DevOpsMLOps Engineer

About Niyam IT (Niyam)

Niyam was founded in 2007 by a group of consultants who shared a unique vision: a technology company steeped in orderly process yet driven by passion and innovation. Over the following decade we fine-tuned our craft and built an impressive track record of successful outcomes securing our reputation as the go-to provider of smart innovative solutions.

Today Niyam is at the forefront of the industry leading the way in crafting mission-critical technologies for Emergency Preparedness & Response Natural Resource Management Law Enforcement & Justice Health IT and Global Citizen Services.

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Niyam is seeking a DevOps/MLOps Engineer to join our team in support of our work with a federal role is responsible for designing automating and maintaining scalable infrastructure and deployment pipelines that support both traditional software development and AI/ML model ideal candidate brings a strong foundation in DevOps practices cloud-native technologies and MLOps frameworks with a focus on automation reliability and secure operations within regulated environments. This position requires close collaboration with software engineers data scientists and cybersecurity teams to deliver resilient and compliant offer competitive compensation and benefits. This full-time position will be hybrid to Ashburn VA. This position is contingent upon award of contract.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Design implement and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines to support continuous integration and delivery of both application code and AI/ML models across development testing and production environments.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning configuration management and deployment processes using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools to ensure consistency scalability and repeatability.
• Manage and optimize cloud-based environments leveraging platforms such as AWS Azure or GCP to support high availability fault tolerance and cost efficiency.
• Implement and manage containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g. Docker Kubernetes) to support scalable portable and resilient application and model deployments.
• Monitor system performance availability and reliability using centralized logging metrics and alerting tools; proactively identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and system issues.
• Ensure seamless integration and promotion of code and models across development testing staging and production environments through automated workflows and release management processes.
• Collaborate with data scientists and ML engineers to operationalize machine learning models enabling versioning reproducibility and continuous model delivery through MLOps best practices.
• Implement and enforce security best practices across the DevOps lifecycle including secure configurations vulnerability management and compliance with federal security standards.
• Support system reliability engineering (SRE) practices including incident response root cause analysis and continuous improvement of system resilience.
• Document infrastructure pipelines and operational procedures to support maintainability auditability and compliance with federal standards and accreditation requirements.
  

Qualifications and Education Requirements:

• US Citizenship with ability to obtain a Public Trust.
• Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science Engineering Information Technology or a related technical discipline from an accredited institution.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in DevOps Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) MLOps or a related field supporting enterprise or mission-critical systems.
• Hands-on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins GitLab CI/CD GitHub Actions or similar.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform CloudFormation or Ansible.
• Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Proficiency in containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g. Prometheus Grafana ELK stack or similar).
• Familiarity with supporting AI/ML workflows and implementing MLOps practices is highly preferred.
• Understanding of security best practices and experience working within regulated or federal environments (e.g. NIST FedRAMP) is preferred.
• Strong problem-solving troubleshooting and communication skills with the ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams.
  
• Local to Ashburn VA and available to work onsite as needed.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience supporting federal agencies or working in government contracting environments.
• Familiarity with model versioning and experiment tracking tools (e.g. MLflow SageMaker or similar).
• Experience with scripting or programming languages such as Python Bash or Go.
• Knowledge of microservices architecture and API-driven development.
• Experience implementing automated security scanning and compliance checks within CI/CD pipelines.
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Application Deadline:This position will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

Niyam is an Equal Opportunity (EEO) Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race color creed religion sex sexual orientation gender identity pregnancy marital status partnership status age citizenship status veteran or military status medical condition genetic information national origin disability unemployment status or any other characteristic prohibited by federal state and/or local laws.If you require a reasonable accommodation due to a disability to complete your application or if you face challenges using our online application system and need an alternative way to apply please reach out to us at 1 703.429.2450 or email

Required Experience:

Manager