Systems Engineering

About Peraton

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 peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Program Overview

Provides IC data management support to modernize mega data repositories, dataflow management, data provenance and compliance validation, and streaming solutions.

About The Role

The Corp-DDS team is looking for a mid-level to Senior Data Flow Engineer to join our team who would be responsible for the following:

• Design, implement, and troubleshoot complex, large-scale data flows to ensure seamless operations.
• Evaluate and optimize existing data flows to enhance performance and maintain compliance with industry standards.
• Provide strategic recommendations on future hardware and software needs to support expanding system performance requirements.
• Deliver technical support in a Linux environment, including software installations, troubleshooting, and network-related problem resolution.
• Manage and support Virtual Systems and NiagaraFiles (NiFi) applications to maintain efficient dataflow operations.
• Analyze and resolve data formatting or software issues affecting data flows by collaborating with Engineers and Developers.
• Participate in on-call support rotations (approximately every 6-8 weeks) with occasional on-site visits to address emergency system issues.

This position does require 1 week of "on-call" support with the occasional requirement to report on-site to handle emergency issues with systems supporting dataflow. Typically team rotation is about once every 6 to 8 weeks.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Fourteen (14) years experience as a SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required. Bachelor's degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Five (5) years of additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.
• 6+ years of data flow experience
• Minimum working 10 year's working within the Intelligence Community working with mission systems and mission data formats
• Experience configuring and managing Linux Operating Systems
• Knowledge and experience with Networking protocols such as HTTPS, SFTP, etc.
• Experience providing customer support to assist users and customers with data flow questions and concerns.
• Experience in creating, documenting and implementing data flow requirements
• Experience in developing system performance, availability, scalability, manageability, and security requirements for mid-to-large scale systems.
• Experience in developing technical documentation for issues and/or training.
• Experience in leading agile and/or spiral development models.
• Experience developing solutions integrating and extending COTS products.
• Experience integrating COTS and GOTS products from multiple vendors.
• Knowledge and experience with developing distributed storage routing and querying algorithms.
• Experience implementing storage area networks, data warehouses and data marts.
• Experience optimizing storage, retrieval, back-up, and retention strategies across globally distributed, high throughput, text and multimedia storage and retrieval systems.
• Experience developing and deploying storage within clustered or cloud environments.
• Experience interacting in a cross-Integrated Product Team (IPT) environment.
• Experience planning and integrating secure compliant solutions based on legal, policy, and compliance directives.
• Knowledge and experience with internals of HDFS, HADOOP, and/or HBase/Accumulo BIG TABLE.
• Active TS/SCI security clearance with a current polygraph is required

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on our critical National Security programs, 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 participate in an attractive bonus plan.

SCA / Union / Intern Rate or Range

Details

Target Salary Range: $176,000 - $282,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

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