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Cloud Software Engineer, Advisor

2025-154957

CAtegory:

Engineering

Clearance:

Top Secret/SCI with Poly

Location:

Laurel
,
Maryland

Telecommute:

No remote/telework allowed
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 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.

Program Overview
Provides IC data management support to modernize mega data repositories, dataflow management, data provenance and compliance validation, and streaming solutions.
About The Role

Peraton is seeking a Cloud Software Engineer to join our Cyber Intel team here in Laurel, MD! This is a position on a product development team. The candidate will have a primary focus of supporting all aspects of agile software design and development for products that are integrated into systems on large scale compute clusters and AWS Cloud Infrastructure. Duties include design & development of new capabilities, testing, optimization and performance tuning, and operation & sustainment functions.

 

As a Cloud Software Engineer supporting this team, you would be expected to perform requirements analysis, software design, development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement, maintenance, testing, and problem diagnosis/resolution at a high level of proficiency and independence. The ability to communicate directions and provide guidance to more junior programmer/analysts is very important. You must be adept at developing solutions which integrated or extended COTS or GOTS products. Additionally, you may be responsible for evaluating project needs, determining tasks and durations, and generating and reviewing designs for technical accuracy, completeness.

 

Core Competencies and Skills:

  • Proficiency in using AWS SDKs and APIs
  • Expertise in AWS Cloud Architecture design
  • Deep understanding of AWS Services
  • Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like CloudFormation or Terraform
  • Expertise in Continuous Integration, Deployment, Testing and Monitoring practices
  • Java programming for distributed systems, with experience in networking and multi-threading
  • Agile development experience with source code management practices and tools
  • Well-grounded in Linux fundamentals and knowledge in at least one scripting language (e.g. Python, Ruby, Perl, etc.)
  • Familiarity with microservices software development technique and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes)
Qualifications

Position Requirements:

  • A Bachelor's degree in a technical field is required. NOTE: A Master's or higher will equal 2 additional years towards the years requirement below.
  • Eight (8) years of experience in software development/engineering, including requirements analysis, software development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement, maintenance, testing, and problem diagnosis/resolution.
  • At least six (6) years of experience developing software with high level languages such as Java, C,C++.
  • At least five (5) years of experience developing software for UNIX/Linux (Redhat versions 3-5) operating systems.
  • One of the following certifications:
    • AWS Certified Developer---Associate
    • AWS DevOps Engineer Professional
    • Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
    • Elastic Certified Engineer

Preferred Skills:

  • Apache Open Source Hadoop
  • Apache Open Source Accumulo
  • Apache Open Source NiFi
  • Knowledge of security and compliance best practices

 

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on our critical National Security programs, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and eligible to participate in an attractive bonus plan.

 

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SCA / Union / Intern Rate or Range

Details

Target Salary Range: $146,000 - $234,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

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

Employee Benefits

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.