Cloud/AI Engineer

Location: Arlington, VA, USA; generally remote with occasional visits to office and client facilities in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.

Salary: $165,000–$185,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global is an Arlington-based 8(a) government contractor providing digital transformation, data management and data science, and systems modernization services.

What you will do

• Lead the design, development, deployment, and sustainment of secure, scalable cloud solutions supporting FAA mission objectives.
• Translate government stakeholder requirements into mission-focused technology solutions and support FAA digital transformation initiatives.
• Modernize legacy systems and enterprise platforms through cloud transformation, application modernization, and microservices initiatives.
• Establish architecture, engineering, security, software development, governance, and compliance best practices across project teams.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to engineering teams during Agile delivery.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, resolve complex technical challenges, and maintain architecture documentation and implementation plans.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 15+ years of Cloud Engineer experience.
• Experience delivering enterprise-scale technology solutions across public- and private-sector organizations, including ambiguous environments requiring problem discovery, requirements definition, and solution development.
• Hands-on experience with cloud engineering, cloud-based application development, and full-stack software engineering.
• Experience designing, building, deploying, and operating production-grade applications across frontend interfaces, backend services, and cloud data platforms.
• Experience migrating on-premises systems and data warehouses to cloud platforms, including legacy code refactoring, microservices, data pipeline redesign, schema conversion, and data integrity validation.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, serverless services, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud; Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, or Azure Synapse.
• Strong proficiency in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, FastAPI, SQL, Spark/PySpark, REST APIs, and modern software development frameworks.
• Expertise in CI/CD, DevOps, infrastructure automation with tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation, platform engineering, APIs, event-driven architectures, workflow orchestration, and distributed services.
• Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, distributed systems, cloud architecture, cloud application engineering, security, governance, auditability, data protection, and access controls.
• Experience delivering mission-critical applications in regulated, compliance-sensitive, or enterprise environments, with strong analytical, problem-solving, and systems-thinking skills.
• Must be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance.

Nice to have

• Prior experience in federal contracting or highly regulated enterprise environments.
• Active FAA Public Trust clearance.

Culture & Benefits

• Generally remote work arrangement with occasional office and client-facility visits in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.
• Work/life balance and participation in Agile project delivery.
• Potential performance-based cash bonuses and company growth incentives.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance; generous paid time off; 401(k) with match; life insurance; short- and long-term disability; and a health savings account.