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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 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.

Responsibilities

Peraton’s Defense Intelligence Solutions (DIS) business unit has a need for an experienced Front End Software Engineer in Herndon, VA to support its SITE III DO contract charged with the orchestration, sustainment, and evolution of a portfolio of mission critical applications and services supporting a major Directorate within the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC). The SITE III DO contract is designed to establish and ensure a multi-discipline approach to requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National apparatus of Defense Intelligence, Combatant Commands, supporting Partner Nations and other Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate Human Intelligence (HUMINT) collection, correlation and dissemination. Our support team applies best practices in architecture design, data science, cloud services, DevSecOps and platform integration to develop, sustain and continually evolve the global U.S. human intelligence apparatus and supporting partners.

The Front End Software Engineer will be responsible for the following, but not limited to:

Designs, develops, documents, tests and debugs applications software and systems that contain logical and mathematical solutions.

Conducts multidisciplinary research and collaborates with equipment designers and/or hardware engineers in the planning, design, development, and utilization of electronic data processing systems for product and commercial software.

Determines computer user needs; analyzes system capabilities to resolve problems on program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques and controls; prepares operating instructions; designs and develops compilers and assemblers, utility programs, and operating systems.

Ensures software standards are met.

Analyzes user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.

Confers with systems analysts, engineers, programmers and others to design system and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces.

Designs, develops and modifies software systems, using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcomes and consequences of design.

Coordinates software system installations and monitors equipment functioning to ensure specifications are met.

Specifically seeking Front End Developers as follows:

Responsible for website design/layout, images, content, buttons, navigation and internal links.

Responsible for verifying that a website's visual front end is free of errors and looks exactly as designed.

Implementation must support multiple browser types and versions, be 508 compliant and perform for bandwidth disadvantaged users.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in an area relevant to the position with 5+ years of applicable experience OR a Master’s degree in an area relevant to the position with 3+ years of applicable experience; an additional 4 years of applicable experience maybe considered in lieu of a degree.

Active TS/SCI or SCI eligibility and active polygraph or ability to obtain a polygraph

Experience with Javascript, Jquery, Angular, Bootstrap or some other UI framework

Experience with Spring Boot, Java

Building prototypes in HTML or PowerPoint

Strong troubleshooting skills

Ability to work in a fast-paced, Agile environment

Fulltime work in a SCIF is required, but hours are flexible

Desired Qualifications

OpenShift, Keycloak, Wildfly

Material-UI

Jenkins, Git, Artifactory, CI/CD pipelines

Automated testing (JMeter, Selenium, Robot Framework)

Security+ or other IAT II/III level certification that is currently active

AWS experience

STIG hardening

Active TS/SCI w/poly

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 participation in an attractive bonus plan.

Target Salary Range $104,000 - $166,000. 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 individual’s 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 https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.

Application Statements The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in the role and the Company. During the review of your application, you may be required to participate in an on-camera interview, as well as participate in a process to verify your identity. Use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools of any kind during Peraton interviews is strictly prohibited unless the candidate has obtained prior written authorization. All interview responses must be the candidate’s own.

EEO EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.