External Title Cloud Software Engineer Level 2 – AI​/ML TS​/SCI w​/Poly

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 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 Level2

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

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),JSONand/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

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 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 highlevel languages such as Java, C, C++
• Demonstratedability to work with
  
  OpenSource(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 forUNIX/Linux (Redhatversions 3-5) operating systems.
• Demonstrated work experience in the requirements analysis and design of at least one Object Oriented system.
• Demonstrated work experience developing solutions integrating and extending 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.
• Demonstrated technical 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 and deploying: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…