Software Engineer - Cloud, Lead Associate - TS/SCI w/poly with Security Clearance
Why This Role Stands Out
Leverage your expertise as a Lead Associate Cloud Software Engineer at Peraton, a leading national security company, where you'll drive critical missions and benefit from a highly competitive salary range of $176,000 - $282,000 annually and the flexibility of a remote work environment. This role is ideal for a seasoned engineer ready to design, develop, and optimize complex cloud-based solutions, contributing to impactful projects while growing your skills within a reputable organization.
Quick Overview
Job Description
About Peraton Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace.
The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees solve the most daunting challenges that our customers face. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure. Program Overview Provides IC data management support to modernize mega data repositories, dataflow management, data provenance and compliance validation, and streaming solutions. About The Role The team is seeking a Senior Level Cloud Software Engineer.
This is a position on a large, complex product development team. The candidate will have a primary focus of supporting all aspects of agile software design and development for products that are integrated into systems on large scale compute clusters. Duties include design & development of new capabilities, testing, optimization & performance tuning, and operation & sustainment functions.
As a Senior 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 integrated or extended COTS or GOTS products.
Additionally, Cloud Software Engineers may be responsible for evaluating project needs, determining tasks and durations, creating/executing test cases, creating SOPs and Documentation, Code Reviews, and generating and reviewing designs for technical accuracy, completeness.
Core Required Competencies and Skills
- Strong experience with Java Programming
- Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Ansible and Puppet
- 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 technique and container-orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes)
- Familiarity with Containerization (e.g. Docker)
- Rotating Tier III On-Call Support & Emergency Surge Support may be required
- Work is in the customer office, regular/guaranteed telework is not generally supported at this time. (However, there are some tasks or research projects available ad hoc for teleworking by qualified team members.) #AJCM #PeratonRoyalMove #MDFSP Qualifications Basic Qualifications:
- High School Diploma / GED and 8 years of experience in software development/engineering, including requirements analysis, development, integration, testing, and troubleshooting.
- Note: Relevant education may be substituted for the required experience as follows:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field = 2 years of experience
- Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field = 4 years of experience
- Experience developing in high-level languages such as Java, C, or C++.
- Experience working in UNIX/Linux (RedHat-based) environments.
- Experience in software integration and testing, including test plan and script development.
- Active TS/SCI with Polygraph is required.
- Required Certification (one of the following):
- AWS Certified Developer - Associate
- AWS DevOps Engineer - Professional
- AWS Certified Machine Learning - Associate
- AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty
- Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)Preferred Qualifications:
- Apache Open-Source Hadoop
- Apache Open Source Accumulo
- Apache Open Source NiFi
- MongoDB
- Message Brokers (e.g. ActiveMQ)
- Spring Framework, Python, and Bash
- Knowledge of security and compliance best practices
- AWS Cloud experience, hybrid cloud environments, and similar commercial cloud technologiesWhy Join Peraton?
- Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees supporting this critical National Security mission, including:
- Heavily subsidized medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and eligible dependents
- 25 days of PTO accrued annually
- 10 paid holidays each year
- Annual bonus opportunity tied to mission performance
- Access to challenging, mission-focused work utilizing modern cloud technologies at enterprise scale
Benefits Statement: Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.
Application Statements: The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in the role and the Company. During the review of your application, you may be required to participate in an on-camera interview, as well as participate in a process to verify your identity.
EEO:Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.
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