3 days ago
Base Salary
$135k - $216k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, modernization, and integration of enterprise applications supporting mission-critical federal operations.
- Refactor legacy and COTS applications into modular, microservices-based architectures using open-source technologies.
- Design and develop APIs, event-driven services, messaging systems, data ingestion workflows, ETL pipelines, transformations, analytics, and dissemination capabilities.
- Develop secure, scalable, resilient, and highly available applications for high-volume and near-real-time processing.
- Support AI/ML-enabled application workflows, including model integration and deployment.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, deployment, security validation, and compliance validation.
- Implement DevSecOps practices, secure SDLC processes, automated scanning, and federal security controls.
- Support system-of-systems integration across applications, contractors, and technical teams.
- Troubleshoot complex issues across application, infrastructure, integration, and data layers.
- Lead code reviews, mentor developers, and enforce engineering standards and best practices.
- Collaborate in Agile/Scrum and SAFe delivery environments.
Requirements
- A bachelor's degree with 12 years of experience, an associate's degree with 14 years of experience, or a high school diploma/equivalent with 16 years of experience.
- At least 12 years of experience in software development, application engineering, or enterprise application modernization.
- U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain a Public Trust.
- Experience leading application development teams on large-scale federal IT modernization or transformation initiatives.
- Experience designing, developing, and modernizing enterprise-grade cloud-native applications and converting legacy or COTS systems to open-source, microservices-based architectures.
- Experience with APIs, distributed integrations, event-driven architectures, messaging systems, DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines, containerization, orchestration, data integration, ETL, infrastructure automation, and Infrastructure as Code.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
- Working knowledge of NIST, FedRAMP, FISMA, Zero Trust, MFA, and Authority to Operate processes.
- Experience supporting highly available, scalable, resilient applications and performance optimization.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum and SAFe environments.
- Preferred qualifications include federal statistical or Census modernization experience, cloud certifications, AI/ML enterprise application integration, Apache Kafka or other event-streaming experience, and complex system-of-systems integration experience.
Benefits
- Eligible employees may receive medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short- and long-term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off, and company-paid holidays; the position is hybrid in Suitland, Maryland.
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About Peraton
Peraton builds and integrates mission systems, cyber, space, and intelligence solutions for U.S. defense, intelligence, and civil agencies. It delivers enterprise IT, satellite and terrestrial communications, and spectrum management under government contracts. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Reston, Virginia and is privately held by Veritas Capital.