AI DevOps Engineer

Location: Rockville, MD, onsite; travel may be required across the US. Ability to obtain Public Trust clearance required.

Salary: $115,000–$160,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global delivers federal government services across cybersecurity, software development, IT infrastructure, supply chain management, system design, and continuous improvement.

What you will do

• Create and support continuous integration pipelines and reusable automation code.
• Install, configure, upgrade, troubleshoot, and maintain servers, networks, operating systems, application servers, and cloud infrastructure.
• Develop and deploy applications and AI/ML capabilities in collaboration with developers, DBAs, architects, stakeholders, and users.
• Manage troubleshooting, DNS, networking, web service configuration, virtual machines, patches, deployments, analysis tools, and incident management.
• Monitor, debug, optimize, and secure application and infrastructure performance.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, code reviews, documentation, cross-training, and team mentorship.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, or a related field; degrees may be substituted for experience.
• 10 years of relevant experience, including 10 or more years building software from source, managing third-party dynamic libraries, and resolving build-time incompatibilities.
• Experience with AI/ML engineering, generative AI, large language models, AI solution architecture, systems engineering, prototyping, testing, evaluation, performance assessment, monitoring, and responsible AI.
• 10 or more years of database experience and experience with web and Internet technologies including HTML, XML, JSON, HTTP, CSS, SMTP, DNS, REST, OAuth 2, SSL certificates, and HTTP cache headers.
• 10 or more years installing, configuring, and maintaining local services; Windows Server and Linux operating systems; command-line tools; packages; editors; configuration management; and scripting with Ruby, Shell, Perl, Bash, PowerShell, and Python.
• 10 or more years using Git, TFS, CVS, or SVN and configuring, managing, and supporting Apache HTTPD, NGINX, or Java application containers.
• 10 or more years of cloud build and release engineering or DevOps experience with AWS or Azure, including AWS services such as EC2, S3, CloudFront, CloudWatch, SQS, ELB, VPC, RDS, IAM, CloudFormation, and CloudTrail.
• 10 or more years using Linux/Unix system tools and supporting application and operations teams with issue and incident resolution.
• Ability to implement information security and privacy measures, documentation, and technical risk management practices.

Nice to have

• Additional experience applying artificial intelligence and machine learning.
• Knowledge of database systems and cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with Agile and Scrum methodologies.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, teamwork, independence, task management, attention to detail, and commitment to high-quality software.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment supporting federal government programs.
• Eleven federal holidays and paid time off accrued each pay period.
• Parental leave, medical, dental, vision, disability, life, AD&D, and flexible spending benefits.
• 401(k) with competitive matching and vesting schedule.
• Continuing education assistance, employee assistance, wellness, legal, pet, and 529 college savings benefits.