Cloud Software Engineer, Senior Advisor - TS/SCI w/poly at Peraton
Laurel, MD
$176,000–$282,000from the description
Jul 1, 2026
Laurel, MD
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role focused on building and maintaining cloud-based applications for large-scale distributed mission systems at a government customer site near Fort Meade, MD. Day-to-day work spans Java development, microservices, container orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, and IaC tooling in Linux environments, with additional responsibilities for mentoring junior engineers and rotating on-call support. Suits an experienced engineer holding an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
Senior level · 20+ years · Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $141,954 (middle half $107,994–$205,328). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The experience requirement is stated as '20 years of software engineering experience OR four (4) additional years of relevant software engineering experience in lieu of a degree' — the 20-year figure is used as the overall years minimum since it is the primary stated threshold; the degree requirement is set to None because equivalent experience is explicitly accepted in lieu of a Bachelor's.
Annapolis Junction and Fort Meade are both within the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD CBSA (12580).
The scripting language requirement lists Python, Bash, Ruby, and Perl as interchangeable options; Python is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives. Bash also appears separately under Preferred Qualifications alongside Python, so it is additionally listed as a preferred skill in its own right.
The IaC requirement names Ansible and Puppet as interchangeable ('such as Ansible or Puppet'); Ansible is used as the primary name with Puppet as an alternative.
AWS is listed under Preferred Qualifications ('AWS cloud or hybrid cloud experience') and is therefore not a hard gate.
The role is on-site at the customer site (Annapolis Junction / Fort Meade); the posting explicitly states routine telework is not supported, so remote is false.
An active TS/SCI with a current Polygraph is an explicit hard gate for this role.
Requires a TS/SCI clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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