Senior DevOps Engineer (AI)

Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Access to technology controlled under U.S. export-control laws restricts the position to U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and protected individuals unless required licenses are obtained.

Salary: $160,000–$180,000 annually, depending on local market, skills, and experience.

Company

hirify.global develops a weather resilience platform combining space technology, generative AI, and proprietary weather modeling for forecasting and operational decision-making.

What you will do

• Develop AI-powered tools and agentic workflows that improve development and operations efficiency.
• Build and evolve adaptive cloud infrastructure focused on security, cost efficiency, SLOs, reliability, and developer experience.
• Create self-service platforms for developers and weather scientists.
• Operate Kubernetes-based product services and support scientific workloads on HPC clusters using SLURM.
• Introduce MLOps practices for GPU-based model deployment on Kubernetes.
• Collaborate with engineers, weather scientists, and spacecraft mission operations teams while participating in production on-call rotations.

Requirements

• At least 6 years of experience as a Platform, DevOps, or SRE Engineer in containerized cloud environments.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure and infrastructure as code such as Terraform or Crossplane.
• Daily use of AI coding agents such as Claude Code or Copilot is required.
• Experience with Kubernetes CI/CD, deployment methodologies, and monitoring systems such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK Stack.
• Proficiency in Python, Node, and Go, plus strong ownership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Must meet U.S. export-control work authorization requirements.

Nice to have

• Experience with HPC and scientific computing, including SLURM, AWS ParallelCluster, or Azure CycleCloud.
• Familiarity with parallel filesystems such as Lustre or NFS.
• Experience building agentic DevOps workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a small global team with significant ownership and opportunities for growth.
• Flexible working hours and unlimited paid time off.
• Comprehensive health benefits.
• Culture centered on impact, transparency, ownership, empathy, collaboration, and continuous growth.