Infrastructure Automation Engineer - Infrastructure-as-Code

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.

Responsibilities

We are seeking Infrastructure Automation / Infrastructure-as-Code Engineers to design, develop, and maintain the reusable automation that provisions and manages infrastructure, tenant environments, and platform services across a complex hybrid environment.

This role will transform approved infrastructure patterns into source-controlled, repeatable, and scalable automation, enabling consistent provisioning across cloud and on-premises environments while integrating infrastructure delivery with service-request and CI/CD workflows.

The ideal candidate is an automation-focused infrastructure engineer who enjoys eliminating manual processes and building reusable solutions that improve the speed, consistency, and reliability of large-scale environment provisioning. You will work closely with cloud, Kubernetes, platform, and operations engineers to turn established engineering patterns into production-ready automation.

Responsibilities

Infrastructure-as-Code

• Develop and maintain reusable Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or comparable Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions.

• Create standardized environment and tenant templates based on approved deployment patterns.

• Maintain infrastructure definitions in source control using peer review and controlled change processes.

• Implement versioning, testing, rollback, and lifecycle-management practices for infrastructure automation.

• Develop reusable modules and automation patterns that support consistent infrastructure deployment across environments.

Provisioning & Automation

• Integrate infrastructure automation with CI/CD pipelines and service-request workflows.

• Support ServiceNow-driven provisioning where approved, including execution patterns for highly secure environments.

• Automate repeatable configuration activities across networking, compute, storage, identity, logging, and security.

• Develop validation and compliance checks to confirm provisioned resources meet approved configuration requirements.

• Identify opportunities to replace manual infrastructure activities with reliable, repeatable automation.

• Troubleshoot provisioning failures and improve automation based on recurring issues and operational feedback.

Hybrid Infrastructure & Tenant Support

• Develop and maintain automation across AWS classified cloud, other cloud environments, and on-premises infrastructure.

• Partner with Hybrid Cloud / Kubernetes Engineers to translate approved infrastructure patterns into reusable automation modules.

• Troubleshoot infrastructure state, dependency, configuration, and provisioning issues across environments.

• Support repeatable tenant onboarding and lifecycle-management processes.

• Continuously improve provisioning automation based on tenant onboarding requirements, platform changes, and operational lessons learned.

Engineering & Delivery

• Apply software-engineering practices to infrastructure automation, including source control, peer review, testing, versioning, and controlled releases.

• Collaborate with platform and engineering teams to ensure automation aligns with established architecture and operational requirements.

• Support infrastructure lifecycle activities as environments evolve and new capabilities are introduced.

• Document automation patterns, dependencies, and operational procedures to support maintainability and knowledge transfer.

Location: This position is fully onsite in Chantilly, VA

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with CI Polygraph.

• Approximately 5–8 years of experience in infrastructure, cloud, DevOps, automation engineering, or a related technical discipline.

• 5 years with BS/BA, An additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.

• Strong experience developing and maintaining Infrastructure-as-Code.

• Demonstrated experience with AWS and Linux environments.

• Experience with Git-based development workflows and CI/CD pipelines.

• Strong scripting skills using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or comparable languages.

• Experience troubleshooting automated provisioning, configuration, state, and dependency issues.

• Strong understanding of infrastructure automation, repeatability, version control, and controlled change practices.

Desired Qualifications

• Terraform experience.

• AWS CloudFormation experience.

• Ansible experience.

• GitLab CI/CD experience.

• Kubernetes and Helm experience.

• Experience supporting AWS classified-region environments.

• ServiceNow or API-driven provisioning integration experience.

• Experience developing reusable infrastructure modules or tenant-provisioning frameworks.

Target Salary Range

$112,000 - $179,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

Benefits Statement

Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.

Application Statements

The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in the role and the Company. During the review of your application, you may be required to participate in an on-camera interview, as well as participate in a process to verify your identity. Use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools of any kind during Peraton interviews is strictly prohibited unless the candidate has obtained prior written authorization. All interview responses must be the candidate’s own.

EEO

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