Cloud Software Engineer – AI​/ML Project Top Secret​/SCI w​/Poly

Basic Qualifications:

• 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.
  
  NOTE:
  
  A degree in Mathematics, Information Systems, Engineering, or similar degree will be considered as a technical field.
• Two (2) 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 2 years of experience in software development/engineering, including requirements analysis, software development, installation, evaluation, enhancement, maintenance, and problem diagnosis/resolution.
• Have demonstrated ability to work with Open Source (No
  
  SQL) products that support highly distributed, massively parallel computation needs such as Hbase, Accumulo, Big Table, etc.
• Have at least one (1) year of experience developing software with high level languages such as Java, C, C++, et cetera.
• Minimum of two (2) years of experience in software integration and software testing, to include developing and implementing test plans and test scripts
• An Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required

Preferred, not required, to have one of the following Cloud Developer

Certifications:

• AWS Certified Developer-Associate
• AWS Certified Machine Learning-Associate
• AWS Certified Machine Learning-Specialty
• AWS Dev Ops Engineer Professional
• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

• Demonstrated experience with Open Source (No
  
  SQL) products that support highly distributed, massively parallel computation needs such as Hbase, Accumulo, and/or Big Table
• Demonstrated experience with Map/Reduce and/or Hadoop, Hive, and/or Pig
• Demonstrated experience with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
• Demonstrated experience with Big-Data Cloud Scalability (e.g. Amazon, Google, and/or Facebook)
• Demonstrated experience designing and developing web applications with Java Script
• Demonstrated experience designing and developing automated analytic software, techniques, and algorithms
• Demonstrated experience with compute cluster monitoring tools (e.g. Hobbit, Ganglia)
• Demonstrated experience with Accumulo internals, to include configuring, tuning, and testing Accumulo in many configurations (>200 node clusters)
• Competencies and
  
  Skills:
• Experience with Large Language Models (LLM), Agentic AI, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
• Expertise in AWS Cloud Architecture design and development
• Proficiency in using AWS SDKs and APIs
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Cloud Formation or Terraform
• Skilled in Continuous Integration, Deployment, Testing and Monitoring practices
• Knowledge and skill in implementing and using observability tools (e.g. Elasticsearch, Open Search)
• 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

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.

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