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Mission Planning Software Cloud Engineering

Peraton


Job Location:

Chantilly, VA - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 135000 - 216000
Posted: 7 November 2026 (3 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 4 February 2027
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Peraton Overview

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.

Responsibilities

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Engineering to support enterprise software development initiatives within a collaborative high-performing engineering team. This role involves designing developing integrating and maintaining software modules using modern development practices ensuring solutions meet organizational standards for quality performance and maintainability.

What youll do:

  • Develop Java-based software modules applying modern programming techniques such as event-driven or state-driven design error logging and exception handling.
  • Perform software analysis architecture engineering and integration activities across unit module and system levels.
  • Support all phases of the software engineering lifecycle including implementation testing and documentation.
  • Follow open standards and modern software engineering best practices consistent with industry norms.
  • Prepare technical documentation such as reports and white papers summarizing engineering findings.
Qualifications

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelors degree with 8 years of relevant experience; OR Masters degree with 6 years of relevant experience. Additional four (4) years of experience in lieu of a Bachelors degree will be considered.
  • This position requires the candidatetopossessa minimum of Top-Secret clearance with the ability to obtain TS/SCI. The candidate mustmaintainthe clearance.
  • Demonstrated experience in Java 8 or later including Stream APIs Future APIs and Lambda expressions.
  • Experience building applications using Spring Framework / Spring Boot.
  • Experience with microservices architectures containerization and Kubernetes.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud services such as AWS (e.g. EC2 RDS ElastiCache).
  • Experience with relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL).
  • Experience with messaging services (e.g. Kafka ActiveMQ Camel).
  • Experience with remote debugging (JDWP).
  • Experience working in a Linux environment.
  • Experience using modern development tools such as Jira Confluence and Git.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience working in Agile or SAFe environments.
  • Background in software design principles design patterns and enterprise integration patterns.
  • Understanding of advanced Spring concepts including Auto Configuration WebFlux AOP Security and distributed configuration.
  • Experience with Java automation/synthesization libraries (e.g. Lombok MapStruct).
  • Experience with advanced microservice concepts such as clustering distributed tracing decentralized governance fault isolation and circuit breaking.
  • Background in physics mathematics or aerospace.
  • CompTIA Security CE certification or progress toward certification.

Benefits:

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and eligible to participatein an attractive bonus plan

Target Salary Range
$135000 - $216000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors including but not limited to the scope and responsibilities of the position the individuals experience education knowledge skills and competencies as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position employees may be eligible for overtime shift differential and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.
Benefits Statement

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


Required Experience:

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Peraton provides innovative solutions for the most sensitive and critical programs in government today, developed and executed by scientists, engineers, and other experts.

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