Job Title: DevOps Engineer
Location: Rockville, MD or Tysons Corner, VA
Duration: 6+ months
The DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer builds and maintains cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines for a generative AI platform. This role is responsible for environment provisioning, container orchestration, CI/CD automation, and infrastructure scaling to support a microservice-based architecture. The DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer takes a broad perspective to infrastructure problems and exercises independent judgment in selecting techniques and evaluation criteria to obtain results.
Infrastructure & Cloud Architecture
• Provision and manage AWS cloud environments across development, staging, and production tiers
• Deploy and operate containerized services and tool servers within a microservice architecture
• Manage container orchestration with blue-green and canary deployment strategies
• Support infrastructure for platform dependencies including search engines, caching layers, and relational databases
• Exercise independent judgment in evaluating and selecting infrastructure approaches and tooling
• Build and manage infrastructure on AWS, leveraging services such as ECS, ECR, IAM, VPC, S3, and CloudWatch
DevOps & CI/CD
• Maintain and extend CI/CD pipelines using shared library patterns for service builds, testing, and deployment across a microservice fleet
• Collaborate with developers on container optimization, startup configuration, and environment management
• Identify gaps between system components and designs and deliver solutions that enable team autonomy
• Develop actionable insights from analyzing infrastructure trends and DevOps best practices, communicating recommendations to management
Monitoring, Scaling & Reliability
• Implement infrastructure monitoring, alerting, and scaling strategies for AI workloads and supporting services
• Ensure platform reliability through capacity planning, performance testing, and incident response processes
• Optimize resource utilization and cost across the cloud environment
Quality & Testing
• Implement and maintain automated infrastructure testing including smoke tests,
health checks, and deployment verification
• Design and execute load testing and performance benchmarking for platform services and AI workloads
• Ensure CI/CD pipelines enforce quality gates including linting, security scanning, and test execution before deployment
• Validate infrastructure-as-code changes through automated testing and peer review processes
Mentorship & Collaboration
• Guide team members in infrastructure best practices, deployment patterns, and operational procedures
• Partner within and across teams to meet shared goals and priorities around platform stability and delivery velocity
• Champion collaborative resolution of infrastructure issues and contribute to internal process improvement initiatives
Security & Compliance
• Assist with adherence to technology policies and comply with all security controls
• Implement secure coding practices, particularly in handling personally identifiable information (PII) and sensitive regulatory data
• Participate in threat modeling and security discussions for API and infrastructure components
• Understand and apply CLIENT's security standards and best practices for regulated financial environments
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