AI Platform Full Stack & DevSecOps Engineer

Peraton; Kentucky; Hybrid; USD 66,000 - 106,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a talented Full Stack & DevSecOps Engineer to join a dynamic team building a cutting-edge Agentic AI platform in Columbus, OH. This hybrid role blends application engineering with platform operations, covering full-stack development, secure integrations, and scalable infrastructure.

You will shape the delivery pipelines, cloud operations, and production readiness while applying security best practices and collaborating across teams to deliver reliable, user-focused

Qualifications

• BA/BS with 2 years of experience; MS with 0 years.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or Computer Engineering.
• Hands-on experience building with AI agents — multi-step reasoning, tool use, RAG pipelines, or autonomous task execution.
• Strong Python skills (3.12+); async/await, type hints, modern tooling.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions and/or GitLab CI.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS) including VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, CloudTrail, and KMS.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (Amazon EKS preferred), including cluster upgrades, RBAC, Helm, and GitOps workflows.
• Experience building and maintaining Terraform/OpenTofu infrastructure-as-code.
• Strong release planning, deployment automation, validation, and rollback procedures.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting systems (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar).
• Understanding of secrets management, least privilege, supply chain security, and audit evidence.
• Experience with vulnerability remediation and compliance requirements (IAVM or similar).
• Familiarity with DAST and runtime security testing tools (OWASP ZAP, Burp, Nuclei).
• Experience with identity provider integration (SSO/SAML/OIDC) and RBAC administration.
• Comfort operating with ambiguity in a fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and build integrations to external sources of information, including public APIs, licensed data feeds, partner systems, customer enterprise systems, web content, document repositories, and structured databases.
• Package external capabilities as agent tools and skills with clean interfaces and documentation usable by AI agents and human configurators.
• Develop and maintain full-stack components spanning FastAPI/Python backends, React frontends, Docker containerization, and PostgreSQL.
• Build and consume web APIs (REST, GraphQL) with authentication, pagination, rate limiting, retry/backoff, schema mapping, deduplication, and caching.
• Implement and maintain workflow and task orchestration pipelines using Airflow, Prefect, Celery, or comparable patterns.
• Integrate LLMs into production or near-production apps using OpenAI, Anthropic, or AWS Bedrock.
• Apply security best practices including secrets management, OAuth and API-key handling, defensive parsing, and prompt-injection awareness.
• Collaborate across teams with a product mindset, keeping end-user experience central to decisions.

Skills

Python

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Agentic AI

APIs (REST/GraphQL)

Education

BA/BS Computer Science

MS Computer Science

Tools

FastAPI

React

Docker

PostgreSQL

Airflow

Prefect

Celery

Terraform/OpenTofu

Job description

Peraton is seeking a talented Full Stack & DevSecOps Engineer to join a dynamic team building a cutting-edge Agentic AI platform in Columbus, OH. This hybrid role blends application engineering with platform operations, covering full-stack development, secure integrations, and scalable infrastructure.

You will shape the delivery pipelines, cloud operations, and production readiness while applying security best practices and collaborating across teams to deliver reliable, user-focused