Client: FINRAA
Job Description:
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.
Key Responsibilities:
· 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 client's security standards and best practices for regulated financial environments