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Do you thrive in fast-paced, mission-driven environments? Peraton is seeking a talented and skilled Cloud Software Engineer to join our Cyber Intelligence team in Laurel, MD.\nAs part of a collaborative, high-impact integrated product development team, you’ll work on next-generation cyber and AI/ML capabilities hosted on large-scale compute clusters and AWS Cloud infrastructure. This is your chance to help shape innovative services that make a real difference. Interested in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning? If so, this is the position for you.\nThe Cloud Software Engineer Level 2 Engineer provides cloud software research, development, and engineering services to include requirements analysis, software development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement, sustainment, testing, validation, and issue diagnosis/resolution.\nKey Technologies and Skills:\n-Cloud Expertise: Deep experience in AWS Cloud Architecture, SDKs, APIs, and cloud services integration -AI/ML Integration: Familiarity with Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) frameworks -IaC & DevOps: Hands-on with CloudFormation or Terraform, and modern CI/CD pipelines -Programming Proficiency: Strong in Java for distributed systems with a solid grasp of networking, multi-threading, and concurrency -Containers & Orchestration: Knowledge of Kubernetes and microservices architecture -Security-Minded: Working knowledge of cloud security principles and compliance best practices -Scripting & Systems: Competent in Linux environments with scripting skills in Python, Ruby, Perl, or similar\nQualifications\nA 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. A Master's degree in a Technical Field will be considered equivalent to four (4) years of experience. NOTE: A degree in Mathematics, Information Systems, Engineering, or similar degree will be considered as a technical field.\nMinimum eight (8) years of experience in software development/engineering, including requirements analysis, software development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement, maintenance, testing, and problem diagnosis/resolution.\nEight (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.\nMinimum six (6) years of experience developing software with high level languages such as Java, C, C++\nDemonstrated ability to work with OpenSource (NoSQL) products that support highly distributed, massively parallel computation needs such as Hbase, Acumulo, Big Table, etc.\nDemonstrated work experience with the Map Reduce programming model and technologies such as Hadoop, Hive, Pig, etc.\nDemonstrated work experience with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).\nDemonstrated work experience with serialization such as JSON and/or BSON.\nDemonstrated work experience developing Restful services.\nAt least five (5) years of experience developing software for UNIX/Linux (Redhat versions 3-5) operating systems.\nDemonstrated work experience in the requirements analysis and design of at least one Object Oriented system.\nDemonstrated work experience developing solutions integrating and extending FOSS/COTS products.\nAt least three (3) years of experience in software integration and software testing, to include developing and implementing test plans and test scripts.\nDemonstrated technical writing skills and shall have generated technical documents in support of a software development project.\nExperience deploying applications in a cloud environment.\nExperience developing and deploying: data driven analytics; event driven analytics; sets of analytics orchestrated through rules engines.\nAn Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required.\nIn addition, the candidate will have demonstrated work experience in at least four (4) of the desired characteristics:\nUnderstanding of Big-Data Cloud Scalability (Amazon, Google, Facebook)\nExperience designing and developing automated analytic software, techniques, and algorithms.\nExperience developing and deploying: analytics that include foreign language processing; analytic processes that incorporate/integrate multi-media technologies, including speech, text, image and video exploitation; analytics that function on massive data sets, for example, more than a billion rows or larger than 10 Petabytes; analytics that employ semantic relationships (i.e., inference engines) between structured and unstructured data sets; analytics that identify latent patterns between elements of massive data sets, for example more than a billion rows or larger than 10 Petabytes; analytics that employ techniques commonly associated with Artificial Intelligence, for example genetic algorithms.\nExperience with taxonomy construction for analytic disciplines, knowledge areas and skills.\nExperience with linguistics (grammar, morphology, concepts).\nExperience developing and deploying analytics that discover and exploit social networks.\nExperience documenting ontologies, data models, schemas, formats, data element dictionaries, software application program interfaces and other technical specifications.\nExperience developing and deploying analytics within a heterogeneous schema environment.\nMust have, or be willing to obtain prior to start, one of the following Cloud Developer Certifications:\nAWS Certified Developer-Associate\nAWS Certified Machine Learning-Associate\nAWS Certified Machine Learning-Specialty\nAWS DevOps Engineer Professional\nCertified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)\n\nAdditional Desired Qualifications:\nExperience with Large Language Models (LLM), Agentic AI, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)\nExpertise in AWS Cloud Architecture design and development\nProficiency in using AWS SDKs and APIs\nExpertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like CloudFormation or Terraform\nSkilled in Continuous Integration, Deployment, Testing and Monitoring practices\nKnowledge and skill in implementing and using observability tools (e.g. Elasticsearch, OpenSearch)\nJava programming for distributed systems, with experience in networking and multi-threading\nAgile development experience with source code management practices and tools\nWell-grounded in Linux fundamentals and knowledge in at least one scripting language (e.g. Python, Ruby, Perl, etc.)\nFamiliarity with microservices software development techniques and container-orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes)\nKnowledge of security and compliance best practices\nBenefits: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.\nInvesting 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.\nPeraton Overview\nPeraton 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.\nTarget Salary Range\n$146,000 - $234,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.EEO\nEEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.","description_format":"text","description_chars":8852,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":true},"security_clearance":true,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Professional development"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Artificial Intelligence","National Security","Homeland Security"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-26T04:10:23Z"}],"liveness":{"score":80,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.888,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":2,"expected_fill_days":3,"reasons":["conf:40","wave","velocity","win:mid","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-28T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":234000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/peraton-cloud-software-engineer-level-2-aiml-tssci-wpoly-5","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/peraton-cloud-software-engineer-level-2-aiml-tssci-wpoly-5.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-29T02:47:57Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":2494,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":2506,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-30T00:00:00Z"}}}