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AI Platform & DevSecOps Engineer
Sim*** · Washington, DC, United States
Washington, DC, United StatesExp: 8+ yrsRemote
Remuneration
Not specified
Location
Washington, DC, United States
Visa sponsorship
Sponsors visa
Job summary
The AI Platform & DevSecOps Engineer builds and operates secure, multi-environment AWS platforms and delivery pipelines for AI workloads in federal and regulated settings. Responsibilities include managing infrastructure with Terraform, enforcing CI/CD controls, coordinating releases, securing Amazon Bedrock services, and automating compliance evidence and observability. The role also supports AWS-native client platforms and administers AI development tooling such as Claude Code.
Benefits
Health, dental, and vision insuranceProfessional development and trainingPerformance-based incentives401(k) retirement savings planWork-from-home stipendUnlimited paid time offPaid holidaysFlexible work scheduleProfessional development budget for training and certifications
Qualifications
- At least 8 years of professional experience in DevOps, platform, cloud, or site-reliability engineering, including at least 4 years on AWS and 2 years supporting generative AI or machine-learning workloads.
- Demonstrated experience delivering Terraform infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines for multi-environment applications.
- Experience supporting a federal or regulated system through an authorization process such as FedRAMP, RMF/ATO, or CJIS compliance.
- Expert-level Terraform and AWS skills, including multi-account organization, IAM, VPC networking, KMS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and Security Hub.
- Hands-on experience securing and operating Amazon Bedrock and related AI services, including guardrails, model access, and usage and cost controls.
- Strong CI/CD skills with GitHub Actions or an equivalent, including automated testing, container builds, and artifact and secrets management.
- Working knowledge of Python or TypeScript for automation, pipeline steps, and platform tooling.
- Familiarity with Claude Code, agentic development tooling, and administration of AI accounts and shared team configuration.
- U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
- Required AWS and Claude certifications must be earned within 12 months of hire.
- DC Metro-area residence is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain DEV, TST, STG, and PRD AWS environments using Terraform and reusable infrastructure modules.
- Build and operate CI/CD pipelines that enforce SDLC gates, including automated tests, coverage thresholds, security scans, and promotion approvals.
- Coordinate releases across environments and maintain release notes and rollback procedures.
- Secure AWS AI workloads using Amazon Bedrock guardrails, model access controls, least-privilege IAM, encryption, logging, and network isolation.
- Generate and maintain evidence for FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, and CJIS compliance and support authorization and continuous-monitoring processes.
- Implement AI application observability, including tracing, evaluation metrics, cost monitoring, and alerting.
- Administer Claude Code accounts and configuration, shared agent and skill repositories, and Jira, GitHub, and pipeline integrations.
- Provide AWS platform engineering for client engagements, including landing zones, account structures, and well-architected reviews.
- Automate lifecycle tasks between requirements and end-to-end testing.
- Document platforms, runbooks, and standards, and coach engineers on their use.
Skills
AWSAWS KMSCloudWatchGitHubGitHub ActionsIAMJiraKubernetesPythonTerraformTypeScriptDocker
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – AssociateAWS Certified DevOps Engineer – ProfessionalClaude Certified Developer – Foundations (CCDV-F)Claude Certified Associate – Foundations (CCAO-F)AWS Certified Security – SpecialtyHashiCorp Certified: Terraform AssociateCompTIA Security+CISSPCertified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Degrees
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or a
Work schedule
Flexible work schedule
Travel
Occasional travel to client sites and company events
Industry
Federal GovernmentRegulated systems
Security clearance
Public Trust
Relocation
No