External Title Site Reliability - Java Springboot

Responsibilities

Peraton is seeking a Site reliability Engineer in Herndon, VA or Aurora, CO to support Intelligence Community and DoD customers as part of a talented, high-performing team. As part of this team you will work with emerging service and distributed computing technologies for satellite situational awareness (SSA) data processing and distribution.

The EMMETT program, a next gen Space Domain Awareness (SDA) Indications and Warning (I&W) system, establishes a repository of resident space objects (RSOs), finds RSOs of interest, and provides data to ground operators. The EMMETT team uses: programmatics, sensor modeling, and system engineering expertise to deliver this world-class SDA I&W system.

What you'll do:

• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve issues across Java Spring Boot applications, distributed services, and supporting infrastructure in classified environments.
• Investigate production incidents, perform root cause analysis, implement corrective actions, and drive continuous service improvements to enhance system stability and operational resilience.
• Develop, enhance, and maintain application code, automation scripts, and tooling that improve system performance, operational efficiency, and maintainability.
• Support the implementation and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines, ensuring secure, repeatable, and automated software delivery processes within classified environments.
• Manage source code repositories, branching strategies, and software baselines using Git-based version control platforms such as Git Lab and Bitbucket.
• Perform system upgrades, patching, configuration management, and release activities while minimizing operational impact to mission systems.
• Partner with development teams to optimize application observability through logging, monitoring, alerting, and performance tuning initiatives.
• Support deployment, administration, and troubleshooting of modern data processing and containerized technologies including Kubernetes, Kafka, NiFi, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, and ArgoCD.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily standups, and retrospectives to support rapid delivery of mission capabilities.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, troubleshooting guides, and system support artifacts.
• Participate in technical review boards, discrepancy review boards, and release readiness activities to ensure mission and operational requirements are met.
• Provide after-hours operational support on a rotational on-call basis and respond to critical system issues as required.

Required Qualifications:

• A Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of relevant experience, OR Masters degree with 3+ years experience. Additional four (4) years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• This position requires the candidate possess a minimum of TS clearance with SCI eligibility and the ability to pass a polygraph within 30 days of employment or at customers request- contract requires TS/SCI with poly. The candidate must maintain the clearance.
• Prior Experience in SRE, Dev Ops, Systems Engineering or Software Engineering Roles
• Experience with supporting, troubleshooting, and performing maintenance activities for Java Springboot applications
• Experience with writing source code for new applications or generating and enhancing code samples for existing applications, and using back-end and front-end languages to develop complete solutions
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines built for classified environments, and Agile methodology
• Experience with version control systems, including Bitbucket and Git Lab
• Ability to provide call-in support after hours on a rotational basis
• Ability to troubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve software issues quickly and efficiently, and assist customers with technical issues via phone or email
• DOD 8570 or 8140 IAT Level II Certification, such as Security+ CE, SSCP, CySA+, CCNA-Security, CND, GICSP, or GSEC Certification, or IAT level III Certification

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active/current TS/SCI with poly
• Experience with NiFi, Kafka, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, or ArgoCD
• Experience with producing and maintaining technical…