AI Platform DevOps Engineer

X-energy; Rockville (MD); Hybrid; USD 184,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K plan with employer match

Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance

Life and Disability Insurance

Paid Time Off

Tuition Reimbursement/Professional Dev

Job summary

X Energy, LLC is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to design, implement, and maintain the cloud infrastructure and CI/CD systems powering our AI-native APEX platform in a hybrid Rockville/Gaithersburg setting.

You will collaborate with AI, application development, manufacturing, and regulatory teams to accelerate deployment velocity, ensure reliability, and enable rapid AI-infused capabilities across the enterprise.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field is required.
• 10+ years of relevant experience shown by the role.
• 3+ years of hands-on Docker containerization and production deployments.
• Proven GitLab CI/CD experience: runner setup, pipelines, troubleshooting.
• Strong AWS proficiency (ECS, ECR, VPC) and Terraform IaC expertise.
• Experience with AWS data services: DocumentDB, OpenSearch, Redis, Aurora Postgres, or DynamoDB.
• Proficiency with Linux/macOS CLI.
• Release engineering and deployment automation experience.
• Monitoring/observability tools such as Datadog.
• Understanding AI/ML concepts and LLM architectures; Claude Code or similar tools.
• Excellent communication and collaboration; hybrid Rockville, MD in-office presence.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain containerized applications (Docker) for production deployment.
• Develop and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines with automated testing and monitoring.
• Architect and manage AWS infrastructure (ECS, ECR, VPC, EC2) using Terraform.
• Administer and optimize AWS data services (DocumentDB, OpenSearch, Redis, Aurora Postgres, DynamoDB, S3).
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability (Datadog, CloudWatch).
• Ensure security practices across infrastructure (ACM, best practices).
• Lead release engineering, versioning, deployment automation, and rollback procedures.
• Collaborate with AI and development teams to improve performance and reliability.
• Support AI-native architecture with Claude Code/AI tools.
• Participate in on-call rotation for rapid incident response.

Skills

Docker

GitLab CI/CD

AWS

Terraform

Datadog

Security Best Practices

OpenSearch

Redis

DocumentDB

ECS

ECR

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field

Tools

GitLab

Terraform

AWS

Docker

Datadog

OpenSearch

Redis

DocumentDB

Aurora Postgres

S3

Job description

X Energy, LLC is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to design, implement, and maintain the cloud infrastructure and CI/CD systems powering our AI-native APEX platform in a hybrid Rockville/Gaithersburg setting.

You will collaborate with AI, application development, manufacturing, and regulatory teams to accelerate deployment velocity, ensure reliability, and enable rapid AI-infused capabilities across the enterprise.