Senior DevSecOps Engineer – Platform Reliability

Peraton; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to join the Agentic AI Platform team in Reston, VA. You will help build and operate the platform across delivery pipelines, cloud infrastructure, monitoring, and security controls.

You will design systems for reliability, security, and auditability, collaborating with senior engineers and customer security teams to deliver production-ready capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 12+ years of exp or equivalent
• Hands-on CI/CD with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI and pipeline-as-code
• Kubernetes experience incl. EKS, RBAC, Helm
• AWS core services exposure (VPC/IAM/S3/RDS/CloudTrail/KMS)
• Infra-as-code with OpenTofu or Terraform
• Monitoring/alerting with CloudWatch/Prometheus/Grafana
• Identity management (SSO/SAML/OIDC) and RBAC
• Security testing integration in pipelines (SAST/DAST/SCA)
• Scripting in Python/Go/Bash
• Secrets management and secure software supply chain
• Trunk-based development and MR-driven releases
• Clear written/verbal communication with stakeholders
• U.S. Citizenship required
• Public Trust clearance eligibility

Responsibilities

• Operate the Agentic AI platform across CI/CD, cloud infra, Kubernetes, observability, and reliability
• Build/maintain CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and GitLab CI
• Improve automated testing and security gates in SDLC
• Plan and execute releases, manage artifacts, and validate post-deployment health
• Manage EKS/Kubernetes environments including RBAC, upgrades, and GitOps
• Build AWS infrastructure (VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, CloudTrail, KMS)
• Provision/infrastructure lifecycles with OpenTofu/Terraform
• Administer identity management and access controls
• Operate monitoring/logging stacks (CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana)
• Triage logs for anomalies and drive remediation with security teams
• Develop alerts, SLO-aligned thresholds, and health indicators
• Build synthetic/transactional monitoring for authentic flows
• Track IAVM notices and patching for compliance
• Implement DAST/runtime security testing in pipelines
• Support secrets management and software supply chain integrity
• Adopt trunk-based development and MR-driven release controls

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Kubernetes / Amazon EKS

AWS core services

OpenTofu / Terraform

Monitoring/Observability

SSO/SAML/OIDC

Security testing (SAST/DAST/SCA)

Scripting (Python/Go/Bash)

Secrets management & least-privilege

Trunk-based development / MR-driven

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree + 12 years exp

Associate's degree + 14 years exp

MS degree + 10 years exp

High school diploma + 16 years exp

Tools

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Kubernetes (EKS)

AWS (VPC/IAM/S3/RDS/CloudTrail/KMS)

OpenTofu / Terraform

CloudWatch / Prometheus / Grafana

SSO/SAML/OIDC

OWASP ZAP / Burp / Nuclei

OpenTelemetry / Loki / Tempo / ELK

Cosign / Sigstore (SBOM)

Job description

Peraton is seeking a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to join the Agentic AI Platform team in Reston, VA. You will help build and operate the platform across delivery pipelines, cloud infrastructure, monitoring, and security controls.

You will design systems for reliability, security, and auditability, collaborating with senior engineers and customer security teams to deliver production-ready capabilities.