Senior Cloud Software Engineer Top Secret/SCI w/Poly

Peraton•Laurel, MD
•$112,000 - $179,000•Onsite

About The Position

Peraton is seeking a Senior Cloud Software Engineer in Annapolis Junction, MD. This role involves supporting a rapidly developing team with new features, production systems, deploying updates, maintaining multiple services, and monitoring system health. Responsibilities include monitoring, maintaining, deploying, upgrading, CI/CD management, and maintaining security requirements for all systems on a cloud-based architecture. The engineer will contribute to architecture and design reviews, assist in shaping technical approaches, and interface with developers across the team for pipeline updates, deployment dates and requirements, and technical execution.

Requirements

  • 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
  • At least 8 years of experience in software engineering, including requirements analysis, software development, installation, evaluation, enhancement, maintenance, and problem diagnosis/resolution.
  • At least 4 years of experience with Java
  • At least 3 years of experience in software integration and software testing, to include developing and implementing test plans and test scripts.
  • 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.
  • A degree in Mathematics, Information Systems, Engineering, or similar degree will be considered as a technical field.
  • Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph clearance is required.
  • 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).
  • DevOps engineer for an AWS software stack
  • Experience with AWS
  • Grafana
  • Linux
  • Nagios
  • Git, Gitlab runners
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Docker
  • Security best practices
  • System redundancy and reliability best practices

Nice To Haves

  • Kubernetes
  • Apache Flink
  • Experience in an Agile team

Responsibilities

  • Support a rapidly developing team of new features, newly production system, deploy updates, maintain multiple services, and monitor system health.
  • Monitoring, maintaining, deploying, upgrading, CI/CD management, and maintaining security requirements for all the systems on a cloud-based architecture.
  • Contribute to architecture and design reviews, and assist in shaping technical approaches.
  • Interface with developers across the team for pipeline updates, deployment dates and requirements, and technical execution.

Benefits

  • Overtime
  • Shift differential
  • Discretionary bonus
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