Cyber Software Engineer, Senior Advisor (occasional telework)

About the position

As a Cyber Software Engineer at Peraton, you will be responsible for implementing advanced software security techniques, conducting security testing, and providing engineering designs to mitigate vulnerabilities. This role involves troubleshooting, code review, and consulting on secure coding practices, contributing to the architecture, and maintaining technical documentation.

Responsibilities

• Implement, test, and operate advanced software security techniques in compliance with technical reference architecture.
• Perform ongoing 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 maintain technical documentation.
• Consult team members on secure coding practices.
• Develop familiarity with new tools and best practices.

Requirements

• Twenty (20) years' experience as a Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.
• A minimum of six (6) years demonstrated experience out of the most recent 8 years developing production systems.
• Demonstrated work experience developing RESTful Services.
• Familiarity with cloud development techniques, resources, and tools.
• Active TS/SCI security clearance with current polygraph.

Nice-to-haves

• 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 CI/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).

Benefits

• Heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents.
• 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap.
• Participation in an attractive bonus plan.