Cyber Data Capabilities Developer

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 worlds 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 cant be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit to learn how were keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Peraton seeks a Cyber Data Capabilities Developer to support DCDC to develop test and maintain software capabilities for big data processing and cyberspace data analysis.Location: Fort Meade MD.

In this role develop software to turn cyberspace operations telemetry into an analytic output.

Tasks include:

• Design and deploy software applications analytic services reusable libraries and analytic pipelines for operational data.
• Refactor and optimize code such as Python SQL Scala R Julia C C Go Rust Java JavaScript/TypeScript C# Bash and PowerShell
• Develop batch and streaming data ingestion parsing normalization enrichment correlation indexing and query functions.
• Design and integrate APIs microservices data interfaces and event-driven services -- produce software designs API specifications data schemas and interface documentation.
• Use Git-based distributed version control -- maintain GitLab repositories merge requests code-review records and release artifacts
• Conduct code reviews. Produce documentation for automated tests test results code scans defect remediation and performance benchmarks.
• Profile and improve compute memory storage query and network performance for high-volume datasets; address reliability fault tolerance observability and recoverability.

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of 8 years with BS/BA; Minimum of 6 years with MS/MA; Minimum of 3 years with PhD; Will also consider Minimum of 12 years with HS diploma; Minimum of 10 years with Associates.
• Must have professional software development experience including responsibility for designing delivering and maintaining production software
• Demonstrated proficiency writing production code in at least two programming languages including Python or another language suited to data processing and demonstrated SQL proficiency. Experience with additional languages is evaluated against assigned work; proficiency in every listed language is not required.
• Demonstrated experience with Git-based distributed version control and collaborative development workflows; ability to work in GitLab or an equivalent platform.
• Experience with software architecture data structures algorithms debugging automated testing code review and secure software development.
• Experience developing or integrating software for large datasets distributed processing databases data pipelines APIs or streaming systems.
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP DNS HTTP/S network and host telemetry security events cyber threats and the operational context of defensive and offensive cyberspace missions.
• Able to meet applicable DoD 8140 work-role qualification requirements. Primary alignment is DoD Cyber Workforce Framework Software Developer (621).
• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• Active TS with ability to obtain/maintain SCI.

Desired Qualifications:

• Direct support to defensive or offensive cyberspace operations cyber mission teams detection engineering threat hunting incident response or adversary emulation.
• Hands-on development with Scala R Julia C Go Rust Java TypeScript C# or other compiled interpreted systems and analytical languages.
• Knowledge and skill in Apache Spark Kafka Flink Hadoop distributed SQL engines graph databases columnar data formats and high-volume event processing.
• Proficiency in working with cloud and container platforms; Linux; Docker; Kubernetes; infrastructure as code; GitLab CI/CD; automated deployment and DevSecOps workflows.
• Familiarity with statistical computing machine learning model integration feature engineering graph algorithms or SI-assisted development with validation and human review.
• Proficiency in data quality controls schema evolution telemetry provenance time-series analysis and performance tuning for large cyber datasets.
• Prefer experience with the JCWA Common Runtime Stack for Data (JCRS-D) Caspian or comparable DoW cyber data environments.
• Technical leadership in Agile teams and experience supporting Joint Service DoD or Cyber Mission Force organizations.

Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical dental vision life health savings account short/long term disability EAP parental leave 401(k) paid time off (PTO) for vacation and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at Statements