Computer Programmer

Axle; Rockville (MD); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

401K match up to 5%

Educational Benefits for Career Growth

Employee Referral Bonus

Job summary

A bioscience and IT firm located in Rockville, Maryland is seeking a DevOps Engineer with extensive experience in Linux and cloud platforms. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing scalable infrastructure, leading DevOps practices, and optimizing AI/ML workloads. Applicants should have strong coding skills along with experience in automation and observability tools. This role offers competitive benefits including a 401K match and educational perks.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of hands-on Linux experience, particularly with Ubuntu, CentOS, and Red Hat.
• 4+ years of automating Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) deployments on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Proficient in coding and debugging SQL and NoSQL databases.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate scalable infrastructure across cloud environments.
• Champion DevOps practices including CI/CD and reliability engineering.
• Develop and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Linux experience

DevOps / SRE experience

Scripting skills

Automation tools experience

Monitoring and observability tools

Education

Cloud certifications

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Ansible

Jenkins

Job description

Axle is a bioscience and information technology company that offers advancements in translational research, biomedical informatics, and data science applications to research centers and healthcare organizations nationally and abroad. With experts in biomedical science, software engineering, and program management, we focus on developing and applying research tools and techniques to empower decision‑making and accelerate research discoveries. We work with some of the top research organizations and facilities in the country including multiple institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Benefits We Offer

• Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
• 401K match up to 5%
• Educational Benefits for Career Growth
• Employee Referral Bonus
• Flexible Spending Accounts:
  • Healthcare (FSA)
  • Parking Reimbursement Account (PRK)
  • Dependent Care Assistant Program (DCAP)
  • Transportation Reimbursement Account (TRN)

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, and 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 SLOs, 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 the 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, or 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, and 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 code assistants to develop scripts, tools and applications for the DevOps and SRE use cases.

Must have proficiency in debugging or troubleshooting and/or deploying SQL and/or NoSQL databases, object storage, web servers, and open‑source programming stacks 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 are preferred. Certifications in Docker, Kubernetes, Linux or Networking (CCNA, CCNP or similar) are preferred but optional.

Disclaimer

The above description is meant to illustrate the general nature of work and level of effort being performed by individuals assigned to this position or job description. This is not restricted as a complete list of all skills, responsibilities, duties, and/or assignments required. Individuals may be required to perform duties outside of their position, job description or responsibilities as needed.

Equal Employment Opportunity

The diversity of Axle’s employees is a tremendous asset. We are firmly committed to providing equal opportunity in all aspects of employment and will not tolerate any illegal discrimination or harassment based on age, race, gender, religion, national origin, disability, marital status, covered veteran status, sexual orientation, status with respect to public assistance, and other characteristics protected under state, federal, or local law and to deter those who aid, abet, or induce discrimination or coerce others to discriminate.