Director, Cloud Computing

Peraton is seeking for a Cloud Technical Director. This individual will be supporting our FRB program and will join a high performing team.

What you will do:

This role will work collaboratively with a team of like-minded architects and senior engineers identifying and creating solutions for a variety of enterprise computing infrastructures and application scenarios, with a focus on AWS cloud technologies.
• Share proven practices, patterns, products and applications from other engagements across Peraton and from previous experience to develop sustainable solutions leveraged across multiple boundaries.
• Holding responsibility for helping to define the technical cloud strategy for our client;
• Working closely with all stakeholders to validate technology decisions to support product capabilities now and for the future; and guiding it successfully through its execution.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and 16 plus years of experience with last 5 years in cloud technologies.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
• Must have solid leadership abilities to work both within the technology organization and with external business partners and consumers to achieve and measure IT business objectives.
• Collaborative and highly adaptable working style; strong communication skills; polish and poise when presenting and experience working within a C-Suite environment.
• Experience implementing IaaS, PaaS and SaaS workloads in public, private and hybrid cloud deployment models.
• Extensive background working with AWS cloud technologies and strategies including transformation planning and execution.
• Extensive experience working with cloud native hosting solutions such as Containers, Docker, Infrastructure as Code and technologies from Amazon.
• Deep understanding of Infrastructure and Platform Automation technology products such as Puppet, Ansible, and Chef Technologies.
• Experience in successfully delivering cloud-based solutions on Amazon AWS.
• Essential knowledge and experience with core infrastructure technologies including: Networking, Servers, Storage, Operating Systems (Windows Server and Linux), Virtualization, Databases and related technologies.
• Familiarity with Cloud compliance, quality and contracting FEDRAMP, SoC, NIST, FISMA, ISO.
• Significant experience with IT Strategy and Technology Service Management.
• Expertise and background working with standard multi-tier platform architectures Java, message queuing, streaming, RDBMS, and file and object-based architectures.
• Strong understanding and knowledge of industry technology standards, compliance activities and experience working with audit and regulatory bodies.
• Skilled working with multiple vendors and business groups and ability to lead large efforts with many stakeholder groups from Proof of Concept and through development into production implementations.
• Comprehensive process management creation and maturity experience within a Service Management organization primarily with an AGILE, LEAN or SaFE driven methodology.
• Must be a US Citizen
• Must be able to obtain and maintain the required agency clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Extensive ROI and Business Case development experience - the experience necessary to be able to confidently predict and forecast possible outcomes.
• Experience working with or in financial services or other highly regulated industries.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
• Familiar with Oracle, WebSphere and WebLogic

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.