# Computer Programmer

**Company:** [Axle](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/axle)
**Location:** Rockville, MD
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $75k – $80k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Linux, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP, Azure, Python, Bash, CI/CD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Prometheus, Grafana
**Posted:** 2026-04-08

> Builds and optimizes scalable cloud/hybrid platforms using DevOps/SRE practices, focusing on automation, CI/CD, observability, and AI/ML workloads. Requires 6+ years Linux, 4+ years IaC on AWS/GCP/Azure, and strong scripting skills.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design and operate scalable, resilient, and secure infrastructure platforms across cloud and hybrid environments
- Champion DevOps and SRE practices including Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, observability, and reliability engineering
- Build developer-friendly platforms ("golden paths") that simplify deployments, reduce friction, and improve velocity
- Enable and optimize infrastructure for AI/ML workloads, including data pipelines and storage systems, model training and inference environments, GPU-enabled and high-performance compute workloads
- Develop and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for applications, data, and ML workflows
- Implement observability frameworks (metrics, logs, traces) to ensure system health and performance
- Define and manage SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets to drive reliability improvements
- Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems with a focus on continuous improvement
- Automate provisioning, configuration, patching, and environment lifecycle management
- Build and manage containerized and orchestrated platforms (**Docker**, **Kubernetes**)
- Support cloud migration, modernization, and platform standardization initiatives
- Ensure systems meet security, compliance, backup, and disaster recovery requirements
- Evangelize DevOps practices to development community on AI driven tool integrations for code standards, qualitative tools, security tools in shift-left automation
- Mentor engineers and promote best practices in DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering
- Stay abreast of new technologies including AIOps, MLOps, cloud computing & deployment, site reliability engineering, infrastructure automation, security best practices, data engineering

## Requirements
- 6+ years of hands-on **Linux** experience (Ubuntu/CentOS/Red Hat), containers, dependency management and administration support
- 4+ years automating **Infrastructure-as-Code** (**IaC**) deployments to **AWS**, **GCP**, or **Azure**
- 4+ years in **DevOps** / **SRE** roles supporting production systems
- 4+ years with **CI/CD** and automation tools such as **Terraform**, **Ansible**, **Chef**, **Puppet**, **Jenkins**, **GitHub Actions**
- Strong scripting skills (**Python**, **Bash**, **PowerShell**)
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools (**Prometheus**, **Grafana**, **ELK**, or cloud-native equivalents)
- Proficient using vibe coding and coding assistants to develop scripts, tools and applications for DevOps and SRE use cases
- Proficiency to debug or troubleshoot and/or deploying **SQL**/**NoSQL** databases, object storage, web servers, open-source programming stack for **Node.js**, **R**, **Python**, **.NET Core**, **Java** (desired but not mandatory)
- Willing to learn new technologies
- **Cloud certifications** preferred
- Certifications in **Docker**, **Kubernetes**, **Linux** or Networking (**CCNA**/**CCNP**) preferred but optional

## Compensation
- Salary range: $75,000—$80,000 USD
- 100% Medical, Dental & Vision Coverage for Employees
- Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
- 401K match up to 5%
- Educational Benefits for Career Growth
- Employee Referral Bonus
- Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare FSA, Parking PRK, Dependent Care DCAP, Transportation TRN)

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