Junior DevSecOps Engineer (AWS, CI/CD)

OpenDataJobs • Washington, DC

16h • Hybrid

About The Position

Peregrine Advisors is a data and technology innovation hub and a Benefit Corporation working at the center of the federal government's mission. We are looking for highly motivated contributors who thrive when trusted to own a hard problem and equipped to deliver the solution. Your first assignment will likely include helping build and operate the secure delivery pipelines that carry federal systems into production. Adaptability and an appetite for learning new concepts, systems, and tools are what will move you forward fastest here. The work is real, hard, and it matters. We hire people, not seats, and we move our best to where the hardest problems are.

Requirements

• Sole United States citizenship and the ability to obtain a Public Trust determination.
• Hybrid role based in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, requiring regular commuting into DC.
• 1-3 years of software development, platform, or operations engineering experience.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Scripting ability (Python, Bash, or PowerShell).
• Working knowledge of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) concepts, with hands-on experience in at least one pipeline tool.
• Familiarity with cloud services on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and with containerization.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (CloudFormation or Terraform).
• Basic proficiency in writing, PowerPoint, and Excel.

Nice To Haves

• Exposure to FISMA compliance, NIST SP 800-53 controls, or Authority to Operate (ATO) processes.
• Vulnerability scanning or security tooling experience (SAST, DAST, or policy-as-code).
• Amazon Web Services exposure or certification.
• Federal information technology experience.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted developer tooling.

Responsibilities

• Building and maintaining continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines that take services from commit to deployment the same way every time, including progressive delivery strategies (blue/green and canary deployments) with automated health checks and rollback.
• Writing infrastructure-as-code on Amazon Web Services (AWS) so environments are created from templates, not by hand.
• Containerizing services and keeping images patched, scanned, and small.
• Wiring up the monitoring, logging, and vulnerability scanning that make systems observable and provably secure.
• Helping assemble the security evidence that carries a system through its Authority to Operate (ATO).
• Building pipelines that a team relies on every day: builds, tests, and deployments that are routine rather than events.
• Implementing the security fabric around them: automated security testing (SAST, DAST, SCA), policy-as-code checks, monitoring and logging, and controls mapped to NIST SP 800-53.
• Developing working automation reviewed by people who explain what to change and why, and chasing down findings along the way.
• Contributing to the shift-left practice that builds security in rather than bolting it on, growing as you show you can carry more.
• Utilizing AI-assisted engineering as standard practice: learning tools like Amazon Q Developer across the lifecycle.
• Contributing to the firm itself in time: new capabilities, tools, and lines of business you help spin up.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision with the employee premium fully paid and half of dependent premiums.
• Employer-paid life, accidental death, and short-term and long-term disability insurance.
• A 401(k) matched 100% up to 4% of salary, vesting immediately.
• Unlimited paid time off.
• Sponsored professional certifications and continuing education.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level