Basic Qualifications:  

• A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or in a related technical field is highly desired which will be considered equivalent to two (2) years of experience.   

• Five (5) 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 

   

• Must have, or be willing to obtain prior to start, 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)

• A minimum of five (5) years of experience in software development/engineering, including requirements analysis, software development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement, maintenance, testing, and problem  diagnosis/resolution.

• A minimum of four (4) years of experience developing software with high level languages such as Java, C, C

• Demonstrated ability to work with OpenSource (NoSQL) products that support highly distributed, massively parallel computation needs such as Hbase, Acumulo, Big Table, etc.

• Demonstrated work experience with the Map Reduce programming model and technologies such as Hadoop, Hive, Pig, etc.

• Demonstrated work experience with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)

• Demonstrated work experience with Serialization such as JSON and/or BSON

• Demonstrated work experience developing Restful services

• At least three (3) years of experience developing software for UNIX/Linux (Redhat versions 3-5) operating systems.

• Demonstrated work experience in the requirements analysis and design of at least one Object Oriented system.
• Demonstrated work experience developing solutions integrating and extending FOSS/COTS products.
• At least three (3) years of experience in software integration and software testing, to include developing and implementing test plans and test scripts.
• Demonstrated technical writing skills and shall have generated technical documents in support of a software development project. 

In addition, the candidate will have demonstrated experience, work or college level courses, in at least two (2) of the desired characteristics:  

• Experience deploying applications in a cloud environment. 
• Understanding of Big-Data Cloud Scalability (Amazon, Google, Facebook) 
• Experience designing and developing automated analytic software, techniques, and algorithms. 
• Experience with taxonomy construction for analytic disciplines, knowledge areas and skills. 
• Experience developing and deploying: data driven analytics; event driven analytics; sets of analytics orchestrated through rules engines. 
• Experience with linguistics (grammar, morphology, concepts). 
• Experience developing and deploying analytics that discover and exploit social networks. 
• Experience documenting ontologies, data models, schemas, formats, data element dictionaries, software application program interfaces and other technical specifications. 
• Experience developing and deploying analytics within a heterogeneous schema environment. 

An Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required 

Desired Qualifications: 

• 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 supporting 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, and eligibility to participate in an attractive bonus plan.

Investing in Your Growth: Selected candidates may be eligible for enhanced professional development opportunities, including training, certification programs, and skill-building experiences tailored to individual strengths, career goals, and role-specific requirements.