Cloud Software Engineer Level 2 - AI​/ML TS​/SCI w​/Poly Security Clearance

Position: Cloud Software Engineer Level 2 - AI/ML TS/SCI w/Poly with Security Clearance
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  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 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 skilled

Cloud Software Engineer to join our Cyber Intelligence team in Laurel, MD. As part of a collaborative, high-impact integrated product development team, you'll 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 Level 2 Engineer provides cloud software research, development, and engineering services to include requirements analysis, software development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement, sustainment, testing, validation, and issue diagnosis/resolution. Key Technologies 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 & Dev Ops:

Hands-on with Cloud Formation 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 #MPOJobs #Peraton Royal Move  #MDFSP Python, Java, C, C++, Hbase, Accumulo, Big Table, Map Reduce programming model and technologies such as Hadoop, Hive, Pig, etc., Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), JSON and/or BSON. Taxonomy, Ontologies, and Big-Data Cloud Scalability (Amazon, Google, Facebook), cluster monitoring tools (e.g. Hobbit, Ganglia), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Large Language Model (LLM), Machine Learning (ML), AI/ML algorithms, statistical analysis, RAG, agents, and agentic workflow Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

* A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or in a related technical field is highly desired which will be considered equivalent to two (2) years of experience.
* Five (5) 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
* 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 Dev Ops 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 high level languages such as Java, C, C++
* Demonstrated ability to work with Open Source (No

SQL) products that support highly distributed, massively parallel computation needs such as Hbase, Acumulo, Big Table, etc.
* Demonstrated work experience with the Map Reduce programming model and technologies such as Hadoop, Hive, Pig, etc.

* Demonstrated work experience with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
* Demonstrated work experience with Serialization such as JSON and/or BSON
* Demonstrated work experience developing Restful services
* At least three (3) years of experience developing software for UNIX/Linux (Redhat versions 3-5) operating systems.
* Demonstrated work experience in the requirements…