Title: DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer
Location : McLean, VA or Rockville, MD
Target Start Date : ASAP
Type: contract
Pay Rate: DOE
The DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for building and maintaining cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines for a modern, AI-enabled platform. This role focuses on environment provisioning, container orchestration, CI/CD automation, and scalable infrastructure to support microservices-based applications. The engineer applies strong judgment to evaluate and implement effective infrastructure solutions.
Key Responsibilities Infrastructure & Cloud Architecture - Provision and manage cloud environments across development, staging, and production
- Deploy and operate containerized services within a microservices architecture
- Manage container orchestration, including blue-green and canary deployment strategies
- Support infrastructure for platform dependencies such as search services, caching layers, and databases
- Evaluate and implement infrastructure tooling and architectural approaches
- Build and manage cloud infrastructure using services such as compute, container registries, identity/access management, networking, storage, and monitoring tools
DevOps & CI/CD - Design, maintain, and enhance CI/CD pipelines for building, testing, and deploying services across environments
- Collaborate with engineering teams on container optimization, configuration, and environment management
- Identify gaps across systems and implement solutions that improve scalability and team autonomy
- Analyze infrastructure trends and recommend improvements based on best practices
Monitoring, Scaling & Reliability - Implement monitoring, alerting, and auto-scaling strategies for platform services and workloads
- Ensure system reliability through capacity planning, performance testing, and incident response
- Optimize infrastructure performance and cost efficiency
Quality & Testing - Develop and maintain automated infrastructure testing (smoke tests, health checks, deployment validation)
- Conduct load testing and performance benchmarking
- Enforce quality gates in CI/CD pipelines (testing, linting, security scanning)
- Validate infrastructure-as-code changes through automation and peer review
Mentorship & Collaboration - Provide guidance on infrastructure best practices and deployment strategies
- Partner with cross-functional teams to support platform stability and delivery goals
- Contribute to process improvements and operational excellence initiatives
Security & Compliance - Ensure adherence to security policies and best practices
- Implement secure development and infrastructure practices, particularly for sensitive data
- Participate in threat modeling and security reviews for systems and APIs
- Support compliance requirements in regulated or security-conscious environments
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