Platform Engineer: Secure Infra for AI/ML Platform

Analytica; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonuses

Employer-paid health care

Training funds

401k match

Job summary

Analytica in Bethesda, MD is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to automate and operate infrastructure, containers, CI/CD, and platform services for a federal data analytics and AI modernization initiative.

You will design and maintain Linux environments, implement IaC, and ensure security, observability, and disaster recovery while collaborating with engineering, data science, and security teams.

Qualifications

• Experience with platform engineering and infrastructure automation in enterprise or Federal environments.
• Hands-on Linux, containers, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, configuration management, secrets management, and artifact management.
• Experience supporting applications, databases, data pipelines, or AI/ML workloads.
• Strong knowledge of observability, monitoring, logging, networking, scalability, high availability, patching, vulnerability remediation, backup, and recovery.
• Experience with automated deployment and infrastructure provisioning.
• Strong understanding of DevOps, DevSecOps, system reliability, and secure infrastructure practices.
• Strong technical communication and cross-functional collaboration; U.S. citizenship and Top Secret eligibility; Top Secret clearance highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, automate, deploy, and operate infrastructure, container platforms, CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, observability, and platform services.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and management using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Build and maintain Linux-based environments, containerized workloads, and platform services.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, artifact repositories, secrets management, and automated deployment workflows.
• Configure and operate infrastructure supporting applications, databases, data pipelines, and AI/ML workloads.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability across infrastructure and platform services.
• Support networking, scalability, high availability, patching, vulnerability remediation, backup, and disaster recovery.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure, deployment, networking, performance, and platform reliability issues.
• Develop technical documentation covering infrastructure architecture, configurations, deployment procedures, monitoring, maintenance, and recovery processes.
• Collaborate with software engineering, data engineering, data science, AI/ML, and security teams.
• Apply security, privacy, data governance, and compliance throughout infrastructure and platform operations.

Skills

Platform engineering

Infrastructure automation

Linux and containers

CI/CD

IaC

Observability & monitoring

Security & compliance

Technical communication

Cross-functional collaboration

DevSecOps

Tools

Kubernetes

Rancher

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

PostgreSQL

Microsoft SQL Server

Job description

Analytica in Bethesda, MD is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to automate and operate infrastructure, containers, CI/CD, and platform services for a federal data analytics and AI modernization initiative.

You will design and maintain Linux environments, implement IaC, and ensure security, observability, and disaster recovery while collaborating with engineering, data science, and security teams.