DevSecOps Engineer

Uncover; Washington, Northern (District of Columbia, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Peregrine Advisors is a data and technology innovation hub and Benefit Corporation seeking contributors who will own secure CI/CD paths for federal systems in AWS or client-managed on-prem environments. You will build automated security gates, reproducible environments as code, and evidence for RMF authorization and continuous monitoring, with production-grade impact.

This hybrid role is based in the Washington, DC metropolitan area and requires commuting into DC regularly, with a focus on

Qualifications

• Sole United States citizenship and ability to obtain a Public Trust.
• Hybrid role based in the Washington, DC area with regular commuting.
• Hands-on CI/CD in AWS or comparable, infrastructure-as-code, and containerization.
• Experience with automated security testing (SAST/DAST/SCA) and least-privilege design.
• Scripting in Python or Bash for automation.

Responsibilities

• Own secure CI/CD pipelines with built-in security gates and evidence.
• Manage infrastructure-as-code and reproducible environments in AWS or on-prem.
• Implement monitoring, logging, vulnerability scanning, and RMF/ATO evidence.
• Collaborate across teams to deliver production-ready solutions in federal projects.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

AWS-native or comparable

Infrastructure-as-code

Containerization

Security testing (SAST/DAST/SCA)

Vulnerability scanning

Secrets management

Least-privilege design

Python scripting

Auditability/compliance

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Python

Bash

Job description

Peregrine Advisors is a firm founded on a simple conviction: the best solutions come from the people closest to the problem, given real ownership and the tools to deliver. We are a data and technology innovation hub and a Benefit Corporation working at the center of the federal government's mission to deliver for client stakeholders and the US public, looking for highly motivated contributors who thrive when trusted to own a hard problem and equipped to deliver the solution.

Your first assignment

Your first assignment is to own a secure delivery path for federal systems: continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines with security gates built in, infrastructure-as-code that makes environments reproducible, and the automation, monitoring, and evidence that support Risk Management Framework (RMF) authorization and continuous monitoring. You will work in Amazon Web Services (AWS) or in a client-managed, on-premises environment, and what you build will carry real systems into production. The work is real, hard, and it matters. It is also where you start, not the shape of your career here: we hire people, not seats, and we move our best to where the hardest problems are.

What you'll build

CI/CD pipelines with security built into the path: automated security testing (SAST, DAST, SCA), policy-as-code checks, and controlled promotion, so a release passes review because the pipeline enforced the required controls and produced evidence for review. The infrastructure under them, as code: reproducible environments with container-image scanning, least-privilege access, secrets management, and encryption as defaults rather than add-ons. The operational fabric: monitoring, logging, and vulnerability scanning; progressive delivery and low-downtime deployment strategies, including blue/green and canary deployments, with automated health checks and rollback; incident response; pipeline reliability and software-delivery performance metrics; and the evidence that supports an Authority to Operate (ATO) and continuous monitoring. In time, the firm itself: new capabilities, tools, and lines of business you help spin up.

Who you are

You treat security and reliability as part of the build, not a gate at the end, because in a federal environment they cannot be an afterthought. You automate what others do by hand and you leave an audit trail behind you. You experiment, fail, learn, and repeat quickly. You would rather own an outcome than be handed a task.

What you bring

Hands-on CI/CD (AWS-native or comparable), infrastructure-as-code, and containerization for deploying real systems in AWS or in a client-managed, on-premises environment. The security craft around the pipeline: automated security testing (SAST, DAST, SCA), vulnerability scanning, secrets management, and least-privilege design. The scripting to automate what the tools do not: Python or Bash beyond pipeline configuration. The judgment to build where security and auditability are not optional.

What you'll need

Sole United States citizenship and the ability to obtain a Public Trust determination are required for this initial engagement. This is a hybrid role based in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, and it requires commuting into DC regularly.

What we offer

A high-performing team of developers, engineers, data scientists, architects, and strategists solving complex, real-world problems, with work that runs from strategy formulation to hands-on implementation. We develop people across roles and clients, with extensive onboarding and sponsored training and professional development. And Peregrine has been a Benefit Corporation from day one: public value is built into the work itself, not bolted on afterward. Work worth your best years.

What we commit to

As a Benefit Corporation, our commitment runs three ways: real, measurable value for our clients; government that works better for the public; and a team that makes everyone in it better. We hire people who want to help build the firm, not just work at it.

Peregrine Advisors is an equal opportunity employer.

Peregrine exclusively works with OPEN Data Jobs to recruit our team.