Senior Platform DevOps Engineer
Agile Defense1 month ago
Fort Meade, MD, USASenior
Base Salary
$155k - $175k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide embedded operations support, capability integration, and rapid prototyping for AI-enabled customer tools.
- Design, implement, and maintain infrastructure for enterprise AI applications in AWS, Microsoft Azure, on-premises, air-gapped, and classified environments.
- Develop engineering workflows for AI model and agent development, deployment, and maintenance.
- Architect and manage CI/CD pipelines for AI models, agents, and applications.
- Implement and manage Docker and Kubernetes containerization and orchestration solutions.
- Build and maintain control-plane guardrails for identity, policy enforcement, approvals, audit/logging, and observability.
- Manage AI model and agent versioning, monitoring, scaling, and lifecycle operations.
- Collaborate with AI/ML engineers and data scientists to streamline deployments and optimize resource utilization.
- Oversee AI infrastructure performance, security, and scalability and support RMF/ATO security accreditation.
- Research and implement DevOps tools and practices to improve efficiency.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical field and 10+ years of experience, or a master’s degree in a relevant technical field and 8+ years of experience.
- Advanced proficiency in DevOps principles and practices.
- Demonstrated expertise with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Proven experience architecting and managing CI/CD pipelines.
- Extensive experience with AI model lifecycle management and maintenance.
- Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
- Preferred: familiarity with AWS and Microsoft Azure.
- Preferred: familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK stack.
- Preferred: experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
- Preferred: understanding of machine learning concepts and their infrastructure implications.
Benefits
- The company emphasizes a supportive, collaborative culture built around its six core values.
- The employer is an Equal Opportunity Employer supporting protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.
About Agile Defense
Agile Defense provides IT services and cybersecurity solutions for U.S. defense and federal civilian agencies, including digital transformation, systems integration, C4ISR support, data analytics, and cloud. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, the privately held company is owned by Enlightenment Capital and operates across North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Its work centers on securing sensitive missions and modernizing government technology environments through managed services and mission-focused engineering.