Onsite opportunity in Laurel, Maryland. This Cloud Software Engineer Level 2 focuses on AI and ML for national security, building cloud-based AWS solutions and guiding software research, development, and integration across the lifecycle. The compensation range is USD 135,000 to USD 216,000 per year, with a comprehensive benefits package and a strong emphasis on collaboration and impact.
Benefits and culture
Peraton provides heavily subsidized benefits coverage for you and your dependents, a generous time-off policy, and conditions that support long-term growth in a mission-critical field. In addition to medical, dental, and vision, the package includes life insurance, a Health Savings Account, short-term and long-term disability, an Employee Assistance Program, parental leave, a 401(k) plan, paid time off for vacation, and company paid holidays. You may also be eligible to participate in an attractive bonus plan.
Responsibilities
- Analyze requirements to translate them into robust software solutions
- Develop software components and features
- Install, integrate, and validate software within cloud environments
- Evaluate and enhance existing systems
- Sustain, test, and diagnose issues to resolution
- Conduct cloud software research to advance technology capabilities
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field is highly desired and may be substituted as two years of experience
- Five or more years of directly related software development and engineering experience covering requirements analysis, development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement, maintenance, testing, and issue diagnosis
- Willingness to obtain one of the following Cloud Developer Certifications prior to start or already possessing one: AWS Certified Developer-Associate, AWS Certified Machine Learning-Associate, AWS Certified Machine Learning-Specialty, AWS DevOps Engineer Professional, or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
- Five years of overall software development/engineering experience
- Four or more years of software development using high-level languages such as Java, C, or C++
- Experience with OpenSource NoSQL products for distributed computing (examples include Hbase, Accumulo, Bigtable, etc.)
- Experience with MapReduce technologies and ecosystems (Hadoop, Hive, Pig, etc.)
- Experience with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
- Experience with JSON and/or BSON serialization
- Experience developing RESTful services
- At least three years of software development for UNIX/Linux systems (Red Hat versions 3–5)
- Experience in requirements analysis and design of at least one object-oriented system
- Experience integrating and extending FOSS/COTS products
- At least three years of software integration and software testing, including test plan and test script development
- Demonstrated technical writing skills and creation of technical documentation in support of software projects
Technologies
- AWS, AWS Cloud Architecture, AWS SDKs and APIs
- CloudFormation, Terraform
- Java, Linux, Python, Ruby, Perl
- Kubernetes
- Hadoop, Hive, Pig, HDFS
- JSON, BSON, Hbase, Accumulo, BigTable
- MapReduce, Hobbit, Ganglia
- LLMs, RAG, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch
- Agentic AI, RESTful services
Details
Target Salary Range: $135,000 – $216,000. Salary is determined by factors including scope and responsibilities, candidate experience, education, skills, and location, along with contract considerations. Overtime, shift differential, and discretionary bonuses may apply depending on the role.
Benefits statement
Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.
Application process
The application period for this role is estimated at 30 days from the posting date, though timelines may adjust based on business needs and candidate availability. By applying, you express interest in this position. You may be asked to participate in an on-camera interview and identity verification as part of the process.
Equal opportunity
Peraton is an equal opportunity employer, including for applicants with disabilities and protected veterans or other characteristics protected by law.
