Junior DevSecOps Engineer

📋 Job Overview

Help run the secure cloud infrastructure, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, and automation behind federal systems. This is a hybrid work arrangement based in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, and the commuting cadence varies by assignment. The initial engagement requires United States citizenship and the ability to obtain a Public Trust determination.

🏢 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.

🎯 The Role

Your first project will likely have you working alongside engineers on the pipelines a team relies on every day. Depending on the assignment, you may:

• Build and maintain pipelines and deployment automation, with senior engineers guiding you.
• Help write infrastructure as code in Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Add security scanning, vulnerability checks, and policy controls to the delivery pipeline.
• Help run Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments and Docker containers, including orchestration, monitoring, and logging.
• Help map and implement National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-53 (NIST SP 800-53) controls, and automate the compliance evidence.
• Script repeatable operational tasks in Python, with Bash or PowerShell where they fit, and fix the findings that come back.
• Use artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted tools for scripting, testing, and pipeline work, and check everything they produce.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain pipelines and deployment automation
• Help write infrastructure as code in Terraform or CloudFormation
• Add security scanning, vulnerability checks, and policy controls to the delivery pipeline
• Help run AWS environments and Docker containers
• Help map and implement NIST SP 800-53 controls
• Script repeatable operational tasks in Python
• Use AI-assisted tools for scripting, testing, and pipeline work

📌 Required Qualifications

• 1+ years of experience in software development, platform engineering, or operations engineering
• A bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, cybersecurity, engineering, or a related technical discipline
• Scripting in Python; Bash or PowerShell is a plus
• Working knowledge of CI/CD concepts and hands-on experience with at least one pipeline tool
• Familiarity with AWS cloud services, and with Docker and containerization
• A basic grasp of container orchestration concepts
• Exposure to infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
• Foundational Linux experience
• Knowledge of networking concepts, application programming interfaces, load balancing, and web applications
• An understanding of cloud security principles and secure software delivery practices
• The ability to troubleshoot issues in infrastructure and deployments
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot for code generation and review
• Proficiency in writing, PowerPoint, and Excel

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Exposure to NIST SP 800-53 controls, Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) compliance, or Authority to Operate (ATO) processes
• Experience with vulnerability scanning or security tooling, such as static application security testing (SAST), dynamic application security testing (DAST), or policy-as-code
• Hands-on delivery of production workloads on AWS, or an AWS certification
• Experience in federal information technology

🎁 Benefits

This is a full-time W-2 position with a salary of $80,000 to $95,000 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.