DevSecOps / Platform 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 a DevSecOps Engineer to join our team, responsible for owning delivery pipelines, automation, and environments that carry federal systems into production. This is a remote position with a hybrid arrangement preferred, involving travel to the Washington, DC metropolitan area one to two days a week.

🏢 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.

🎯 The Role

Your first project will likely have you owning assigned delivery pipelines and the environments beneath them. Depending on the assignment, you may work on the integration and deployment of enterprise tools and platforms such as SageMaker, Posit Connect, or on-demand, pre-configured EC2-based Linux virtual machines. You will build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure validation, testing, deployment, and release promotion, and configure cloud networking, access permissions, storage, and compute resources following established security requirements.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Work on the integration and deployment of enterprise tools and platforms such as SageMaker, Posit Connect, or on-demand, pre-configured EC2-based Linux virtual machines.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure validation, testing, deployment, and release promotion.
• Configure cloud networking, access permissions, storage, and compute resources following established security requirements.
• Build and maintain Linux machine images, including software installation, configuration, patching, and validation.
• Support analytics and development environments, including user onboarding, access configuration, and software dependencies.
• Troubleshoot deployment failures, connectivity problems, permissions, Linux services, and application runtime issues using logs and diagnostic tools.
• Write and maintain scripts that simplify recurring operational tasks and improve consistency.
• Participate in code reviews, test infrastructure changes, and document implementation details, troubleshooting procedures, and operational runbooks.
• Take ownership of assigned changes from implementation through deployment verification, collaborating with senior engineers on architectural decisions and complex incidents.

📌 Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of DevSecOps or platform engineering experience
• A bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, cybersecurity, engineering, or a related technical discipline
• Hands-on experience administering Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure with a working understanding of compute, storage, networking, and identity management
• Practical experience with infrastructure as code (CloudFormation or the AWS Cloud Development Kit), CI/CD pipeline automation with security gates using GitHub Actions or comparable tools, and hands-on Docker image creation and containerization
• Linux administration and troubleshooting skills, including packages, services, permissions, and logs
• Ability to write and troubleshoot scripts in Python and Bash
• Understanding of least-privilege access, zero trust principles, secure configuration, and controlled deployment processes
• Experience with Git-based version control
• Monitoring and logging
• Proficiency in writing, PowerPoint, and Excel

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Federal security experience supporting Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) compliance, implementing National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-53 (NIST SP 800-53) controls, and providing Authority to Operate (ATO) support
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) administration, Ansible, and software packaging experience
• An Amazon Web Services certification
• Nexus, Artifactory, CloudBolt, or comparable artifact management and provisioning platforms
• OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication, deployment approval controls, and AWS environments spanning multiple accounts
• Federal information technology experience

🎁 Benefits

This is a full-time W-2 position with a salary of $120,000 to $150,000 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

The initial engagement requires United States citizenship and the ability to obtain a Public Trust determination. Occasional travel to DC is part of the job.