Required Qualifications:
- 8+ years of experience with a BS/BA; 6 years with an MS/MA; 3 years with a PhD. Without a degree, 12 years of relevant experience.
- Active TS/SCI with CI polygraph (U.S. citizenship required)
- Security+ certification, or ability to obtain within 90 days of hire
- Experience defining technical roadmaps, planning resources, and aligning engineering tasks with customer goals
- Back-end development with Java and Spring/Spring Boot
- Front-end proficiency with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and a modern framework (Angular, React, or Vue.js)
- Hands-on experience with databases such as, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or similar
- Experience with GitLab CI/CD (Pipelines, SonarQube, SAST, NexusIQ, dependency scanning)
- Experience with a cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) and containerized systems
- Experience provisioning environments and building, deploying, updating, and rolling back applications within them
Desired Qualifications:
- Java 17, JUnit 5, and Mockito
- Hands-on experience with MongoDB
- Kubernetes (RKE/RKE2), Docker, and Helm
- Messaging platforms (RabbitMQ or similar)
- PKI authentication/certificates, Keycloak, and OIDC
- Observability tools (Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, Alertmanager)
- Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence) and test automation (Cucumber, Selenium)
- Understanding of systems engineering principles and documentation
Travel:
- Up to 10% travel to attend customer-hosted quarterly PMRs.
Benefits:
Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap, ten company holidays per year, annual merit assessments, and eligible to participate in an attractive bonus plan.
- heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents
- 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap
- ten company holidays per year
- annual merit assessments
- eligible to participate in an attractive bonus plan
Peraton is seeking a Lead Full Stack Software Engineer to drive the engineering behind mission-critical intelligence software. You’ll set the technical direction for a team building cloud-based SIGINT microservices for an operational Intelligence Community mission. You’ll own the architecture and technical roadmap, mentor talented engineers, and stay hands-on with a modern stack: Java/Spring Boot, Angular, MongoDB, Docker, Kubernetes, and GitLab CI/CD.
This is an onsite role - local candidates only. Aurora, CO or Melbourne, FL
What You'll Do:
- Lead the technical vision: Architect solutions, define technical roadmaps, and align engineering work with customer goals.
- Guide the team: Plan resources, mentor engineers, and set standards for code quality, testing, and security. Provide scheduled on-call support.
- Build and deploy: Lead development, integration, testing, deployment, and maintenance of high-availability, resilient cloud-based software.
- Own the pipeline: Stand up development, test, staging, and production environments, and drive automated build, deploy, and rollback through GitLab CI/CD.
- Partner with the mission: Work with analysts, systems engineers, and developers in a fast-paced Agile environment.
- Be the customer's technical voice: Brief project managers and customers, including at quarterly Program Management Reviews (PMRs).