AI Platform Engineer — Cloud & CI/CD Expert

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

Benefits offered by this job

401K with employer match

Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance

Paid Time Off

Tuition Reimbursement/Professional Dev

Job summary

X Energy, LLC is hiring a DevOps Engineer to design, implement, and maintain the cloud infrastructure and CI/CD systems powering the AI-native APEX platform. You will collaborate with AI and application teams to accelerate deployment velocity, reliability, and rapid AI-enabled delivery across engineering, manufacturing, regulatory, and deployment processes.

The role emphasizes containerization, AWS, Terraform, Datadog, and Claude Code, with on-call duties and a hybrid Rockville presence Tue–Thu.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering or related field.
• 10+ years of relevant experience in DevOps or cloud infrastructure.
• 3+ years building Docker-based production apps and pipelines.
• Proven GitLab CI/CD administration and pipeline tuning.
• Strong AWS experience (ECS, ECR, VPC, Terraform).
• Experience with DocumentDB, OpenSearch, Redis, Aurora Postgres, DynamoDB.
• Proficiency with Linux/macOS CLI; release engineering and automation.
• Familiarity with Datadog, CloudWatch for observability.
• Knowledge of AI/ML concepts and Claude Code tools.
• Excellent communication and independent work capability.
• Hybrid work readiness for Rockville, MD office Tue–Thu.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain containerized apps for production deployment.
• Develop and optimize GitLab CI/CD pipelines and tests.
• Architect and manage AWS infrastructure with Terraform (ECS, ECR, VPC, EC2).
• Administer AWS data services: DocumentDB, OpenSearch, Redis, DynamoDB, Aurora.
• Implement monitoring with Datadog and CloudWatch; ensure observability.
• Oversee security best practices and ACM certificate management.
• Lead release engineering, versioning, deployment automation, rollbacks.
• Collaborate with teams to optimize performance and diagnose issues.
• Leverage Claude Code and AI tools to accelerate tasks.
• Apply AI/LLM knowledge to support AI-native architecture.
• Participate in on-call rotations and maintain professional conduct.

Skills

Docker containerization

GitLab CI/CD

AWS infrastructure

Terraform

ECS / ECR / VPC

Linux/macOS CLI

Release engineering

Datadog monitoring

Claude Code / AI tools

AI/ML concepts

Problem solving

Communication skills

Education

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

Tools

Docker

GitLab

Terraform

AWS (ECS, ECR, VPC)

DocumentDB

OpenSearch

Redis

Aurora Postgres

DynamoDB

S3

Datadog

CloudWatch

Claude Code

Job description

X Energy, LLC is hiring a DevOps Engineer to design, implement, and maintain the cloud infrastructure and CI/CD systems powering the AI-native APEX platform. You will collaborate with AI and application teams to accelerate deployment velocity, reliability, and rapid AI-enabled delivery across engineering, manufacturing, regulatory, and deployment processes.

The role emphasizes containerization, AWS, Terraform, Datadog, and Claude Code, with on-call duties and a hybrid Rockville presence Tue–Thu.