Junior Cloud Software Engineer
About The Position
This is a position on an integrated product development team. The candidate will have a primary focus of supporting all aspects of agile software design and development for a full featured service hosted on large scale compute clusters and AWS Cloud Infrastructure. Duties include design, development, testing and integration of capabilities, optimization & performance tuning, and operation & sustainment functions. Key Role: As a Cloud Software Engineer, you are 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. You are expected to communicate directions and provide guidance to more junior programmer/analysts, as required. Cloud Software Engineers must be adept at developing solutions which balance cost, capability, availability and resilience. Additionally, Cloud Software Engineers may be responsible for evaluating project needs, determining tasks and durations, and generating and reviewing designs for technical accuracy, completeness.
Requirements
- A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or in a related technical field from an accredited college or university is highly desired which will be considered equivalent to two (2) years of experience. NOTE: A degree in Mathematics, Information Systems, Engineering, or similar degree will be considered as a technical field.
- Shall have a total of at least 2 years of experience in software development/engineering, including requirements analysis, software development, installation, evaluation, enhancement, maintenance, and problem diagnosis/resolution.
- Understanding of how to construct Gherkin to capture the desired behavior of a system
- Active TS/SCI security clearance with current polygraph is required
- Experience with Large Language Models (LLM) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Proficiency in using AWS SDKs and APIs
- 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 techniques and container-orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes)
- Knowledge of security and compliance best practices
Responsibilities
- supporting all aspects of agile software design and development for a full featured service hosted on large scale compute clusters and AWS Cloud Infrastructure
- design, development, testing and integration of capabilities
- optimization & performance tuning
- operation & sustainment functions
- perform requirements analysis, software design, development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement, maintenance, testing, and problem diagnosis/resolution
- communicate directions and provide guidance to more junior programmer/analysts, as required
- developing solutions which balance cost, capability, availability and resilience
- evaluating project needs, determining tasks and durations, and generating and reviewing designs for technical accuracy, completeness
Benefits
- Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees supporting this critical National Security program, 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 eligibility to participate in an attractive bonus plan.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
