AIML Platform & Agentic Automation Engineer

We are seeking an AI/ML Platform & Agentic Automation Engineer to design develop integrate and maintain shared AI capabilities and intelligent workflow automation across enterprise platforms. This role focuses on integrating approved foundation models and managed AI services through reusable APIs agentic workflows and developer-facing tools rather than developing foundation models from scratch.

The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering and cloud expertise with experience integrating AI services into secure automated workflows. The engineer will collaborate with platform DevSecOps identity cybersecurity and operations teams to deliver reliable auditable and secure AI-enabled capabilities.

• Integrate approved foundation models and managed AI services including AWS Bedrock or comparable platforms into enterprise applications and workflows.

• Develop reusable APIs service wrappers and integration patterns that enable consistent access to model capabilities.

• Implement configurable model-selection and integration approaches that support model updates without requiring extensive changes to consuming applications.

• Support deployment and integration within cloud and restricted environments where approved AI services are available.

• Design and implement agentic workflows to automate repeatable platform engineering service management and operational processes.

• Integrate AI agents with approved tools and APIs including IT service management platforms source control systems infrastructure automation knowledge repositories and observability services.

• Establish appropriate workflow boundaries approval requirements tool permissions auditability and failure-handling mechanisms.

• Develop reusable automation components for account provisioning access requests environment deployment incident enrichment technical documentation retrieval and other approved use cases.

• Develop and maintain AI-powered developer assistants chat interfaces and low-code/no-code capabilities.

• Connect developer-facing tools to approved technical documentation platform guidance service catalogs code examples and engineering resources.

• Integrate AI assistance into development workflows while protecting credentials sensitive information and privileged platform functions.

• Collaborate with platform and developer-support teams to identify repetitive requests that can be addressed through self-service tools and guided automation.

• Integrate AI services with identity and access management role- and attribute-based access controls service identities secrets management and audit mechanisms.

• Enforce established security boundaries access policies and tenant isolation requirements across AI services and agent workflows.

• Coordinate with cybersecurity teams to implement appropriate guardrails data-handling controls logging and authorization requirements.

• Instrument AI services and automated workflows to support monitoring of availability usage failures latency and performance.

• Maintain AI platform components workflow definitions prompts tool integrations and configuration through source control and established engineering review processes.

• Develop automated tests and evaluation scenarios to validate critical workflows before deployment to operational environments.

• Troubleshoot model-service integrations agent behavior workflow failures and developer-assistance capabilities.

• Evaluate approved model and service updates and coordinate controlled implementation with AI/ML operations assurance and platform engineering teams.

• Active TS/SCI clearance with CI Polygraph.

• BS/BA and 5 years of experience an additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.

• Approximately 58 years of experience in software engineering platform engineering cloud engineering workflow automation applied AI/ML engineering or a related technical discipline.

• Hands-on experience integrating applications with foundation models or managed AI services through APIs.

• Strong software development or scripting skills in Python or a comparable programming language.

• Experience developing workflow automation that integrates with external tools services or APIs.

• Experience with AWS services and cloud-native application development patterns.

• Familiarity with Git-based development CI/CD pipelines containers and modern software delivery practices.

• Understanding of authentication authorization secrets management and secure service integration.

• Demonstrated troubleshooting skills across distributed applications and automated workflows.

• Ability to collaborate effectively with software platform cybersecurity and operations teams.

• Hands-on experience with AWS Bedrock or comparable managed foundation-model services.

• Familiarity with Bedrock Agents or other agent-orchestration frameworks.

• Experience implementing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) using approved enterprise data sources.

• Experience integrating ServiceNow GitLab or comparable enterprise platforms through APIs.

• Familiarity with Terraform CloudFormation Ansible or other infrastructure automation tools.

• Experience with OpenTelemetry or comparable application instrumentation and observability tools.

• Familiarity with Kubernetes and container orchestration.

• Experience working in classified restricted or otherwise highly regulated cloud environments.

• Experience evaluating and testing large language model (LLM) applications prompts and agentic workflows.

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the worlds leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider we deliver trusted highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land sea space air and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day our employees do the cant be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit to learn how were keeping people around the world safe and secure.