Associate DevSecOps Engineer (Python, CI/CD)

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 are the foundational pillars of delivery on which our skills stand. 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 share in operating the automation, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, and secure cloud infrastructure that keep federal systems running. But we hire people, not seats. As the work evolves, you will move to where the hardest problems are.

This 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.

Your first project

Expect your first project to put you shoulder to shoulder with engineers, on pipelines a team leans on every day. Depending on the assignment, you may:

• Contribute to the Terraform or CloudFormation code that defines infrastructure.
• Under senior engineers' guidance, develop and maintain deployment automation and pipelines.
• Pitch in on running Docker containers and Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments, from orchestration to monitoring and logging.
• Wire vulnerability checks, security scans, and policy controls into the delivery pipeline.
• Turn repeatable operational tasks into Python scripts, reaching for Bash or PowerShell when those suit better, and close out every finding that comes back.
• Take a hand in mapping and implementing National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-53 (NIST SP 800-53) controls, and automate the evidence that shows compliance.
• Bring AI-assisted tools into your pipeline, testing, and scripting work, and verify every output they produce.

Code review sees every change you make, and you walk reviewers through the change and your reasons. That is where you learn what makes a change correct, not just that it runs. You automate the team's manual tasks, and you build your share of a practice that designs security in from the start instead of bolting it on later.

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