Databricks Platform and DevSecOps Engineer

📋 Job Overview

Peregrine Advisors is a rapidly growing AI and data innovation hub helping government solve hard problems and deliver better outcomes. We are seeking an Azure Databricks Platform Engineer to join our team. This is a remote position requiring United States citizenship.

🏢 About Peregrine

Peregrine Advisors is a rapidly growing AI and data innovation hub helping government solve hard problems and deliver better outcomes. We work across the full lifecycle—from strategy and governance through architecture, engineering, analytics, AI, visualization, and training—for clients including the SEC, PCAOB, DDOT, and DCAA.

Our clients describe our support as “absolutely excellent” and our people as “instrumental to organization’s success.” Winner of the United Nations COP27 Datathon, our work has earned all Exceptional CPARS ratings, SEC Chair’s Awards, the SEC Vision Award, and recognition from FDA leadership.

We are also built differently. Peregrine is the first and only social enterprise organized as a Benefit Corporation and SBA 8(a) company focused on AI and data for government. We believe business success should create client value, social value, and opportunity for our people.

As we enter our next stage of growth, we need dependable, motivated, and skilled people who have a combination of intellectual curiosity and intellectual courage. With new clients, larger programs, and expanding responsibilities, the people joining Peregrine now will have the opportunity to help shape the company we become.

People first. Ownership always.

We solve problems through people, process, and technology—in that order. Technology matters, but people make transformation happen. That principle defines our culture. Trust and motivation are the foundational pillars of delivery on which our skills stand. We hire people we can trust, who care deeply about what they do, take ownership, learn quickly, help one another, and refuse to walk past a problem because it belongs to someone else.

At Peregrine, you are not joining simply to fill a position. You are joining a team, taking ownership of a mission, and helping build a company. If that excites you, we should talk.

At Peregrine Advisors, you will own the environments, the deployment path, and the platform operations beneath production data products for a federal agency. But we hire people, not seats. As the work evolves, you will learn new systems and tools, take on greater responsibility, and help develop the firm's capabilities, tools, and lines of business. We move our best to where the hardest problems are.

🎯 The Role

Your first project will likely have you building the environments and the deployment automation the rest of the team builds on, and supporting them through cutover. Depending on the assignment, you may:

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Stand up and maintain the Azure Databricks environments, including the access, secrets, and networking they depend on.
• Build the deployment automation that promotes work between environments, using Declarative Automation Bundles (formerly Databricks Asset Bundles), infrastructure as code, and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI and CD) pipelines.
• Tune Delta pipelines and platform performance.
• Run platform operations, and write the runbooks that let someone else operate what you built.
• Support environment parity, migration, and cutover alongside the Databricks team, under Peregrine change control, including bindings, rollback, and the evidence a release review needs.

📌 Required Qualifications

• 4+ years of platform engineering, DevSecOps, or cloud infrastructure experience
• Bachelor's degree
• Hands-on Azure Databricks platform work, including Unity Catalog and Delta pipeline performance
• Deployment automation and environment promotion, including infrastructure as code and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI and CD) pipelines
• Cloud networking, secrets management, and least-privilege access design in a governed environment
• Platform operations for a production data platform
• Migration and cutover support, including environment parity, rollback planning, and the evidence a release review asks for
• Scripting in Python and Git-based version control; Bash is a plus
• Platform or DevSecOps work in at least one cloud environment other than Databricks, for example Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Google Cloud
• Delivery experience in a federal government environment, working to its security, access, and review processes
• Proficiency in writing, PowerPoint, and Excel
• United States citizenship; dual citizenship and green card holders are prohibited by the contract terms
• The ability to satisfy the required suitability, security, and access requirements

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience on a federal system accredited at Impact Level 5 (IL-5) or higher
• Declarative Automation Bundles (formerly Databricks Asset Bundles), Terraform, or Azure DevOps pipelines
• Databricks certification, or an Azure or Amazon Web Services cloud certification
• Federal security experience supporting compliance frameworks, security controls, and authorization evidence
• Familiarity with artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted developer tooling

🎁 Benefits

This is a full-time W-2 position with a salary of $120,000 to $140,000 per year.

Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance with the employee premium fully paid and half of dependent premiums; employer-paid life, accidental death, and short-term and long-term disability insurance; a 401(k) with an employer match of up to 4% of salary; unlimited paid time off; and sponsored professional certifications and continuing education.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

This is a remote position. The initial engagement requires United States citizenship; dual citizenship and green card holders are prohibited by the contract terms. It also requires the ability to satisfy the required suitability, security, and access requirements.