Senior DevSecOps/Platform Engineer - Secure Cloud Platform

Peraton; Reston (VA); Hybrid; 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 build secure, observable, scalable delivery systems with modern engineering practices and drive platform resilience in production environments.

Ideal candidates bring deep AWS, Kubernetes, and IaC experience, with a focus on secure, compliant, and auditable infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Minimum of BS with 8+ years, MS with 6+ YoE, or PhD with 3+ YoE in platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or closely related roles.
• Deep CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions and/or GitLab CI.
• Senior-level AWS experience across VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, CloudTrail, and KMS.
• Hands-on background operating Amazon EKS / Kubernetes environments.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code using OpenTofu / Terraform.

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 delivery workflows.
• Implement and improve automated testing and quality gates within the software delivery lifecycle, including security testing and deployment controls.
• Lead operational ownership of Amazon EKS / Kubernetes environments, including cluster lifecycle management and GitOps workflows.
• Build and maintain AWS infrastructure across VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, CloudTrail, and KMS.

Skills

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

OpenTofu

CloudWatch

Prometheus Grafana

Education

BS with 8+ years or MS with 6+ YoE or PhD with 3+ YoE in platform engineering

Tools

OpenTofu

Terraform

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 build secure, observable, scalable delivery systems with modern engineering practices and drive platform resilience in production environments.

Ideal candidates bring deep AWS, Kubernetes, and IaC experience, with a focus on secure, compliant, and auditable infrastructure.