Lead Full Stack Software Engineer
About The Position
Peraton is seeking a Lead Full Stack Software Engineer to drive engineering for mission-critical intelligence software supporting an operational Intelligence Community mission. The role sets technical direction for a team building cloud-based SIGINT microservices and owns their architecture and technical roadmap while mentoring engineers and contributing hands-on with a modern software stack. The engineer leads development, integration, testing, deployment, and maintenance of highly available, resilient cloud-based software. The position is onsite for local candidates in Aurora, Colorado, or Melbourne, Florida, and includes scheduled on-call support and up to 10% travel for customer-hosted quarterly Program Management Reviews.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of relevant experience with a bachelor's degree; 6 years with a master's degree; 3 years with a Ph.D.; or 12 years of relevant experience without a degree.
- Active TS/SCI clearance with CI polygraph; U.S. citizenship required.
- Security+ certification, or ability to obtain it within 90 days of hire.
- Experience defining technical roadmaps, planning resources, and aligning engineering tasks with customer goals.
- Back-end development experience with Java and Spring/Spring Boot.
- Front-end proficiency with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and a modern framework such as Angular, React, or Vue.js.
- Hands-on experience with databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or similar.
- Experience with GitLab CI/CD, including Pipelines, SonarQube, SAST, NexusIQ, and dependency scanning.
- Experience with a cloud platform such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, and containerized systems.
- Experience provisioning environments and building, deploying, updating, and rolling back applications within them.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Java 17, JUnit 5, and Mockito.
- Hands-on experience with MongoDB.
- Experience with Kubernetes (RKE/RKE2), Docker, and Helm.
- Experience with messaging platforms such as RabbitMQ.
- Experience with PKI authentication and certificates, Keycloak, and OIDC.
- Experience with observability tools such as Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, and Alertmanager.
- Experience with Atlassian tools such as Jira and Confluence, and test automation tools such as Cucumber and Selenium.
- Understanding of systems engineering principles and documentation.
Responsibilities
- Architect solutions, define technical roadmaps, and align engineering work with customer goals.
- Plan resources, mentor engineers, and establish standards for code quality, testing, and security.
- Provide scheduled on-call support.
- Lead development, integration, testing, deployment, and maintenance of highly available, resilient cloud-based software.
- Stand up development, test, staging, and production environments.
- Drive automated build, deployment, and rollback through GitLab CI/CD.
- Work with analysts, systems engineers, and developers in an Agile environment.
- Brief project managers and customers, including at quarterly Program Management Reviews.
- Travel up to 10% to attend customer-hosted quarterly PMRs.
Benefits
- Heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for employees and dependents.
- 25 days of PTO accrued annually, up to a generous PTO cap.
- Ten company holidays per year.
- Annual merit assessments.
- Eligible participation in a bonus plan.
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- Life insurance.
- Health savings account.
- Short- and long-term disability.
- Employee assistance program (EAP).
- Parental leave.
- 401(k).
- Paid time off for vacation.
- Company-paid holidays.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
