Full-Time
Full Stack and DevSecOps Engineer
Updated on 9/4/2026
Peraton
10,001+ employees
Delivers defense, intelligence technology for government
Compensation Overview
$66k - $106k/yr
No H1B Sponsorship
Columbus, OH, USA
Hybrid
Candidates must currently reside in the Columbus area or be willing to relocate.
US Citizenship Required
Bachelor's, Master's
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- A minimum of a BA/BS degree with 2 years of experience; MS degree with 0 years of experience.
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or Computer Engineering.
- Hands-on experience building with AI agents, including multi-step reasoning, tool use, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, or autonomous task execution.
- Strong Python skills, including Python 3.12 or later, async/await patterns, type hints, and modern Python tooling.
- Familiarity with agentic frameworks and concepts such as chains, tool calling, and agent loops.
- Experience operating continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines in GitHub Actions and/or GitLab CI.
- Experience with Amazon Web Services cloud infrastructure, including VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, CloudTrail, and KMS.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, preferably Amazon EKS, including cluster upgrades, RBAC, Helm, and GitOps workflows.
- Experience building and maintaining Terraform/OpenTofu infrastructure as code.
- Strong skills in release planning, deployment automation, validation, and rollback procedures.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting systems such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana.
- Ability to perform anomaly detection and log analysis and troubleshoot configuration and security issues.
- Practical understanding of secrets management, least privilege, software supply chain security, and audit evidence.
- Experience performing vulnerability remediation and managing Information Assurance Vulnerability Management or similar compliance requirements.
- Familiarity with dynamic application security testing and runtime security testing tools such as OWASP ZAP, Burp, and Nuclei.
- Experience with identity provider integration, including SSO, SAML, OIDC, and RBAC administration.
- U.S. citizenship is required.
- Ability to obtain a Public Trust.
- Comfort operating with some ambiguity in a fast-moving environment.
- Design and build integrations to external information sources, including public APIs, licensed data feeds, partner systems, customer enterprise systems, web content, document repositories, and structured databases.
- Package external capabilities as agent tools and skills with clean interfaces, predictable inputs and outputs, sound error handling, and documentation usable by AI agents and human configurators.
- Develop and maintain full-stack components spanning FastAPI and Python backends, React frontends, Docker containerization, and PostgreSQL.
- Build and consume web APIs, including REST and GraphQL, while handling authentication, pagination, rate limiting, retry and backoff, schema mapping, deduplication, and caching.
- Implement and maintain workflow and task orchestration pipelines using Airflow, Prefect, Celery, or comparable agent orchestration patterns.
- Integrate large language models into production or near-production applications using APIs such as OpenAI, Anthropic, or AWS Bedrock.
- Apply security best practices to agentic and external integration work, including secrets management, OAuth and API-key handling, defensive parsing, and prompt-injection awareness.
- Build and maintain continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines across GitHub Actions and/or GitLab CI.
- Implement and improve automated testing and quality gates, including build validation, integration checks, security testing, and deployment controls.
- Plan and execute releases and deployments by coordinating change windows, managing release artifacts, running deployment automation, validating post-deployment health, and supporting rollback procedures.
- Support operational ownership of Amazon EKS and Kubernetes environments, including cluster lifecycle activities, upgrades, troubleshooting, RBAC, Helm-based deployments, pod identity, and GitOps-aligned workflows.
- Build and maintain AWS infrastructure across VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, CloudTrail, and KMS.
- Contribute to infrastructure provisioning and lifecycle management through OpenTofu, Terraform, and related infrastructure-as-code practices.
- Administer platform user management through identity provider integration, SSO/SAML/OIDC, RBAC, provisioning and deprovisioning workflows, and periodic access reviews.
- Design and operate monitoring, logging, and alerting using CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, or equivalent tooling.
- Assess system logs to detect anomalies, configuration drift, misuse, and security-relevant events; triage findings and drive remediation.
- Build and maintain synthetic and transactional monitoring that exercises real authentication flows, user journeys, and critical service transactions.
- Track and remediate Information Assurance Vulnerability Management notices and other vulnerability advisories, maintain inventory accuracy, drive patching to closure, and produce compliance reporting evidence.
- Implement and maintain dynamic application security testing and runtime security testing in delivery pipelines using OWASP ZAP, Burp, Nuclei, or equivalent tools.
- Support security-focused continuous integration and continuous delivery practices, including secrets management, least privilege, software supply chain integrity, and audit evidence generation.
- Collaborate across teams with a product mindset while keeping the end-user experience central to technical decisions.
- Production experience with agent frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, AutoGen, OpenAI Agents SDK, Anthropic tool use, or comparable frameworks, including judgment about when each is appropriate.
- Experience designing and operating retrieval-augmented generation systems, including chunking strategies, embedding models, vector stores, hybrid retrieval, reranking, and grounding and citation patterns.
- Experience integrating knowledge graphs, document stores, or curated content repositories as agent-accessible sources.
- Experience evaluating agent and large language model systems by building evaluation harnesses, golden datasets, regression testing, and observability for non-deterministic systems.
- Exposure to orchestration patterns including supervisor agents, parallel tool calls, human-in-the-loop flows, and directed acyclic graph-based pipeline execution.
- Experience building plugin or extension systems using dynamic code loading, container isolation, and API mixin patterns.
- Familiarity with prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, or agent observability.
- Familiarity with federal compliance environments such as FedRAMP, FIPS 140-2/3, IronBank container hardening, OPA policy enforcement, or Section 508 accessibility.
- Experience with observability tooling such as OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Prometheus, and Grafana for distributed tracing and metrics.
- Experience with container orchestration, including the Docker SDK and Kubernetes, and distributed storage such as S3, MinIO, or JuiceFS.
- Experience designing synthetic or transactional monitoring tied to user journeys and critical service flows.
- Experience developing service-level objectives, service health indicators, and high-fidelity operational alerting.
- Experience with modern delivery patterns such as trunk-based development, merge-request-driven change, and automated release quality controls.
- Experience in security-focused continuous integration and continuous delivery or DevSecOps environments.
- Experience coordinating with customer security teams or operating within compliance frameworks.
- Prior work building internal tooling, enterprise automation products, or platforms for government customers.
Peraton helps government clients in defense, intelligence, and critical infrastructure by delivering advanced technology solutions and services. Its offerings include cyber-hardened systems, systems engineering, and mission-critical support that protect national security. The company works through long-term government contracts and strategic partnerships to provide comprehensive, multi-year programs. It prioritizes a strong workforce, actively recruiting veterans, Guard and Reserve members, and military spouses to bring disciplined, mission-focused talent. Unlike many competitors, Peraton emphasizes collaboration with partners under clear, fair engagement rules to expand capabilities and deliver integrated solutions. The overall goal is to ensure reliable, secure technology and services for national security and critical infrastructure while sustaining growth through steady government contracts.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
Grant
Total Funding
$60M
Headquarters
Herndon, Virginia
Founded
2017
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- DISA selected Peraton for a ten-year communications infrastructure role on August 16, 2026.
- CMS awarded Peraton an $825.9 million ClaimsCore modernization contract on May 29, 2026.
- Peraton added Scott Fear, former NSA CIO, on September 2, 2026, strengthening enterprise IT credibility.
What critics are saying
- CMS will award ClaimsCore task orders competitively through 2033, squeezing margins and predictability.
- Peraton reported 35 Maryland WARN layoffs in February 2026, signaling ongoing restructuring pressure.
- If Peraton[x] fails FedRAMP High or agency adoption, rivals will own AI modernization budgets.
What makes Peraton unique
- Peraton Labs shipped Peraton[x] in July 2026, turning R&D into sellable mission software.
- Peraton won DISA's $953 million CSC III communications contract on August 16, 2026.
- Peraton combines cleared government integration with AI-capable networking through Graphiant partnership on May 12, 2026.
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↑ 0%Peraton taps Former NSA executive Scott Fear as strategic adviser for enterprise IT. by Miles Jamison September 2, 2026, 11:34 am * Former NSA executive Scott Fear was named senior strategic adviser at Peraton * Fear retired from the NSA in May after nearly 39 years of service * He most recently served as NSA chief information officer and director of capabilities Peraton has appointed former National Security Agency executive Scott Fear as senior strategic adviser for enterprise IT following nearly four decades at the intelligence agency. The company announced the appointment Tuesday on LinkedIn. Who is Scott Fear? Fear retired from the National Security Agency in May after nearly 39 years of service, where he directed large, complex hardware and software development organizations. Throughout his career, the senior executive built deep experience in cyber operations and enterprise IT transformation. He also has a track record of helping guide the integration of emerging technologies into national security and intelligence missions. What experience does Fear bring to Peraton? Fear most recently served as chief information officer and director of capabilities. He also served as senior manager for processing and analytic capabilities for three years and was previously a senior manager for computer network operations for three years. He spent most of his NSA career, which started in 1987, as an intelligence community professional, according to his LinkedIn profile. What is Peraton? Peraton is a technology and national security company that integrates mission capabilities and delivers enterprise IT services for government customers, with technologies that defend against threats in both digital and physical operating domains.
Peraton, Graphiant partner to deliver next gen network services. Peraton and Graphiant, a secure AI-capable networking services company, are partnering to deliver next-generation network services for government missions. Together, the companies bring a modern, stateless network foundation with mission integration expertise to strengthen connectivity, security and operational agility in dynamic environments, the company said. "This partnership strengthens Peraton's ability to deliver the secure, agile connectivity that government missions demand," said Christine Palmer, CTO of Peraton's federal civilian sector. "Collaborating with Graphiant means a more resilient and responsive network for the critical operations we support." This next-generation networking approach supports AI-enabled applications and data-intensive missions while maintaining reliable connectivity in contested or disrupted environments. It combines resilient network infrastructure with zero-trust security, policy-driven access and segmentation, and governance and controls aligned with FedRAMP requirements and NIST guidance. "Peraton has a track record of excellence in solving the toughest national security challenges and serving the United States," said Ali Shaikh, CEO of Graphiant. "Partnering with them was natural as we invest in building better sovereignty into our national infrastructure and ensuring that our nation remains at the forefront of a secure AI-enabled future." Staff Writer WashingtonExec celebrates the people, programs, and milestones shaping the Washington, D.C. government contracting community. Join 30,000+ leaders who start their day with The Daily. Our latest executive profiles, council news, and GovCon headlines - every morning.
Everforth ECS selects Peraton's Sam Yousef as Global Defense head. * Everforth ECS has chosen Sam Yousef as the new head of its global defense business unit * Yousef has nearly 20 years of experience under its belt, serving in Peraton as well as the Department of War * Yousef will be responsible for strategizing the growth of programs that cater to the DOW and NATO Everforth ECS announced Wednesday that Sam Yousef, former sector vice president and chief technology officer of Peraton, will be the new business unit head of Everforth ECS Global Defense. In his new role, Yousef will oversee strategy, growth, and delivery for programs concerning the U.S. Department of War and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. What experience does Sam Yousef bring to the role? Yousef brings nearly 20 years of experience in government service and government contracting. He worked at Peraton for almost two years, driving growth in the company's estimated $1 billion defense and health business. From 2012 to 2023, Yousef served various roles in the Department of War. He served as director of policy support for Defense Human Resources Activity and later became deputy director of the Defense Manpower Data Center, one of the agency's data and identity ecosystems. Yousef's earlier career experience includes one year as a privacy officer in the U.S. Marine Corps and three years as a senior consultant at Deloitte. What contracts did Everforth ECS secure before Yousef's appointment? Yousef's appointment comes as Everforth ECS carries out its new contracts with the U.S. Army and the Defense Health Agency. Just this week, the Defense Health Agency awarded the company a four-year, $30 million contract to deliver analytics and modernization support to the Defense Health Agency. The contract is expected to benefit the Information Technology Program Support and Analytics Services program. On July 29, the company announced that it was awarded a three-year, $115 million contract to provide artificial intelligence services for the Nautilus for AI Research and Development program of the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory.
Former Peraton executive Zeshan Khan named Unissant VP of Enterprise Solutions. * As Unissant VP of Enterprise Solutions, Zeshan Khan will support growth efforts tied to homeland security, defense and intelligence missions * He will help shape enterprise architecture and technical strategies for key pursuits * Khan previously held leadership roles at Peraton, Perspecta, OG Systems, IBM and Accenture What will Khan do at Unissant? Khan's responsibilities include driving growth for missions supporting defense, homeland security and the intelligence community, while leading enterprise architecture work and technical strategy development for the National Security Business Unit's pursuits. Alka Bhave, chief operating officer and general manager of national security at Unissant, said Khan's background in developing new capabilities and leading capture efforts positions him to help advance the company's growth goals and address customer mission needs. "He knows how to architect enterprise solutions to solve our customers' hardest challenges while remaining grounded by the customer's mission needs," said Bhave. Khan's appointment follows other efforts to expand Unissant's national security business. In March, the company named Shaun Swartz vice president of defense to oversee growth strategy for defense customers, while it launched MissionWORKS in July, a framework designed to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies across federal agencies. What experience does Khan bring? Khan has spent more than 25 years turning federal agency requirements into technical strategies for large, complex procurements, work that has helped agencies win federal opportunities, including multibillion-dollar contracts, by bringing cross-functional teams together under a mission-focused approach. He joins Unissant after serving senior-level roles in technical strategy and business growth, including director of strategy and technical services at Peraton and senior adviser on digital strategies and transformation at Perspecta, which Veritas Capital acquired in May 2021 and later integrated with Peraton. Khan also held leadership positions at OG Systems and IBM, and earlier served as a systems engineering consultant at Accenture.
CGI's $161M State dept passport contract expires soon. By Harvey Bennett Published: July 16, 2026 The $161M passport processing powerhouse. While most federal contractors are scanning for cloud migrations or cybersecurity RFPs, a massive operational opportunity is quietly ticking down at the Department of State. CGI Federal Inc. currently holds the reins on contract 19AQMM24C0062, valued at a staggering $161,150,000. This isn't a typical IT implementation gig. This is the backbone of American international travel. The scope involves comprehensive onsite management, administration, and processing support at three Passport Centers and twenty-four Passport Agencies nationwide. From initial applications to renewals for both books and cards, CGI is handling the high-volume, high-stakes transactional workflow that keeps the Bureau of Consular Affairs running. Why this expiration matters. The contract was awarded on May 9, 2025. In the federal contracting world, a base period of one year with options is common for service contracts of this nature, but the sheer scale here suggests a long-term operational dependency. If XAZA Health is looking at the tail end of the initial period or early option years, the impending expiration or potential recompete represents one of the largest single-point-of-failure risks for the State Department's consular operations. For the market, this signals a few critical things: * Operational Continuity is King: The State Department cannot afford downtime in passport issuance. Any successor or competitor must demonstrate robust disaster recovery, secure data handling (PII/PIV), and seamless transition plans. * Hybrid Workforce Models: The scope requires "onsite" support. This isn't a remote-only IT job. Contractors need a proven ability to recruit, train, and retain staff in geographically dispersed, secure facilities. * Integration Complexity: Passport processing involves legacy systems, modern databases, and strict security protocols. The winning bid will likely hinge on how well a contractor can integrate with existing State Department IT infrastructure without disrupting the customer experience. Who else is in the running? While CGI Federal has entrenched itself as the incumbent, the federal services market is competitive. Look for players with strong backgrounds in government operations, customer service outsourcing, and secure facilities management. Companies like Leidos, Booz Allen Hamilton, and Peraton often compete in high-security, high-volume operational support roles. Additionally, specialized firms with experience in identity management and secure document processing could pose a threat. Recent activity from CGI, such as the $6,900 incremental funding (19AQMM24F7347) and the BPA call modification for financial support (191NLE26F7059), indicates they are actively managing and expanding their footprint within the State Department ecosystem. This makes them a formidable incumbent to displace. Actionable intelligence for contractors. If you're considering bidding on a recompete or competing for future task orders related to this space, focus on these three areas: * Security Clearance & Vetting: Ensure your workforce has the necessary clearances and background checks for working in secure passport facilities. * Scalability: Demonstrate how you can scale staff up or down during peak travel seasons (summer, holidays) without sacrificing service quality. * Technology Enablement: While the core service is operational, the most compelling bids will show how technology (automation, AI-assisted verification, digital customer portals) can improve efficiency and reduce errors. Keep a close eye on the State Department's acquisition pipeline. A contract of this magnitude doesn't disappear overnight; it either gets extended, re-competed, or broken into smaller, more manageable lots. The next move from the State Department's Acquisition Management Office (AQM Momentum) will be critical. Stay updated on government IT opportunities. No spam, ever. Unsubscribe with one click. Source data. * Contract Award - 191NLE26F7059 STATE, DEPARTMENT OF - Source: FPDS.gov * Contract Award - 19AQMM24A0275 STATE, DEPARTMENT OF - Source: FPDS.gov * Contract Award - 19AQMM24C0062 STATE, DEPARTMENT OF - Source: FPDS.gov * Contract Award - 19AQMM24F0773 STATE, DEPARTMENT OF - Source: FPDS.gov * Contract Award - 19AQMM24F1684 STATE, DEPARTMENT OF - Source: FPDS.gov * Contract Award - 19AQMM24F7347 STATE, DEPARTMENT OF - Source: FPDS.gov