Senior Devops Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Senior DevOps Engineer (AI/Kubernetes): Building and scaling a high-impact weather platform using cloud-native services and HPC clusters with an accent on AI-driven operational efficiency and MLOps. Focus on designing self-service platforms, integrating GPU-based model deployments, and optimizing for security, cost, and SLOs.

Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Restricted to U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and protected individuals due to U.S. export control laws.

Salary: $160,000 – $180,000

Company

hirify.global is the world's leading Resilience Platform, combining space technology, advanced generative AI, and proprietary weather modeling to empower organizations to manage weather-related risks.

What you will do

• Develop and adopt AI-powered tools to optimize Development and Operations processes.
• Collaborate with weather scientists and engineers to optimize service performance, reliability, scale, security, and cost.
• Build self-service platforms and maintain adaptive cloud infrastructure to support business growth.
• Support scientific computing workloads on HPC clusters (SLURM) alongside Kubernetes platforms.
• Integrate MLOps practices for GPU-based model deployment on Kubernetes.
• Maintain production availability by participating in on-call shifts.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience as a Platform/DevOps/SRE Engineer in containerized cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or Crossplane.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and deployment methodologies in Kubernetes.
• Experience implementing monitoring systems such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK Stack.
• Proficiency with scripting languages including Python, Node.js, and Go.
• Must be a U.S. citizen, permanent resident, or protected individual as required by U.S. export control laws.

Nice to have

• Experience with HPC/scientific computing (e.g., Slurm, AWS ParallelCluster, Azure CycleCloud).
• Familiarity with parallel filesystems like Lustre or NFS.
• Experience building agentic DevOps workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits and unlimited paid time off.
• Flexible hours and a culture that values impact over hours worked.
• Opportunity to work with a small global team using cutting-edge space and AI technology.
• Defined career growth paths emphasizing expertise and professional development.