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Senior Devops Engineer

Washington, D.C.

Backed by leading investors from Silicon Valley, Peregrine supports public safety agencies across the country — from Los Angeles to Louisville to Atlanta — empowering public servants to improve operations and make better decisions in the moments that matter. Today, our technology is used by customers to serve more than 30 million Americans. We’re motivated to build technologies by partnering with our customers; we listen to their needs, learn from their experiences, and develop effective solutions to help them achieve transformational outcomes. Together, we’re creating safer communities, protecting privacy and civil liberties, and helping everyone in America thrive.

We are a team of public service entrepreneurs who are passionate about solving hard problems. We trust and help each other, and love diving into challenges together. We believe empathy, curiosity, integrity, courage, and excellent execution are key to building impactful software. If mission-focused work is your north star, come build with us. We’re just getting started.

Role

We are looking for a Senior Devops Engineer to join our growing team. As an engineering team, we believe empathy leads to better solutions. Seeing people use the product is a priority and helps us find the right answers. Engineers will have the opportunity to work closely with our team onsite to understand the diverse use cases Peregrine serves. We value strong ownership while fostering collaboration and continuous feedback.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will leverage modern tooling and practices to streamline developer workflows and accelerate delivery across our platform. You'll drive improvements that make it easier, faster, and safer for engineers to ship code. You will take on a wide range of impactful challenges, including:

  • Own the CI/CD lifecycle: Design, secure, and optimize pipelines (GitHub Actions) to accelerate app/data team workflows—from PR to production.
  • Champion DevEx: Reduce friction in local development (e.g., containerized environments) and deployments (e.g., self-service rollbacks).
  • Integrate AI-powered tooling: Enable developers to leverage LLMs (e.g., Claude Sonnet with MCP) for code generation, debugging, and documentation—ensuring secure, context-aware integration with GitHub repos and databases.
  • Collaborate cross-team: Partner with infrastructure engineers on IaC (Terraform, Pulumi) and app/data engineers to debug build/test bottlenecks.
  • Measure and improve: Monitor pipeline health (e.g., success rates, duration) and drive adoption of observability best practices.
  • Automate relentlessly: Replace manual toil (e.g., environment provisioning) with scalable, documented solutions.

Our stack is constantly evolving but is built on AWS GovCloud, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Pulumi, PostgreSQL, Redshift, Elasticsearch, and more.

About You

  • 3+ years in DevOps/SRE roles with a focus on CI/CD and developer productivity.
  • Deep expertise in GitHub Actions (or similar) and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi).
  • Experience supporting Python/React apps (bonus: data pipelines/Kubernetes).
  • Familiarity with AI/LLM tooling (e.g., Claude, GitHub Copilot, or similar) and their safe integration into developer workflows (e.g., access controls, context-aware APIs).
  • Strong communication—you thrive in feedback loops with engineers and stakeholders.
  • A bias for action: You ship incremental improvements while planning long-term fixes.

What We Look For

  • Expertise in modern software development best practices, including deployments, CI/CD, data management, security, and distributed systems
  • Extensive experience with AWS or other cloud platforms, leveraging containerization and orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
  • Proficiency in software engineering, particularly in Python, for developing APIs and automation tools.
  • Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi
  • Strong background in Linux system administration, with proficiency in Python, Bash, or other scripting languages for automation
  • Deep understanding of CI/CD tools, including GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and ArgoCD
  • Located in Washington, D.C. and open to working in office 

Salary Range: $130,000 - $215,000 Annually + Benefits + Equity (if applicable) + Bonus (if applicable)

Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, certifications or licenses, and specific work location. Information on the benefits offered is here.

 

Peregrine Technologies is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We celebrate diversity and are a proud equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

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