GEOINT Platform 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 GEOINT Platform Engineers to develop, operate, and sustain cloud-based platform services and runtime environments supporting mission applications and tenant workloads.

The role focuses on standardized application hosting, multi-tenant platform environments, tenant configuration, deployment integration, performance, capacity, and application lifecycle management. The ideal candidate brings strong cloud and Kubernetes experience along with the ability to support production mission applications and complex platform environments.

Responsibilities

Platform & Tenant Engineering

• Build, configure, and operate standardized tenant environments across approved security domains.
• Support repeatable development, test, staging, production, and recovery environment patterns.
• Maintain tenant-specific configuration and deployment integrations while preserving common platform standards.
• Support self-service provisioning capabilities for authorized users and administrators.
• Develop and maintain repeatable platform configurations and deployment processes.
• Troubleshoot platform and tenant-environment issues and coordinate resolution with appropriate engineering teams.

Mission Application Hosting & Integration

• Host and operate mission applications using standardized cloud and containerized runtime environments.
• Design, configure, and operate shared application-processing and platform services.
• Integrate applications with common platform services, data services, and approved external systems.
• Support application deployment, scaling, lifecycle management, retirement, logging, monitoring, and alerting.
• Collaborate with application development teams to ensure applications are properly integrated with platform capabilities and operational requirements.

Operations, Capacity & Performance

• Monitor service availability, resource utilization, application performance, and platform capacity across tenant environments.
• Perform capacity and performance analysis and recommend infrastructure or configuration changes to maintain service reliability.
• Support resource utilization tracking, cost analysis, forecasting, and rightsizing recommendations.
• Troubleshoot complex application-hosting, platform, and processing issues.
• Participate in Tier 3/4 support, production operations, and scheduled maintenance activities.
• Support continuous improvement of platform reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.

Location

This position is fully onsite in Chantilly, VA.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with CI Polygraph.
• BS/BA and 5+ years of experience, an additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Approximately 5–8 years of experience in cloud, platform, infrastructure, mission application, or related systems engineering.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized environments.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and cloud-based application hosting.
• Experience operating application-hosting or multi-tenant environments.
• Strong platform, systems, and application troubleshooting skills.
• Experience supporting production services and application lifecycle activities.
• Experience with deployment, configuration, monitoring, and operational support of enterprise applications.
• Strong analytical, communication, and technical documentation skills.

Desired Qualifications

Experience with one or more of the following:

• GEOINT or geospatial mission systems.
• Mission application hosting or comparable large-scale enterprise platforms.
• AWS or other cloud environments supporting secure or restricted workloads.
• GitLab and CI/CD pipelines.
• Geospatial processing technologies.
• Multi-tenant platform capacity, utilization, or cost management.
• Infrastructure as Code and automated deployment practices.
• Experience supporting classified or highly regulated enterprise environments.

Details

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