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Peraton•Laurel, MD

37d•$146,000 - $234,000•Onsite

About The Position

Peraton is seeking a Cloud Software Engineer to join its Cyber Intelligence team in Laurel, Maryland. The role is part of an integrated product development team building cyber and AI/ML capabilities hosted on large-scale compute clusters and AWS Cloud infrastructure. The engineer provides cloud software research, development, and engineering services across requirements analysis, software development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement, sustainment, testing, validation, and issue diagnosis and resolution. The work involves cloud architecture and services, AI/ML integration, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, distributed Java software, containers and orchestration, cloud security, and Linux-based systems and scripting. The position requires an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph and a qualifying cloud developer certification, held or obtained before the start date. Peraton describes the role as supporting a critical National Security program.

Requirements

Minimum eight years of software development or engineering experience, including requirements analysis, development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement, maintenance, testing, and problem diagnosis and resolution; the posting also separately states eight or more years of directly related experience.
Minimum six years of experience developing software with high-level languages such as Java, C, or C++.
Demonstrated ability to work with open-source NoSQL products supporting highly distributed, massively parallel computation, such as HBase, Accumulo, or Bigtable.
Demonstrated experience with the MapReduce programming model and technologies such as Hadoop, Hive, or Pig.
Demonstrated experience with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).
Demonstrated experience with serialization formats such as JSON or BSON.
Demonstrated experience developing RESTful services.
At least five years of software development experience for UNIX/Linux operating systems; the posting specifies Red Hat versions 3–5.
Demonstrated experience in requirements analysis and design for at least one object-oriented system.
Demonstrated experience developing solutions that integrate and extend FOSS/COTS products.
At least three years of software integration and testing experience, including developing and implementing test plans and scripts.
Demonstrated technical writing skills and experience generating technical documents for a software development project.
Experience deploying applications in a cloud environment.
Experience developing and deploying data-driven analytics, event-driven analytics, and sets of analytics orchestrated through rules engines.
Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
Must have, or be willing to obtain before starting, one of the listed cloud developer certifications: AWS Certified Developer—Associate; AWS Certified Machine Learning—Associate; AWS Certified Machine Learning—Specialty; AWS DevOps Engineer Professional; or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD).
Demonstrated work experience in at least four of the desired characteristics listed in the posting, including big-data cloud scalability; automated analytics; analytics involving language, multimedia, massive data sets, semantic relationships, latent patterns, or AI techniques; taxonomy construction; linguistics; social-network analytics; documenting ontologies and technical data specifications; or analytics in heterogeneous schema environments.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; the posting says this is highly desired and considers it equivalent to two years of experience.
Master’s degree in a technical field; considered equivalent to four years of experience.
Experience with Large Language Models (LLMs), Agentic AI, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
Expertise in AWS Cloud Architecture design and development.
Proficiency with AWS SDKs and APIs.
Expertise with infrastructure-as-code tools such as CloudFormation or Terraform.
Skill in continuous integration, deployment, testing, and monitoring practices.
Knowledge and skill implementing and using observability tools such as Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.
Java programming for distributed systems, including networking and multithreading.
Agile development experience and familiarity with source-code management practices and tools.
Linux fundamentals and scripting in a language such as Python, Ruby, or Perl.
Familiarity with microservices and container orchestration such as Kubernetes.
Knowledge of cloud security and compliance best practices.

Responsibilities

Provide cloud software research, development, and engineering services.
Analyze requirements and develop, install, integrate, evaluate, enhance, sustain, test, and validate software.
Diagnose and resolve software issues.
Develop and deploy applications and analytics in cloud environments.
Contribute to cyber and AI/ML capabilities hosted on large-scale compute clusters and AWS Cloud infrastructure.
Develop software, including distributed systems and RESTful services, and integrate or extend FOSS/COTS products.
Develop and implement software test plans and test scripts.
Generate technical documentation in support of software development projects.

Benefits

Heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for employees and dependents supporting the program.
25 days of PTO accrued annually, up to a generous PTO cap.
Eligibility to participate in a bonus plan.
Potential eligibility for professional development opportunities, training, certification programs, and skill-building experiences.
Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
Health savings account.
Short- and long-term disability coverage.
Employee assistance program (EAP).
Parental leave.
401(k).
Paid time off for vacation.
Company-paid holidays.