Peraton is seeking a Software Engineer to remediate vulnerabilities in microservices and containers with strong AWS and DevSecOps experience to support the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Datacenter Consolidation and Cloud Optimization (DCCO) program and the Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) biometric system.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience with Linux operating systems
- Experience in remediating vulnerabilities within containerized platforms
- Proficiency with security vulnerability identification and scoring tools, including CVE analysis
- Practical experience with container platforms and tools such as OpenShift, Ansible Automation Platform, Docker, and Jenkins
- Knowledge of CI/CD practices, GitLab runners, and interpreting security scanning results from tools such as Twistlock
- AWS experience and/or relevant AWS certifications
- Experience with Splunk and log analysis for identifying system or test anomalies
Responsibilities
- Remediate vulnerabilities detected by security scans in application code, container images, and host environments.
- Patch, rebuild, and deploy vulnerable container images and validate resolution using Twistlock scan reports.
- Remediate security vulnerabilities by deploying Operating System patches/upgrades, performing Java and Go library upgrades, Upgrade/Rebuild/Deploy OpenShift Containers, and other remediation tasks.
- Update Java and Golang code when necessary to remediate security findings.
- Coordinate directly with development, infrastructure, and DevSecOps teams to apply fixes and configuration changes.
- Unit / Integration test to ensure functionality is not impacted by security fixes.
- Document and track remediation progress using tools such as Jira and Confluence.
Other
- High School diploma and 6 years of IT experience
- U.S. Citizenship and the ability to obtain/maintain DHS EOD clearance (required prior to start)
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (preferred)
- Participate in periodic on-call rotations (4–6 times/year) to support production issue triage and verification
- Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law
