AI Automation Engineer (AIOps)

Location: Fully remote/telework or hybrid/flex within the United States; U.S. citizenship required

Salary: USD $124,397–$138,003 per year

Company

hirify.global develops high-technology solutions, products, and services for defense, scientific, and mission-critical applications.

What you will do

• Modernize critical enterprise systems through intelligent automation, AI-powered infrastructure, and agentic AI workflows.
• Design and implement end-to-end automation solutions using GitLab CI, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Ansible.
• Build and manage secure, scalable CI/CD pipelines for testing, deployment, and operational workflows.
• Design, deploy, and manage MCP servers that expose tools, data sources, and APIs to AI agents and LLM-powered workflows.
• Build agent skills and multi-step workflows that interact autonomously with infrastructure, pipelines, operational systems, databases, and third-party APIs.
• Apply AIOps principles, automated compliance, self-healing infrastructure, and proactive reliability engineering in regulated and mission-critical environments.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering or a related science, engineering, technology, or mathematics field, plus 5+ years of job-related experience; alternatively, a master’s degree plus 3 years of experience.
• U.S. citizenship is required.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and GitLab CI for infrastructure automation, container orchestration, and CI/CD.
• Experience deploying AI/ML models, LLM-based assistants, or agentic frameworks in production or operational environments.
• Understanding of prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, MCP, OAuth 2.0/OpenID Connect, token management, scoped permissions, and least-privilege access.
• Ability to design secure AI integrations and reliable automation for complex, regulated, or mission-critical environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Research-oriented work focused on practical solutions for national security.
• Flexible schedules, including an optional every-other-Friday-off 9/80 schedule.
• 401(k) matching, flexible time off, paid parental leave, and healthcare benefits.
• Health and wellness programs, employee resource groups, and social groups.
• Opportunities for continuous learning and career development.