AI Platform Engineer: Agentic Automation & Secure Workflows

Peraton; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 112,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking an AI/ML Platform & Agentic Automation Engineer to design, develop, integrate, and maintain shared AI capabilities across enterprise platforms. This role emphasizes integrating approved foundation models and managed AI services through reusable APIs, agentic workflows, and developer-facing tools rather than building models from scratch.

The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering and cloud expertise with experience integrating AI services into secure, auditable

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with CI Polygraph.
• BS/BA plus 5 years experience; 4 years can substitute for degree.
• 5–8 years in software/platform/cloud engineering or related field.
• Experience integrating apps with foundation models or managed AI services via APIs.
• Strong Python or similar programming skills.
• Experience with workflows that integrate external tools or APIs.
• Experience with AWS services and cloud-native patterns.
• Familiarity with Git, CI/CD, containers, and modern delivery practices.
• Understanding of authentication, authorization, and secrets management.
• Proven troubleshooting across distributed apps and automation.
• Ability to collaborate across software, platform, security, and operations teams.

Responsibilities

• Integrate approved foundation models and managed AI services via APIs.
• Develop reusable APIs, wrappers, and integration patterns for model access.
• Design agentic workflows automating platform engineering and operations.
• Ensure security, auditability, and proper tool permissions.
• Develop automation components for provisioning, access, and deployments.
• Build AI-powered developer assistants and low-code capabilities.

Skills

Python

APIs

Cloud

CI/CD

Git

Distributed systems

Collaboration

Security

Observability

Education

BS/BA with 5 years experience (or 9 years if no degree)

4 extra years of experience in lieu of degree

Tools

AWS Bedrock

GitLab

ServiceNow

Terraform

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Peraton is seeking an AI/ML Platform & Agentic Automation Engineer to design, develop, integrate, and maintain shared AI capabilities across enterprise platforms. This role emphasizes integrating approved foundation models and managed AI services through reusable APIs, agentic workflows, and developer-facing tools rather than building models from scratch.

The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering and cloud expertise with experience integrating AI services into secure, auditable