Responsibilities

Are you passionate about building cutting-edge cloud solutions that support national security? Do you thrive in fast-paced, mission-driven environments? Peraton is seeking a talented and skilledCloud Software Engineerto join our Cyber Intelligence team inLaurel, MD.

As part of a collaborative, high-impact integrated product development team, youll work on next-generation cyber and AI/ML capabilities hosted on large-scale compute clusters and AWS Cloud infrastructure. This is your chance to help shape innovative services that make a real difference. Interested in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning? If so, this is the position for you.

The Cloud Software Engineer Level2Engineer providescloud software research, development, andengineering services to include requirements analysis, software development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement, sustainment, testing, validation, and issue diagnosis/resolution.

KeyTechnologies and Skills:

• Cloud Expertise:Deep experience in AWS Cloud Architecture, SDKs, APIs, and cloud services integration

• AI/ML Integration:Familiarity with Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) frameworks

• IaC& DevOps:Hands-on with CloudFormation or Terraform, and modern CI/CD pipelines

• Programming Proficiency:Strong in Java for distributed systems with a solid grasp of networking, multi-threading, and concurrency

• Containers & Orchestration:Knowledge of Kubernetes and microservices architecture

• Security-Minded:Working knowledge of cloud security principles and compliance best practices

• Scripting & Systems:Competent in Linux environments with scripting skills in Python, Ruby, Perl, or similar

it, Ganglia), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Large Language Model (LLM), Machine Learning (ML), AI/ML algorithms, statistical analysis, RAG, agents, and agentic workflow

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• ABachelor's Degree in Computer Scienceor in a related technical field ishighly desired which will be considered equivalent to two (2) years of experience.

• Five (5)or more years ofdirectly relatedexperience in software development/engineering; including requirements analysis, software development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement, maintenance, testing, and problem diagnosis/resolution

• 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)

• A minimum of five (5) years of experience in software development/engineering, including requirements analysis, software development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement, maintenance, testing, and problem diagnosis/resolution.

• A minimum of four(4) years of experience developing software with highlevel languages such as Java, C, C++

• Demonstratedability to work withOpenSource(NoSQL) products that support highly distributed, massively parallel computation needs such asHbase,Acumulo,Big Table, etc.

• Demonstratedwork experience with the Map Reduce programmingmodel and technologies such as Hadoop, Hive, Pig, etc.

• Demonstratedwork experience with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)

• Demonstratedwork experience with Serialization such as JSON and/or BSON

• Demonstratedwork experience developing Restful services

• At least three (3) years of experience developing software forUNIX/Linux (Redhatversions 3-5) operating systems.

• Demonstratedwork experience in the requirements analysis and design of at least one Object Oriented system.
• Demonstratedwork experience developing solutions integrating andextending FOSS/COTS products.
• At least three (3) years of experience in software integration and software testing, to include developing and implementing test plans and test scripts.
• Demonstratedtechnical writing skills and shall have generated technical documents in support of a software development project.

In addition, the candidate will havedemonstratedexperience,workor college level courses, in at least two (2) of the desired characteristics:

• Experience deploying applications in a cloud environment.
• Understanding of Big-Data Cloud Scalability (Amazon, Google, Facebook)
• Experience designing and developing automated analytic software, techniques, and algorithms.
• Experience with taxonomy construction for analytic disciplines, knowledgeareasand skills.
• Experience developing anddeploying:data driven analytics; event driven analytics; sets of analytics orchestrated through rules engines.
• Experience with linguistics (grammar, morphology, concepts).
• Experience developing and deploying analytics that discover and exploit social networks.
• Experience documenting ontologies, data models, schemas, formats, data element dictionaries, software application programinterfacesand other technical specifications.
• Experience developing and deploying analytics within a heterogeneous schema environment.

An Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required

DesiredQualifications:

• Experience with Large Language Models (LLM), Agentic AI, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
• Expertisein AWS Cloud Architecture design and development
• Proficiencyin using AWS SDKs and APIs
• Expertisein Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like CloudFormation or Terraform
• Skilled in Continuous Integration, Deployment, Testing and Monitoring practices
• Knowledge and skill in implementing and using observability tools (e.g.Elasticsearch, OpenSearch)
• 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

Benefits:

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on our critical programs, 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.

Target Salary Range$135,000 - $216,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individuals experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.