Devops/Infrastructure Engineer - Tysons, VA Or Rockville, MD

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer for a CONTRACT assignment with one of our premier Regulatory clients in Tysons, VA or Rockville, MD. The DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer builds and maintains cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines for a generative AI platform. This role is responsible for environment provisioning, container orchestration, CI/CD automation, and infrastructure scaling to support a microservice-based architecture. The DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer takes a broad perspective to infrastructure problems and exercises independent judgment in selecting techniques and evaluation criteria to obtain results.Responsibilities :Infrastructure & Cloud Architecture

• Provision and manage AWS cloud environments across development, staging, and production tiers
• Deploy and operate containerized services and tool servers within a microservice architecture
• Manage container orchestration with blue-green and canary deployment strategies
• Support infrastructure for platform dependencies including search engines, caching layers, and relational databases
• Exercise independent judgment in evaluating and selecting infrastructure approaches and tooling
• Build and manage infrastructure on AWS, leveraging services such as ECS, ECR, IAM, VPC, S3, and CloudWatch

DevOps & CI/CD

• Maintain and extend CI/CD pipelines using shared library patterns for service builds, testing, and deployment across a microservice fleet
• Collaborate with developers on container optimization, startup configuration, and environment management
• Identify gaps between system components and designs and deliver solutions that enable team autonomy
• Develop actionable insights from analyzing infrastructure trends and DevOps best practices, communicating recommendations to management

Monitoring, Scaling & Reliability

• Implement infrastructure monitoring, alerting, and scaling strategies for AI workloads and supporting services
• Ensure platform reliability through capacity planning, performance testing, and incident response processes
• Optimize resource utilization and cost across the cloud environment

Quality & Testing

• Implement and maintain automated infrastructure testing including smoke tests, health checks, and deployment verification
• Design and execute load testing and performance benchmarking for platform services and AI workloads
• Ensure CI/CD pipelines enforce quality gates including linting, security scanning, and test execution before deployment
• Validate infrastructure-as-code changes through automated testing and peer review processes

Mentorship & Collaboration

• Guide team members in infrastructure best practices, deployment patterns, and operational procedures
• Partner within and across teams to meet shared goals and priorities around platform stability and delivery velocity
• Champion collaborative resolution of infrastructure issues and contribute to internal process improvement initiatives

Security & Compliance

• Assist with adherence to technology policies and comply with all security controls
• Implement secure coding practices, particularly in handling personally identifiable information (PII) and sensitive regulatory data
• Participate in threat modeling and security discussions for API and infrastructure components
• Understand and apply firm security standards and best practices for regulated financial environments

SGA is a technology and resource solutions provider driven to stand out. We are a women-owned business. Our mission: to solve big IT problems with a more personal, boutique approach. Each year, we match consultants like you to more than 1,000 engagements. When we say let's work better together, we mean it. You'll join a diverse team built on these core values: customer service, employee development, and quality and integrity in everything we do. Be yourself, love what you do and find your passion at work. Please find us at https://sgainc.com/ . SGA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of Race, Color, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Religion, National Origin, Disability, Veteran Status, Age, Marital Status, Pregnancy, Genetic Information, or Other Legally Protected Status. We are committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, and our services, programs, and activities. Please visit our company EEO page to request an accommodation or assistance regarding our policy.#LI-HV1