Cloud Software Engineer II: Data-Intensive, AWS & Big Data

Peraton; Laurel (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton in Laurel, MD seeks a software engineer with 5+ years of experience in development and system integration for cloud-based analytics. Candidates should have hands-on work with Java/C/C++, Unix/Linux, and OpenSource NoSQL ecosystems, plus expertise in Hadoop/HDFS, JSON/BSON, and RESTful services.

Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required. Desired skills include LLM, RAG, AWS cloud architecture and automation, and data-analytic capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field highly desired or equivalent to 2 years of experience
• 5+ years directly related software development/engineering experience
• Must have or be willing to obtain one of the following Cloud Developer Certifications (AWS/CDK): AWS Certified Developer-Associate, AWS Certified Machine Learning-Associate, AWS Certified Machine Learning-Specialty, AWS DevOps Engineer Professional, CKAD
• Minimum 5 years in software development/engineering incl. requirements analysis, software development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement, maintenance, testing, and problem diagnosis/resolution
• Minimum 4 years developing software with high-level languages such as Java, C, C++
• Experience with OpenSource NoSQL products (HBase, Accumulo, BigTable)
• Experience with MapReduce and related technologies (Hadoop, Hive, Pig)
• Experience with Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
• Experience with JSON and BSON serialization
• Experience developing Restful services
• At least 3 years developing software for UNIX/Linux (RedHat 3-5)
• Experience in requirements analysis and OO design
• Experience integrating and extending FOSS/COTS products
• At least 3 years of software integration and testing with test plans/scripts
• Technical writing skills with documentation for software development projects
• Two of the following desired characteristics: cloud deployment, big-data cloud scalability, automated analytics, ontology/data models, linguistics, social network analytics, data-driven analytics and rule-based analytics
• Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph

Responsibilities

• Perform software development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement and maintenance
• Analyze requirements and diagnose and resolve software problems
• Develop and test RESTful services
• Work with UNIX/Linux (Red Hat) environments and OO design
• Collaborate on integrating and extending FOSS/COTS products

Skills

Java

C

C++

UNIX/Linux

Hadoop

Hive

Pig

HDFS

JSON

BSON

RESTful services

NoSQL

OpenSource

Cloud deployment

Big Data scalability

LLM

RAG

Ontology / Ontologies

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

CKAD

AWS Certified Developer-Associate

AWS Certified Machine Learning-Associate

AWS Certified Machine Learning-Specialty

AWS DevOps Engineer Professional

Job description

Peraton in Laurel, MD seeks a software engineer with 5+ years of experience in development and system integration for cloud-based analytics. Candidates should have hands-on work with Java/C/C++, Unix/Linux, and OpenSource NoSQL ecosystems, plus expertise in Hadoop/HDFS, JSON/BSON, and RESTful services.

Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required. Desired skills include LLM, RAG, AWS cloud architecture and automation, and data-analytic capabilities.