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 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

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 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 highlevel 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, Accumulo, 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 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 have demonstrated experience, work or 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, knowledge areas and skills.
• Experience developing and deploying: data driven analytics; event driven analytics; sets of analytics orchestrated through rules engines.
• Experience with linguistics (grammar,…