Databricks Platform and DevSecOps Engineer

About Peregrine

Peregrine Advisors is a rapidly growing AI and data innovation hub helping government solve hard problems and deliver better outcomes. We work across the full lifecycle—from strategy and governance through architecture, engineering, analytics, AI, visualization, and training—for clients including the SEC, PCAOB, DDOT, and DCAA.

Our clients describe our support as “absolutely excellent” and our people as “instrumental to organization’s success.” Winner of the United Nations COP27 Datathon, our work has earned all Exceptional CPARS ratings, SEC Chair’s Awards, the SEC Vision Award, and recognition from FDA leadership.

We are also built differently. Peregrine is the first and only social enterprise organized as a Benefit Corporation and SBA 8(a) company focused on AI and data for government. We believe business success should create client value, social value, and opportunity for our people.

As we enter our next stage of growth, we need dependable, motivated, and skilled people who have a combination of intellectual curiosity and intellectual courage. With new clients, larger programs, and expanding responsibilities, the people joining Peregrine now will have the opportunity to help shape the company we become.

People first. Ownership always.

We solve problems through people, process, and technology—in that order. Technology matters, but people make transformation happen. That principle defines our culture. Trust and motivation come before competence. We hire people we can trust, who care deeply about what they do, take ownership, learn quickly, help one another, and refuse to walk past a problem because it belongs to someone else.

At Peregrine, you are not joining simply to fill a position. You are joining a team, taking ownership of a mission, and helping build a company. If that excites you, we should talk.

At Peregrine Advisors, you will own the environments, the deployment path, and the platform operations beneath production data products for a federal agency. But we hire people, not seats. As the work evolves, you will learn new systems and tools, take on greater responsibility, and help develop the firm's capabilities, tools, and lines of business. We move our best to where the hardest problems are.

This is a full-time W-2 position with a salary of $120,000 to $140,000 per year. It is a hybrid work arrangement based in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, and the commuting cadence varies by assignment. The initial engagement requires United States citizenship, no dual citizenship where prohibited by the contract, and the ability to satisfy the required suitability, security, and access requirements.

Your first project

Your first project will likely have you building the environments and the deployment automation the rest of the team builds on, and supporting them through cutover. Depending on the assignment, you may:

• Stand up and maintain the Azure Databricks environments, including the access, secrets, and networking they depend on.

• Build the deployment automation that promotes work between environments, using Declarative Automation Bundles (formerly Databricks Asset Bundles), infrastructure as code, and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI and CD) pipelines.

• Tune Delta pipelines and platform performance.
• Run platform operations, and write the runbooks that let someone else operate what you built.
• Support environment parity, migration, and cutover alongside the Databricks team, under Peregrine change control, including bindings, rollback, and the evidence a release review needs.

You deliver environments that behave the same way twice and a deployment path the team can use without asking you. You automate the promotion, checks, and evidence that would otherwise be assembled by hand before every release, and you leave the runbooks and controls that keep the platform supportable after cutover.

This is where you start, not the shape of your career here.

• 4+ years of platform engineering, DevSecOps, or cloud infrastructure experience

• Hands-on Azure Databricks platform work, including Unity Catalog and Delta pipeline performance

• Deployment automation and environment promotion, including infrastructure as code and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI and CD) pipelines
• Cloud networking, secrets management, and least-privilege access design in a governed environment
• Platform operations for a production data platform
• Migration and cutover support, including environment parity, rollback planning, and the evidence a release review asks for
• Scripting in Python or Bash, and Git-based version control
• Platform or DevSecOps work in at least one cloud environment other than Databricks, for example Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Google Cloud
• Delivery experience in a federal government environment, working to its security, access, and review processes
• Proficiency in writing, PowerPoint, and Excel

Preferred

• Experience on a federal system accredited at Impact Level 5 (IL-5) or higher

• Declarative Automation Bundles (formerly Databricks Asset Bundles), Terraform, or Azure DevOps pipelines

• Databricks certification, or an Azure or Amazon Web Services cloud certification
• Federal security experience supporting compliance frameworks, security controls, and authorization evidence
• Familiarity with artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted developer tooling

Who you are

You treat the platform as a product the team depends on, and you would rather automate a step than document a workaround for it. You think in environments, permissions, and failure modes, and you check that a change behaves the same way in the next environment as it did in the last one. You experiment, fail, learn, and repeat quickly. You would rather own an outcome than be handed a task.

What you bring

• Hands-on work with Azure Databricks environments, including Unity Catalog and Delta performance.

• The deployment craft around the platform, including infrastructure as code, environment promotion, and release automation.

• Working depth in a second cloud platform, so you can judge a design on its tradeoffs rather than one vendor's defaults.
• The operations discipline that migration and cutover demand, including parity, rollback, and evidence.

You adapt your development workflow as AI tools evolve, using them to help implement, test, and improve the components you own. You give the tools clear context, review and test their output, and remain accountable for the code you deliver.

When we talk

Be prepared to discuss a difficult problem you worked through, the decisions you made, what happened, and what you learned.

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; and sponsored professional certifications and continuing education.

What we offer

You will work alongside developers, engineers, data scientists, architects, and strategists, on work ranging from strategy to implementation. We support your development across assignments and clients through extensive onboarding, sponsored professional certifications such as the Data Management Capability Assessment Model (DCAM) and AWS technical certifications, and rotation across functions to expand your skills and perspective. The mission is real, the problems are hard, and you own what you ship.

What we commit to

As a Benefit Corporation, our commitment runs three ways: real, measurable value for our clients; government that works better for the public; and a team that makes everyone in it better.

We hire people who want to help build the firm, not just work at it. If that is you, apply.

Peregrine Advisors is an equal opportunity employer.

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