Computer Programmer
Axle · Rockville, MD · 1 wk ago
Engineering$75k–$80k/yrFull-time
Responsibilities
- Design and operate scalable, resilient, and secure infrastructure platforms across cloud and hybrid environments
- Champion DevOps and SRE practices including Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, observability, and reliability engineering
- Build developer-friendly platforms (“golden paths”) that simplify deployments, reduce friction, and improve velocity
- Enable and optimize infrastructure for AI/ML workloads, including:
- Data pipelines and storage systems
- Model training and inference environments
- GPU-enabled and high-performance compute workloads
- Develop and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for applications, data, and ML workflows
- Implement observability frameworks (metrics, logs, traces) to ensure system health and performance
- Define and manage Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and error budgets to drive reliability improvements
- Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems with a focus on continuous improvement
- Automate provisioning, configuration, patching, and environment lifecycle management
- Build and manage containerized and orchestrated platforms (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Support cloud migration, modernization, and platform standardization initiatives
- Ensure systems meet security, compliance, backup, and disaster recovery requirements
- Evangelize DevOps practices to development community on the AI driven tool integrations for code standards, qualitative tools, security tools in the shift-left automation
- Mentor engineers and promote best practices in DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering
- Stay abreast of new technologies in your areas but not limited to AIOps, MLOps, cloud computing & deployment, site reliability engineering, infrastructure automation, security best practices, data engineering etc.
Requirements
- Must have 6+ years of hands-on Linux experience that includes specific technical experience with Ubuntu/CentOS/Red Hat operating systems, containers, dependency management and administration support
- Must have 4+ years of experience automating Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) deployments to one of the following cloud platforms Amazon AWS, Google GCP and Microsoft Azure
- Must have 4+ years in DevOps / SRE roles supporting production systems
- Must have 4+ years with CI/CD and automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Jenkins, GitHub Actions
- Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell or similar)
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or cloud-native equivalents)
- Must be proficient using vibe coding and coding assistants to develop scripts, tools and applications for the DevOps and SRE use cases
- Must have proficiency to debug or troubleshoot and/or deploying SQL and/or NoSQL databases, object storage, web servers, open-source programming stack for Node.JS, R, Python, .NET Core, Java is desired but not mandatory
- Must be willing to learn new technologies, adopt and adapt to emerging technologies or needs from a project to a project
- Cloud certifications is preferred
- Certifications in Docker, Kubernetes, Linux or Networking (CCNA or CCNP or similar) is preferred but optional