DevOps & CI/CD Engineer for Secure AI Delivery

Quantum Research International Inc

Huntsville (AL)

On-site

USD 110,000 - 170,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

Quantum Research International, Inc. seeks an Intermediate DevOps/CI-CD Engineer to support secure Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) applications using large language models.

The role focuses on building reliable delivery pipelines, automating deployment, and maintaining infrastructure for AI-enabled services in secure, often air‑gapped environments. The position requires strong software engineering fundamentals, hands-on CI/CD expertise, and collaboration with software developers, AI/ML

Qualifications

  • Active Top Secret clearance preferred or the ability to obtain TS/SCI.
  • 3+ years of professional experience in software development, DevOps, systems engineering, or related technical field.
  • Hands-on experience designing or maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins.
  • Experience with source-control workflows, branching strategies, pull/merge requests, release management, and automated quality gates.
  • Experience deploying and supporting containerized applications using Docker or a comparable container platform.
  • Proficiency in Python, PowerShell, Bash, or Go.
  • Working knowledge of .NET/C#, Go, or Python development.
  • Experience supporting RESTful APIs, microservices, distributed applications, or backend services.
  • Familiarity with Terraform, Ansible, Helm, or similar IaC/configuration-management tools.
  • Understanding of Linux environments, networking fundamentals, certificates, secrets management, and configuration.
  • Experience integrating automated testing and security scanning into delivery pipelines.
  • Ability to diagnose build failures and deployment issues across the delivery lifecycle.
  • Understanding of secure software development and supply-chain practices.
  • Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application services, RAG components, AI models, and supporting infrastructure.
  • Automate software builds, testing, security scanning, packaging, deployment, rollback, and release management.
  • Support deployment and operation of .NET/C#, Go, and Python services across development, test, and production environments.
  • Build and maintain containerized application environments using Docker, Kubernetes, or comparable platforms.
  • Develop infrastructure-as-code and configuration-management solutions to create repeatable, auditable environments.
  • Manage build artifacts, container images, application dependencies, secrets, and environment-specific configuration.
  • Integrate automated unit, integration, performance, and security testing into delivery pipelines.
  • Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational dashboards for AI-assisted applications and their supporting services.
  • Troubleshoot build, deployment, infrastructure, networking, performance, and availability issues across the delivery lifecycle.
  • Improve system reliability, scalability, recoverability, and deployment consistency.
  • Support the secure delivery of locally hosted or self-hosted LLMs, embedding models, vector databases, and RAG services.
  • Collaborate with software developers, AI/ML engineers, cybersecurity personnel, system administrators, and government stakeholders.
  • Produce and maintain technical documentation, deployment procedures, runbooks, and system configuration records.
  • Participate in code reviews, release planning, and Agile development activities.
  • Ensure delivery processes and environments comply with government security and configuration-management requirements.

Skills

Security clearance
CI/CD
Python
PowerShell
Bash
Go
C#
REST APIs
Linux
Agile / SDLC
Cross-functional collaboration

Education

BS degree in software engineering or Computer Science

Tools

GitLab CI/CD
GitHub Actions
Azure DevOps
Jenkins
Docker
Kubernetes
Terraform
Ansible
Helm

Job description

Quantum Research International, Inc. seeks an Intermediate DevOps/CI-CD Engineer to support secure Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) applications using large language models.

The role focuses on building reliable delivery pipelines, automating deployment, and maintaining infrastructure for AI-enabled services in secure, often air‑gapped environments. The position requires strong software engineering fundamentals, hands-on CI/CD expertise, and collaboration with software developers, AI/ML

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