Junior DevSecOps Engineer - Build Secure CI/CD Pipelines

Peregrine Advisors; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) with match

Unlimited PTO

Certifications sponsorship

Job summary

Peregrine Advisors seeks a software-oriented engineer to help build secure delivery pipelines for federal systems in the Washington, DC area. You will work with engineers on daily pipelines, add automated security tests, and map controls to NIST SP 800-53.

The role emphasizes learning, automation, and ownership, with opportunities to grow as the company expands its capabilities and lines of business.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of software development, platform, or operations engineering experience.
• Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/cybersecurity/engineering or related field.
• Scripting ability in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Hands-on CI/CD concepts with at least one pipeline tool.
• Familiarity with AWS and Docker/containerization.
• Basic container orchestration knowledge.
• IaC tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Foundational Linux experience.
• Networking, APIs, load balancing, and web apps knowledge.
• Cloud security and secure software delivery understanding.
• Ability to troubleshoot deployment issues.
• Experience with AI-assisted tools like GitHub Copilot.
• Proficiency in PowerPoint and Excel.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain pipelines whose builds, tests, and deployments are routine.
• Add automated security testing to the delivery path.
• Set up monitoring and logging and map controls to NIST SP 800-53.
• Chase down security and reliability findings and fix them.
• Explain changes during code review and automate manual tasks.

Skills

Software development

Scripting

CI/CD

AWS

Docker

Container orchestration

Terraform

Linux

Networking

Cloud security

Troubleshooting

GitHub Copilot

Office tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, cybersecurity, engineering, or related technical discipline

Job description

Peregrine Advisors seeks a software-oriented engineer to help build secure delivery pipelines for federal systems in the Washington, DC area. You will work with engineers on daily pipelines, add automated security tests, and map controls to NIST SP 800-53.

The role emphasizes learning, automation, and ownership, with opportunities to grow as the company expands its capabilities and lines of business.