Processing and Analytic Capabilities Software Engineering Advisor

Peraton • Fort Meade, MD

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About The Position

Peraton is hiring an experienced Software Engineer (SWE) to support the government’s Processing and Analytic Capabilities Office initiatives related to their High Performance Computing (HPC) program. These programs are cutting edge and include everything from HPC test planning and execution, architecture design and prototyping, and vendor outreach and collaboration support. The SWE will support work across teams to write or enable queries for specialized metrics collection products and ensure that system performance is maintained. As a result the candidate must have leadership skills and/or experience with leading an effort, and be communicative, collaborative, and organized. The ideal candidate should be able to: work independently, as well as with a team, to ensure that all components are functioning properly; must be willing to stay abreast of latest industry trends in both open source and commercial metrics and monitoring solutions; be capable of supporting determination of if-and-when to incorporate them into an IaC solution; and be willing to and able to learn new tools and protocols. #AJCM

Requirements

• Position requires an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline from an accredited college or university plus ten (10) years of software engineering experience, OR High School Diploma or GED plus fourteen (14) years of software engineering experience.
• Software architecture and design planning
• DevOps or sustainment/life-cycle management of system-operational software or services
• Telemetry data
• Implementing and documenting dataflow or system-telemetry pipeline
• Dara movement and volume estimations
• Linux, Linux tools, Bash scripting
• Programming in Python
• Familiar with and able to perform full software-development lifecycle support with version-control tools (Git, GitLab)

Nice To Haves

• Splunk, Elastic, syslog-ng, ryslog, Kafka, Logstash, and/or Ansible
• Message brokers and data movement tools
• Data analysis

Responsibilities

• support work across teams to write or enable queries for specialized metrics collection products and ensure that system performance is maintained
• work independently, as well as with a team, to ensure that all components are functioning properly
• stay abreast of latest industry trends in both open source and commercial metrics and monitoring solutions
• be capable of supporting determination of if-and-when to incorporate them into an IaC solution
• be willing to and able to learn new tools and protocols

Benefits

• Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, which includes 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees