AI Infrastructure Engineer

TL;DR

AI Infrastructure Engineer (AI): Use AI tools to analyze data migration, design flexible data architectures, and optimize database performance with an accent on automated deployment, self-healing systems, and proactive reliability. Focus on building CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes orchestration, intelligent integrations, and AI-powered observability to ensure mission-critical system reliability.

Location: U.S. citizenship required. Department of Defense Secret security clearance required at time of hire. Work performed within facilities subject to U.S. Government security investigation.

Salary: USD $157,487 - $174,713 / Yr.

Company

hirify.global engineers high technology solutions for defense and scientific missions with a global team of 12,000+ professionals.

What you will do

• Use AI tools to analyze, map, and automate data migration from legacy workflows and systems.
• Design modern data architectures and leverage AI for data quality detection, validation, and database optimization.
• Build automated CI/CD pipelines with AI-powered testing, Kubernetes deployments, and self-healing infrastructure.
• Automate operational tasks, integrations with enterprise systems, and generate documentation using AI.
• Implement AI-powered observability, predict failures, establish SLOs, and engineer preventative reliability measures.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field plus 5+ years experience; or Master's plus 3+ years
• Expertise with relational databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL).
• Hands-on with Kubernetes deployment and management.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions).
• AWS RDS or similar cloud-managed databases; cloud Kubernetes (EKS, AKS).
• U.S. citizenship and DoD Secret clearance required at hire.

Nice to have

• Data migration from legacy systems.
• Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible).
• Container technologies (Docker, Helm).
• Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
• Python scripting, SRE principles, DoD experience, AI opportunities.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible work environment with recognized contributions.
• Highly competitive benefits and shared sense of purpose.
• Leadership support to clear roadblocks.
• Build from scratch with cutting-edge tools and modern tech stack.
• High impact on mission-critical systems.