Title: DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer 
Location: Rockville, MD or McLean, VA (Hybrid   3 days onsite with 2 days remote) 
Duration: 6 Months with possible extension 
Interview process: Coding Assessment, Phone, Onsite In-Person 
Job Summary: 
The DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for building and maintaining cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines for a modern, AI-enabled platform. This role focuses on environment provisioning, container orchestration, CI/CD automation, and scalable infrastructure to support microservices-based applications. The engineer applies strong judgment to evaluate and implement effective infrastructure solutions.
 
Key Responsibilities 
Infrastructure & Cloud Architecture 
Provision and manage cloud environments across development, staging, and production

Deploy and operate containerized services within a microservices architecture

Manage container orchestration, including blue-green and canary deployment strategies

Support infrastructure for platform dependencies such as search services, caching layers, and databases

Evaluate and implement infrastructure tooling and architectural approaches

Build and manage cloud infrastructure using services such as compute, container registries, identity/access management, networking, storage, and monitoring tools
 
DevOps & CI/CD 
Design, maintain, and enhance CI/CD pipelines for building, testing, and deploying services across environments

Collaborate with engineering teams on container optimization, configuration, and environment management

Identify gaps across systems and implement solutions that improve scalability and team autonomy

Analyze infrastructure trends and recommend improvements based on best practices
 
Monitoring, Scaling & Reliability 
Implement monitoring, alerting, and auto-scaling strategies for platform services and workloads

Ensure system reliability through capacity planning, performance testing, and incident response

Optimize infrastructure performance and cost efficiency
 
Quality & Testing 
Develop and maintain automated infrastructure testing (smoke tests, health checks, deployment validation)

Conduct load testing and performance benchmarking

Enforce quality gates in CI/CD pipelines (testing, linting, security scanning)

Validate infrastructure-as-code changes through automation and peer review
 
Mentorship & Collaboration 
Provide guidance on infrastructure best practices and deployment strategies

Partner with cross-functional teams to support platform stability and delivery goals

Contribute to process improvements and operational excellence initiatives
 
Security & Compliance 
Ensure adherence to security policies and best practices

Implement secure development and infrastructure practices, particularly for sensitive data

Participate in threat modeling and security reviews for systems and APIs

Support compliance requirements in regulated or security-conscious environments