Cloud Software Engineer Level 3 � AI/ML Project 3 TS/SCI w Poly

Peraton • Laurel, MD

20h • Onsite

About The Position

Are you passionate about building cutting-edge cloud solutions that support national security? Do you thrive in fast-paced, mission-driven environments? Peraton is seeking a talented and skilled Cloud Software Engineer to join our Cyber Intelligence team in Laurel, MD. As part of a collaborative, high-impact integrated product development team, you’ll work on next-generation cyber and AI/ML capabilities hosted on large-scale compute clusters and AWS Cloud infrastructure. This is your chance to help shape innovative services that make a real difference. Interested in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning? If so, this is the position for you. The Cloud Software Engineer Level 3 Engineer provides cloud software research, development, and engineering services to include requirements analysis, software development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement, sustainment, testing, validation, and issue diagnosis/resolution.

Requirements

• A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or in a related technical field is highly desired which will be considered equivalent to two (2) years of experience. A Master's degree in a Technical Field will be considered equivalent to four (4) years of experience. NOTE: A degree in Mathematics, Information Systems, Engineering, or similar degree will be considered as a technical field.
• Hadoop /Cloud Developer Certification or comparable Cloud System/Service Certification
• Minimum eight (8) years of experience in software development/engineering, including requirements analysis, software development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement, maintenance, testing, and problem diagnosis/resolution.
• Eight (8) or more years of directly related experience in software development/engineering; including requirements analysis, software development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement, maintenance, testing, and problem diagnosis/resolution
• Minimum six (6) years of experience developing software with high level languages such as Java, C, C++
• Demonstrated ability to work with OpenSource (NoSQL) products that support highly distributed, massively parallel computation needs such as Hbase, Acumulo, Big Table, etc.
• Demonstrated work experience with the Map Reduce programming model and technologies such as Hadoop, Hive, Pig, etc.
• Demonstrated work experience with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
• Demonstrated work experience with serialization such as JSON and/or BSON
• Demonstrated work experience developing Restful services
• At least five (5) years of experience developing software for UNIX/Linux (Redhat versions 3-5) operating systems.
• Demonstrated work experience in the requirements analysis and design of at least one Object Oriented system.
• Demonstrated work experience developing solutions integrating and extending FOSS/COTS products.
• At least three (3) years of experience in software integration and software testing, to include developing and implementing test plans and test scripts.
• Demonstrated technical writing skills and shall have generated technical documents in support of a software development project.
• Experience deploying applications in a cloud environment.
• Experience developing and deploying: data driven analytics; event driven analytics; sets of analytics orchestrated through rules engines.
• In addition, the candidate will have demonstrated work experience in at least four (4) of the desired characteristics:
• Understanding of Big-Data Cloud Scalability (Amazon, Google, Facebook)
• Experience designing and developing automated analytic software, techniques, and algorithms.
• Experience developing and deploying: analytics that include foreign language processing; analytic processes that incorporate/integrate multi-media technologies, including speech, text, image and video exploitation; analytics that function on massive data sets, for example, more than a billion rows or larger than 10 Petabytes; analytics that employ semantic relationships (i.e., inference engines) between structured and unstructured data sets; analytics that identify latent patterns between elements of massive data sets, for example more than a billion rows or larger than 10 Petabytes; analytics that employ techniques commonly associated with Artificial Intelligence, for example genetic algorithms.
• Experience with taxonomy construction for analytic disciplines, knowledge areas and skills.
• Experience with linguistics (grammar, morphology, concepts).
• Experience developing and deploying analytics that discover and exploit social networks.
• Experience documenting ontologies, data models, schemas, formats, data element dictionaries, software application program interfaces and other technical specifications.
• Experience developing and deploying analytics within a heterogeneous schema environment.
• Must have, or be willing to obtain prior to start, one of the following Cloud Developer Certifications: AWS Certified Developer-Associate AWS Certified Machine Learning-Associate AWS Certified Machine Learning-Specialty AWS DevOps Engineer Professional Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
• An Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required

Nice To Haves

• Deep experience in AWS Cloud Architecture, SDKs, APIs, and cloud services integration
• Familiarity with Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) frameworks
• Hands-on with CloudFormation or Terraform, and modern CI/CD pipelines
• Strong in Java for distributed systems with a solid grasp of networking, multi-threading, and concurrency
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and microservices architecture
• Working knowledge of cloud security principles and compliance best practices
• Competent in Linux environments with scripting skills in Python, Ruby, Perl, or similar
• Experience with Large Language Models (LLM), Agentic AI, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
• Expertise in AWS Cloud Architecture design and development
• Proficiency in using AWS SDKs and APIs
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like CloudFormation or Terraform
• Skilled in Continuous Integration, Deployment, Testing and Monitoring practices
• Knowledge and skill in implementing and using observability tools (e.g. Elasticsearch, OpenSearch)
• 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 techniques and container-orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes)

Responsibilities

• Provides cloud software research, development, and engineering services to include requirements analysis, software development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement, sustainment, testing, validation, and issue diagnosis/resolution.
• Work on next-generation cyber and AI/ML capabilities hosted on large-scale compute clusters and AWS Cloud infrastructure.
• Help shape innovative services that make a real difference.

Benefits

• Heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents
• 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap
• Eligibility to participate in an attractive bonus plan
• Enhanced professional development opportunities, including training, certification programs, and skill-building experiences tailored to individual strengths, career goals, and role-specific requirements.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior