Processing and Analytic Capabilities Software Engineering Advisor

Peraton is hiring an experienced Software Engineer (SWE) to support the government’s Processing and Analytic Capabilities Office initiatives related to their High Performance Computing (HPC) program. These programs are cutting edge and include everything from HPC test planning and execution, architecture design and prototyping, and vendor outreach and collaboration support.

The SWE will support work across teams to write or enable queries for specialized metrics collection products and ensure that system performance is maintained. As a result, the candidate must have leadership skills and/or experience with leading an effort, and be communicative, collaborative, and organized. The ideal candidate should be able to work independently, as well as with a team, to ensure that all components are functioning properly;

must be willing to stay abreast of the latest industry trends in both open source and commercial metrics and monitoring solutions; be capable of supporting determination of if-and-when to incorporate them into an IaC solution; and be willing to and able to learn new tools and protocols.

Required Qualifications:

• Position requires an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
• Required Education / Experience requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline from an accredited college or university plus ten (10) years of software engineering experience, OR
• High School Diploma or GED plus fourteen (14) years of software engineering experience.
• To be selected, the SWE must have the following experience and skills:
• Software architecture and design planning
• Dev Ops or sustainment/life-cycle management of system-operational software or services
• Telemetry data
• Implementing and documenting dataflow or system-telemetry pipeline
• Data movement and volume estimations
• Linux, Linux tools, Bash scripting
• Programming in Python
• Familiar with and able to perform full software-development lifecycle support with version-control tools (Git, Git Lab)

Desired

Qualifications:

• The following skills/experience, while not required, are strongly preferred and will increase a candidate's odds of selection:
• Splunk, Elastic, syslog-ng, ryslog, Kafka, Logstash, and/or Ansible
• Message brokers and data movement tools
• Data analysis

Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, which includes 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.

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  to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

$112,000 - $179,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

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