AWS Cloud Developer

Responsibilities

 

Peraton is looking to add a mid-level AWS Cloud Developer to our ongoing development, maintenance, and data engineering team. We support the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Data Engineering and Processing (DEAP) project by providing analyses, solutions and maintenance of many processes that ingest financial market data used across multiple CFTC regulatory and analytical systems, including high‑volume, mission‑critical data ingest pipelines.  These processes and the data ingested are critical to the mission of the CFTC. This position requires up to three (3) specific days onsite in the Washington DC facility and two (2) teleworking days per week.

 

 What You Will Do:

• Serve as a member of an Agile team to provide engineering support and maintenance of services and processes that migrate and promote data and algorithms to the AWS cloud environment and supporting cloud databases.
• Design, code, test and implement AWS cloud-based solutions
• Work with the customer and Peraton team on requirements gathering and task estimation.
• Perform routine data checks, code development and quality checks.
• Support database planning, design and implementation
• Support systems analysis, design and implementation
• Support code reviews and cloud deployments
• Provide regular status updates on progress both within the Agile framework and via weekly status reporting.

Qualifications

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science and 5 years of experience or a High School Diploma or equivalent and 9 years of experience
• Familiar with tools such as AWS API Gateway, Lambda, S3, Git, Jenkins, EC2, Step Function, Hive, Glue Catalog, Spectrum, Athena, S3, SNS SQS
• Experience with Python, XML
• Strong experience in analyzing and designing data migration strategies to load data from on-perm data warehouse to cloud data warehouse (Redshift and RDS).
• Experience in ETL process using AWS resources
• Industry XML data exchange message formats, required modifications, or extensions
• Experience/knowledge of XML, FIXML, or FPML is a plus
• AWS developer certified
• Must be US Citizen
• Must be able to obtain and maintain CFTC agency clearance 

 Preferred Qualifications:

• Active Public Trust or other active clearance
• Master’s degree in business, finance, computer science, statistics or related field and 2 years of experience
• Financial Industry experience is a plus
• Bachelor’s Degree is a plus
• Experience working in an Agile software development environment

 

 

 

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.

Target Salary Range

$80,000 - $128,000. 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.

EEO

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