Software Engineer

About This Position

This position supports a high-priority, funded mission.

Peraton is seeking a Software Engineer to support a complex, mission-critical environment focused on developing and maintaining advanced software systems. This is a funded backfill opportunity supporting an established team, where you will contribute to high-impact efforts involving large-scale data processing, real-time systems, and advanced analytics.

In this role, you will support the full software development lifecycle, working independently or as part of a collaborative engineering team to design, develop, test, and enhance software solutions that directly support mission operations.

What You’ll Do

• Develop, maintain, and enhance complex software systems, including processing-intensive analytics, real-time systems, and large data set applications
• Review and test software components to ensure adherence to design requirements and document test results
• Resolve software problem reports and support system troubleshooting
• Apply appropriate software development and design methodologies based on the development environment
• Provide input to system design, including hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, and COTS/GOTS integration
• Perform requirements analysis and synthesis from system level to individual software components
• Recommend new technologies and processes to improve performance and scalability of software solutions
• Serve as technical lead across multiple software development teams
• Coordinate software development processes with customer and systems engineering teams
• Ensure quality control of all developed and modified software
• Delegate programming and testing tasks and monitor team performance

Required Qualifications

• Twenty (20) years of experience as a Software Engineer in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university
• Four (4) years of additional Software Engineering experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree
• Active TS/SCI security clearance with a current polygraph is required

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with AWS cloud environments, including serverless architecture and cloud application deployment
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), specifically Terraform
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing