Junior DevSecOps Engineer (AWS, Automation)

At Peregrine Advisors, you will help build and operate the secure delivery pipelines that carry federal systems into production. 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 $80,000 to $95,000 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 and the ability to obtain a Public Trust determination.

We are a data and technology innovation hub and a Benefit Corporation working at the center of the federal government's mission to deliver for client stakeholders and the US public.

Your first project

Your first assignment will likely have you working alongside engineers on the pipelines a team relies on every day. Depending on the assignment, you may:

• Build and maintain pipelines whose builds, tests, and deployments are routine rather than events.
• Add automated security testing, including static and dynamic application security testing and software composition analysis, to the delivery path.
• Set up monitoring and logging, and map controls to National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-53 (NIST SP 800-53).
• Chase down findings and fix them, which is the fastest way to get good at this.

You deliver automation that people review and explain, so you learn why a change is right and not only that it works. You automate what the team does by hand, and you build your part of the practice that puts security in early rather than bolting it on.

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

• 1+ 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

Preferred

• 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)
• Hands-on delivery of production workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS), or an AWS certification
• Federal information technology experience
• Familiarity with AI-assisted developer tooling

Who you are

You treat security and reliability as part of the build, not a gate at the end, and you are highly motivated to develop as an engineer who automates what others do by hand and leaves an audit trail behind. You ask when you are stuck rather than guessing, you take feedback as the fastest route forward, and when priorities shift, you shift with them. You communicate clearly, adapt across roles and clients, and care about creating public value. You experiment, fail, learn, and repeat quickly. You would rather own an outcome than be handed a task.

What you bring

• A foundation in scripting, cloud fundamentals, and delivery automation, and a real appetite to go deeper on the security side.
• The delivery habits, or the willingness to build them fast: version control, automated testing, code review, and secure configuration.
• The communication to say clearly what you have done, what you are stuck on, and what you need.
• The precision to work where accuracy and auditability are not optional.

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.

Peregrine Advisors is an equal opportunity employer.

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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.