Cyber Software Engineer, Senior Advisor (occasional telework)

As our Cyber Software Engineer you will have the opportunuty to:

• Implement, test, and operate advanced software security techniques in compliance with technical reference architecture.
• Perform on-going security testing and code review to improve software security.
• Troubleshoot and debug issues that arise.
• Provide engineering designs for new software solutions to help mitigate security vulnerabilities.
• Contribute to all levels of the architecture and maintains technical documentation.
• Consult team members on secure coding practices.
• Develop a familiarity with new tools and best practices.

Basic Qualifications:

• Twenty (20) years’ experience as a SWE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
  • Four (4) years of additional SWE experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree-Recommend new technologies and processes for complex software projects
• A minimum six (6) years demonstrated experience out of the most recent 8 years developing production systems
• Demonstrated work experience developing RESTful Service-Familiarity with cloud development techniques, resources, and tools
• Active TS/SCI security clearance with current polygraph 

Core Competencies and Skills:

• Experience in agile software development/engineering, including requirements analysis, software development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement, maintenance, testing, problem diagnosis/resolution, and source code management practices & tools.
• Experience developing software with high level languages such as Java, C, C++ for distributed systems, with proficiency in networking, multi-threading and implementation of REST APIs
• Experience with the Spring framework, messaging frameworks (Kafka, RabbitMQ), streaming analytics (Apache Flink, Spark), management of containerized applications (Kubernetes).
• Experience with Enabling tools (Git, Maven, Jira), DevOps (Bamboo, Jenkins, GitLab Cl/Pipelines), Continuous Monitoring (ELK Stack (ElasticSearch, Logstash and Kibana), Nagios)
• Experience with Apache Hadoop, Apache Accumulo and Apache NiFi
• Well-grounded in Linux fundamentals and familiarity with scripting languages (e.g., Python, Ruby, Perl, BASH, etc.)
• Experience with AWS Cloud architecture, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Cloud security, and Automation (AWS Lambda, CloudFormation)

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.