Senior Software Engineer (Clojure)

Peraton Labs delivers innovative solutions and revolutionary new capabilities to solve the most difficult and complex challenges for government agencies, utilities, and commercial customers. With a distinguished heritage tracing back to Bell Labs, Bellcore, and Telcordia, our experts pave the way.

Peraton Labs is seeking a cleared ICAM Software Engineer in Aberdeen Proving Ground for our US Army customer.

What You’ll Get to Do:

• The work is focused on researching and testing possible ICAM solutions for the US Army tactical network.

• The Engineer will work closely with government team lead, the technical team lead and other team members to perform hands on research to identify possible solutions for the ICAM gaps as identified by the team’s various customers.

• The Engineer will also provide input and feedback on policies and procedures pertaining to ICAM within the US Army as well as participate in DoD level ICAM meetings.

• The Engineer will also provide oversight at the Army’s PKI testing events as mandated by the DoD PKI PMO.

You’ll Bring These Qualifications:

• 8 years experience with BS/BA, 6 years with MS/MA, 3 years with PhD
• Signigicant relevant experience will be considered in lieu of formal education

• Active DoD Secret Clearance

• US Citizenship

• Proficiency with the Clojure 1.11 programming language

• Intermediate or Senior Clojure developer with 2+ years of experience  

• Experience using the Clojure CLI command line tool

• Frontend experience with Clojure script, React or equivalent rendering library

• Knowledge of TLS certificate client authentication

• Knowledge of designing and implementing REST APIs with the reitit library

• Experience with the next.jdbc library is helpful

• Backend experience with ring, or other functional programming backends

• Understanding of Java programming language is helpful

• Experience in implementation of Identity and Access Management (IAM) frameworks: business processes, policies and technologies that facilitate the management of electronic or digital identities

• Expertise in systems used for IAM including single sign-on systems, Two-factor authentication, multifactor authentication, and privileged access management and Identity Lifecycle Management (provisioning and deprovisioning)

• Good understanding of REST API concepts

• Strong knowledge of SQL for database manipulation and querying

• Experience with relational databases

• Experience with PostgreSQL database is helpful

• Proficient with the Docker ecosystem and commands

• Proficient with Git

These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have:

• Experience working with Certificate Authorities

• DoD Registration Authority experience

• Understanding of the part ICAM plays in Zero Trust Architecture

• Software development and scripting experience

• Experience with virtual machines

• Experience with Linux

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