Senior Cloud Software Engineer – AWS & DevOps

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

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Senior Cloud Software Engineer in Annapolis Junction, MD. The role focuses on supporting a rapidly evolving cloud-based stack, deploying updates, and maintaining system health. You will work across teams to refine architecture, implement CI/CD pipelines, and uphold security standards.

Ideal candidates have extensive AWS experience, Linux, Docker, and container orchestration skills, plus a TS/SCI clearance. Knowledge of Grafana, Nagios, and Apache Flink is a plus.

Qualifications

• Eight (8) 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
• Shall have at least 8 years of experience in software engineering, including requirements analysis, software development, installation, evaluation, enhancement, maintenance, and problem diagnosis/resolution.
• Shall have at least 4 years of experience with Java
• Shall have at least 3 years of experience in software integration and software testing, to include developing and implementing test plans and test scripts.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field; highly desired, equivalent to two years of experience.
• NOTE: A degree in Mathematics, Information Systems, Engineering, or similar degree will be considered as a technical field.
• Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph clearance is required.
• Must have one of the following Cloud Developer Certifications: AWS Developer-Associate, AWS Machine Learning-Associate, AWS Machine Learning-Specialty, AWS DevOps Engineer Professional, CKAD
• Requirements include: DevOps for AWS stack, AWS experience, Grafana, Linux, Nagios, Git, GitLab runners, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, security best practices, redundancy/reliability best practices
• Desirable: Kubernetes, Apache Flink, experience in an Agile team

Responsibilities

• Support a rapidly developing team of new features and deployments on a cloud-based architecture.
• Monitor system health, deploy updates, maintain multiple services, and ensure security requirements.
• Contribute to architecture and design reviews and assist in shaping technical approaches.
• Interface with developers across the team for pipeline updates, deployment dates and requirements.

Skills

DevOps

CI/CD

Security best practices

Agile

System reliability

AWS experience

Kubernetes

Apache Flink

Grafana

Nagios

Docker

Git

GitLab runners

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field

Tools

AWS

Grafana

Nagios

Linux

Git

GitLab runners

CI/CD pipelines

Docker

Kubernetes

Apache Flink

Job description

Peraton is seeking a Senior Cloud Software Engineer in Annapolis Junction, MD. The role focuses on supporting a rapidly evolving cloud-based stack, deploying updates, and maintaining system health. You will work across teams to refine architecture, implement CI/CD pipelines, and uphold security standards.

Ideal candidates have extensive AWS experience, Linux, Docker, and container orchestration skills, plus a TS/SCI clearance. Knowledge of Grafana, Nagios, and Apache Flink is a plus.