DevSecOps Engineer AWS, CI/CD

OpenTalent; Washington; On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Peregrine Advisors is seeking engineers to own secure CI/CD pipelines for federal systems. You will implement security gates, infrastructure-as-code, containerization, and automated testing to ensure production-grade delivery with RMF authorization evidence.

You will work in AWS or client-managed on-prem environments, building reproducible environments and monitoring capabilities that support reliable, auditable deployments. This role emphasizes hands-on automation and security from the start.

Qualifications

Responsibilities

• Own secure CI/CD pipelines with built-in security gates and policy enforcement.
• Manage infrastructure-as-code for reproducible environments in AWS or on-prem.
• Implement containerization, image scanning, least-privilege access, and secrets management.
• Provide monitoring, logging, vulnerability scanning, and automated health checks with blue/green/canary deployments.
• Produce evidence for Authority to Operate (ATO) and continuous monitoring.

Tools

AWS

Containerization

Python

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 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.

• 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 containerization and 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.

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.

• 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.