience with **AWS KMS, CloudTrail, CloudWatch**, and centralized log archival to S3 - Experience managing **AWS Marketplace subscriptions** and procurement workflows - Knowledge of **IAM best practices** / least privilege / federated identity - Understanding of ETL pipelines and data platform operations in cloud environments - Familiarity with **Da
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