Senior DevSecOps & Platform Engineer for Secure AI Infra

Socket.dev; Basking Ridge (NJ); On-site; USD 112,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton Labs is seeking a Senior DevSecOps / Platform Engineer to own the Agentic AI platform end-to-end, from CI/CD pipelines through EKS cluster operations and AWS infrastructure. You will design, build, and run secure, observable, and auditable platform capabilities that enable reliable AI-enabled delivery.

The role requires deep engineering pragmatism, strong operational discipline, and a track record of delivering production-grade platform infrastructure with a focus on security and

Qualifications

• Minimum of BS with 8+ years of experience, MS with 6+ YoE, or PhD with 3+ YoE in platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or closely related infrastructure engineering roles.
• Deep CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions and/or GitLab CI.
• Strong hands-on background operating Amazon EKS / Kubernetes environments.
• Senior-level AWS experience across core services including VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, CloudTrail, and KMS.
• Strong experience building and operating monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions at scale using CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, or equivalent.
• Hands-on infrastructure-as-code experience using OpenTofu / Terraform.
• Experience supporting agile delivery models, including trunk-based development, MR-driven change, and automated quality gates.
• Strong security and compliance engineering foundation, including secrets management, least privilege, supply chain integrity, and audit evidence support.
• Experience implementing automated testing in CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience running DAST and security testing against live services in pipeline workflows, including triage and gating of findings alongside SAST/SCA results.
• Experience building synthetic and transactional monitoring, including scripted health checks that validate real auth flows and critical transactions.
• Strong troubleshooting, systems thinking, and operational ownership mindset.
• US Citizenship is a requirement for this position.

Responsibilities

• Own and operate the Agentic AI platform end-to-end across CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes operations, observability, and runtime reliability.
• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines across GitHub Actions and/or GitLab CI, enabling secure, repeatable, and efficient delivery workflows.
• Implement and improve automated testing and quality gates within the software delivery lifecycle, including build validation, integration checks, security testing, and deployment controls.
• Lead operational ownership of Amazon EKS / Kubernetes environments, including cluster lifecycle management, upgrades, troubleshooting, RBAC, Helm-based deployments, pod identity, and GitOps-aligned workflows.
• Build and maintain AWS infrastructure supporting platform and application needs across services such as VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, CloudTrail, and KMS.
• Own infrastructure provisioning and lifecycle management through OpenTofu / Terraform and related infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Design and operate a mature monitoring, logging, and alerting stack using CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, or equivalent tooling.
• Develop actionable alerts, service health indicators, and SLO-aligned operational thresholds that support fast triage and resilient service delivery.
• Build and maintain synthetic and transactional monitoring that exercises real authentication flows, user journeys, and critical service transactions.
• Implement and maintain DAST and runtime security testing in delivery pipelines using tools such as OWASP ZAP, Burp, Nuclei, or equivalent.
• Support security-focused CI/CD practices including secrets management, least privilege, software supply chain integrity, and audit evidence generation.
• Drive modern engineering delivery patterns such as trunk-based development, merge-request-driven change, and automated release quality controls.

Skills

CI/CD

Kubernetes

AWS

Monitoring/Logging

Infrastructure as Code

Security Testing

Automated Testing

SRE/Platform Engineering

Agile Delivery

Troubleshooting

Tools

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

OpenTofu

Terraform

CloudWatch

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Peraton Labs is seeking a Senior DevSecOps / Platform Engineer to own the Agentic AI platform end-to-end, from CI/CD pipelines through EKS cluster operations and AWS infrastructure. You will design, build, and run secure, observable, and auditable platform capabilities that enable reliable AI-enabled delivery.

The role requires deep engineering pragmatism, strong operational discipline, and a track record of delivering production-grade platform infrastructure with a focus on security and