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Senior Cyber Software Engineer

Job in Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Maryland, 20900, USA
Listing for: Peraton
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-02-12
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    Software Engineer, DevOps, Cloud Engineer - Software
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 176000 - 282000 USD Yearly USD 176000.00 282000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

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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 Responsibilities
  • The Cyber Software Engineering, Senior Advisor implements, tests, and operates advanced software security techniques in compliance with technical reference architecture.
  • Performs ongoing security testing and code review to improve software security.
  • Troubleshoots and debugs issues that arise.
  • Provides engineering designs for new software solutions to help mitigate security vulnerabilities.
  • Contributes to all levels of the architecture and maintains technical documentation.
  • Consults team members on secure coding practices.
  • Develops a familiarity with new tools and best practices.
Basic Qualifications
  • TS/SCI with polygraph
  • Fourteen (14) years' experience as a SWE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, complexity is required.
  • A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Four (4) years of additional SWE experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.
Core Competencies and Skills
  • Experience in agile software development/engineering, including requirements analysis, software development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement, maintenance, testing, problem diagnosis/resolution, and source code management practices & tools.
  • Experience developing software with high level languages such as Java, C, C++ for distributed systems, with proficiency in networking, multi-threading and implementation of REST APIs
  • Experience with the Spring framework, messaging frameworks (Kafka, Rabbit

    MQ), streaming analytics (Apache Flink, Spark), management of containerized applications (Kubernetes).
  • Experience with Enabling tools (Git, Maven, Jira), Dev Ops (Bamboo, Jenkins, Git Lab Cl/Pipelines), Continuous Monitoring (ELK Stack (Elastic Search, Logstash and Kibana), Nagios)
  • Experience with Apache Hadoop, Apache Accumulo and Apache Ni Fi
  • Well-grounded in Linux fundamentals and familiarity with scripting languages (e.g., Python, Ruby, Perl, BASH, etc.)
  • Experience with AWS Cloud architecture, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Cloud security, and Automation (AWS Lambda, Cloud Formation)
Benefits

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, 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 eligible to participate in an attractive bonus plan.

Target Salary Range

Target Salary Range: $176,000 - $282,000. 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 individual's 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.

Application

Duration Statement

The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

EEO

Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.

Seniority level

Not Applicable

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Information Technology

Industries

Civil Engineering

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Position Requirements
10+ Years work experience
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