Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Peraton is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Herndon, VA to support a large software development classified program. The ideal candidate should have experience with agile software methodology, software engineering design best practices, and a strong background in programming languages and systems.

Responsibilities

• Designs, develops, documents, tests, and debugs applications software and systems that contain logical and mathematical solutions.
• Confers with systems analysts, engineers, programmers, and others to design system and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces.
• Designs, develops, and modifies software systems, using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcomes and consequences of design.
• Coincides with software system installations and monitors equipment functioning to ensure specifications are met.
• Develops and integrates bug fixes and new feature enhancements using DIA standard development tools and processes (e.g., Java, Git, GitLab).
• Participates in acceptance criteria development, creates scripts, utilizes Open Source and COTS tools to automate testing, documents instructions, and participates in integration activities.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an area relevant to the position with 12+ years of relevant experience OR a Master’s degree in an area relevant to the position with 10+ years of relevant experience; an additional 4 years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Active TS/SCI or SCI eligibility and active polygraph or ability to obtain a polygraph.
• Programming Language Experience including – but not limited to –Java, JavaScript, SQL and Python.
• Experience in RHEL and ORACLE environments.
• AWS technologies: PostgreSQL, Oracle.
• Experience using modern techniques such as REST, JSON, Spring, Spring Boot, JavaScript, Ember.js, Nextjs/React, GraphQL frameworks.
• Experience with Docker, KeyCloak, Wildfly, Tomcat, ArcGIS.
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment.
• Full-time work in a SCIF.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience using Git, Jenkins, GitLab.
• Experience with EC2, S3, RDS.
• Understanding of and experience with network administration and security protocols on various domains.
• Experience with Joint Intelligence Operations Command (JIOC) applications and/or intelligence data.
• Experience within the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) or other DoD security domains highly desired.