Senior AI/ML DevOps Engineer - Onsite MD

PingWind, Inc.; Rockville (MD); On-site; USD 115,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Federal holidays

Paid time off

Parental leave

Medical plan

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Disability insurance

Life insurance

401k with matching

Education assistance

Wellness benefits

529 plan

Legal insurance

Pet insurance

Job summary

PingWind, Inc. is seeking an AI DevOps Engineer to support AHRQ’s AI/ML strategy in Rockville, MD. The role focuses on ensuring quality and reliability of applications and infrastructure, coordinating with developers, and delivering reusable code for rapid development.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, participate in Agile ceremonies, and mentor teammates while staying current with emerging AI/ML technologies and security practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in IT, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 10 years of relevant experience.
• Artificial intelligence and machine learning engineering.
• Generative AI and large language models.
• AI solution architecture and systems engineering.
• AI/ML prototyping, testing, evaluation, performance assessment, and monitoring.
• Integration and deployment of AI/ML capabilities within approved cloud, application, and infrastructure environments.
• Responsible AI, information security, privacy, documentation, and technical risk management.
• 10 or more years building software from source, managing third party dynamic libraries, identifying build-time issues and incompatibilities.
• 10 or more years of experience with Databases.
• 10 or more years of experience with Web & Internet Technologies: HTML, XML, JSON, HTTP, CSS, SMTP, DNS, HTTP Cache Expires headers, REST services, OAuth 2, SSL Certificates
• 10 or more years of experience with installing, configuring, and maintaining local services (daemons)
• 10 or more years of experience with Operating Systems: Windows Server, Linux, command-line shell; installation of software; packages; editors; configuration; revision control of configuration
• 10 or more years of experience with Scripting Languages: RUBY, SHELL, PERL, BASH, Powershell, Python
• 10 or more years of experience with Version Control Tools such as Git, TFS, CVS, SVN
• 10 or more years of experience configuring, managing, and supporting Application/Web Servers such as Apache HTTPD, NGINX, Java containers
• 10 or more years of experience with Cloud Build and Release Engineering / DevOps, (AWS, Azure)
• 10 or more years of experience with AWS Services: EC2, S3, CloudFront, Cloud Watch, SQS, ELB, , VPC, RDS, IAM, , Cloud Formation, , Cloud trail,
• 10 or more years of experience with Linux/Unix system-level tools such as LogRotate, Cron, user/group permissions model, services
• 10 or more years of experience in Support role, working with other application and Ops teams in resolving issues/incidents

Responsibilities

• Create and support effective continuous integration pipelines.
• Implement, install, upgrade, troubleshoot, and manage the configuration and maintenance of servers and networks within the client's environment.
• Collaborate with various groups to manage all aspects of the systems, including troubleshooting, configuration, DNS, hostnames, networking, Web service client configuration, VM installation/ patches / upgrades, deployment, analysis tools, and Incident Management.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and users in requirement development activities.
• Provide application and feature development and infrastructure, working with the Software Architect to plan projects for the team.
• Coordinate with Developers and DBAs during development, enhancement, and ongoing maintenance of applications.
• Participate in Agile scrum ceremonies to facilitate development and hold team accountable to product roadmap.
• Develop reusable code to automate processes and enable rapid development.
• Write clean, efficient, and scalable code following best practices.
• Monitor infrastructure and application performance.
• Debug, troubleshoot, and optimize application performance.
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and adherence to standards.
• Implement security and data protection measures.
• Document technical specifications and development processes.
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies and industry trends.
• Provide cross training and mentorship for the team on industry standards and best practices

Skills

AI/ML engineering

Generative AI & LLMs

AI architecture

DevOps practices

Cloud platforms

Scripting: Python/Bash

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

PingWind, Inc. is seeking an AI DevOps Engineer to support AHRQ’s AI/ML strategy in Rockville, MD. The role focuses on ensuring quality and reliability of applications and infrastructure, coordinating with developers, and delivering reusable code for rapid development.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, participate in Agile ceremonies, and mentor teammates while staying current with emerging AI/ML technologies and security practices.