Cloud Software Engineer AI/ML Project Top Secret/SCI w/Poly

Peraton; Maryland; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO

Competitive Bonus Plan

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Cloud Software Engineer to join our Cyber Intelligence team in Laurel, MD. The role emphasizes building cutting-edge cloud solutions, AI/ML capabilities, and large-scale data processing on AWS and on-premise clusters.

The engineer will contribute to requirements analysis, software development, installation, integration, testing, and sustainment for mission-critical systems. Expect collaboration across cross-functional teams using Java, C++, Python, and big data tools.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related field; equivalent experience considered.
• 2+ years in software development/engineering with requirements analysis, development, testing, and maintenance.
• Experience with OpenSource NoSQL products for distributed computing.
• 1+ year developing software in Java, C, C++, or similar languages.
• 2+ years in software integration and testing, including test plans and scripts.
• Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required.
• Comfort with cloud technologies and large-scale data processing.

Responsibilities

• Develop and integrate cloud-based software capabilities on AWS.
• Work with distributed data stores (HBase, Accumulo, BigTable) and Hadoop ecosystem tools.
• Design, develop, test, and deploy software components for AI/ML capabilities.
• Collaborate with teams on CI/CD pipelines and observability tooling.
• Participate in security/compliance best practices for national security workloads.
• Contribute to web applications and data processing pipelines using JavaScript/Java/Scala as needed.

Skills

OpenSource NoSQL

Java

C++

Python

Distributed systems

AWS Cloud

Kubernetes

Hadoop/Hive/Pig

LLM/AI/ML

CI/CD/Automation

Linux

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

HBase

Accumulo

BigTable

HDFS

Terraform/AWS CDK

Job description

Basic Qualifications:

• A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or in a related technical field from an accredited college or university is highly desired which will be considered equivalent to two (2) years of experience. NOTE: A degree in Mathematics, Information Systems, Engineering, or similar degree will be considered as a technical field.
• Two (2) 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
• At least 2 years of experience in software development/engineering, including requirements analysis, software development, installation, evaluation, enhancement, maintenance, and problem diagnosis/resolution.
• Have demonstrated ability to work with OpenSource (NoSQL) products that support highly distributed, massively parallel computation needs such as Hbase, Accumulo, Big Table, etc.
• Have at least one (1) year of experience developing software with high level languages such as Java, C, C++, et cetera.
• Minimum of two (2) years of experience in software integration and software testing, to include developing and implementing test plans and test scripts
• An Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required

Additional Desired Qualifications:

Preferred, not required, to have one of the following Cloud Developer Certifications:

• AWS Certified Developer-Associate
• AWS Certified Machine Learning-Associate
• AWS Certified Machine Learning-Specialty
• AWS DevOps Engineer Professional
• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

• Demonstrated experience with OpenSource (NoSQL) products that support highly distributed, massively parallel computation needs such as Hbase, Accumulo, and/or Big Table
• Demonstrated experience with Map/Reduce and/or Hadoop, Hive, and/or Pig
• Demonstrated experience with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
• Demonstrated experience with Big-Data Cloud Scalability (e.g. Amazon, Google, and/or Facebook)
• Demonstrated experience designing and developing web applications with JavaScript
• Demonstrated experience designing and developing automated analytic software, techniques, and algorithms
• Demonstrated experience with compute cluster monitoring tools (e.g. Hobbit, Ganglia)
• Demonstrated experience with Accumulo internals, to include configuring, tuning, and testing Accumulo in many configurations (>200 node clusters)
• Competencies and Skills:
• Experience with Large Language Models (LLM), Agentic AI, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
• Expertise in AWS Cloud Architecture design and development
• Proficiency in using AWS SDKs and APIs
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like CloudFormation or Terraform
• Skilled in Continuous Integration, Deployment, Testing and Monitoring practices
• Knowledge and skill in implementing and using observability tools (e.g. Elasticsearch, OpenSearch)
• Java programming for distributed systems, with experience in networking and multi-threading
• Agile development experience with source code management practices and tools
• Well-grounded in Linux fundamentals and knowledge in at least one scripting language (e.g. Python, Ruby, Perl, etc.)
• Familiarity with microservices software development techniques and container-orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes)
• Knowledge of security and compliance best practices

Benefits:

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on our critical programs, 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 eligibility to participate in an attractive bonus plan.

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 Level1 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.

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