Cyber Data Capabilities Engineer

Peraton; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 112,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k)

Paid time off

Job summary

Peraton seeks a Cyber Data Capabilities Developer to support DCDC at Fort Meade, MD, focusing on turning cyberspace telemetry into analytic outputs. You will design and deploy software applications, pipelines, and APIs for high-volume data, using languages like Python, Java, and C++.

Strong experience with Git-based workflows and cloud/container tech is required. This role requires DoD eligibility, TS clearance, and a collaborative, security-conscious mindset in agile teams on national-security

Qualifications

• 8+ years software development with a BS/BA; 6+ with MS; other progressions listed in the ad.
• Production code in at least two languages, including Python or a data-processing language.
• Experience with Git-based workflows and GitLab or equivalent.
• Software architecture, data structures, algorithms, testing, and secure development.
• Experience with large datasets, distributed processing, data pipelines, APIs, or streaming.
• Knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S, telemetry, and cyber operation context.
• DoD 8140 work-role qualifications; DoD Cyber Workforce Framework alignment.
• U.S. Citizenship required; active TS with SCI eligibility.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy software applications, analytic services, and pipelines for operational data.
• Refactor and optimize code in Python, SQL, Scala, R, Java, C/C++, Go, and more.
• Develop batch and streaming data ingestion, normalization, enrichment, and queries.
• Design APIs, microservices, data interfaces, and provide interface documentation.
• Use Git-based version control; maintain repositories and release artifacts.
• Conduct code reviews and produce tests, results, and performance benchmarks.
• Profile and improve compute, memory, storage, query, and network performance for large datasets.

Skills

Python

SQL

Git

C/C++

Scala

Go

Java

Rust

Distributed processing

Data pipelines

Education

BS/BA in CS or related field

MS/MA

PhD

Tools

Apache Spark

Kafka

Flink

Hadoop

Kubernetes

Docker

GitLab CI/CD

CI/CD

Job description

Peraton seeks a Cyber Data Capabilities Developer to support DCDC at Fort Meade, MD, focusing on turning cyberspace telemetry into analytic outputs. You will design and deploy software applications, pipelines, and APIs for high-volume data, using languages like Python, Java, and C++.

Strong experience with Git-based workflows and cloud/container tech is required. This role requires DoD eligibility, TS clearance, and a collaborative, security-conscious mindset in agile teams on national-security