Senior Infrastructure Engineer (17776) with Security Clearance

• *Federal Project - Applicant must be a United States Citizen or Permanent Residents, with the ability to obtain a Public Trust** Baer is looking for Senior Infrastructure Engineer for a 9-month Federal Project located in Woodlawn, MD Title: Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Hybrid - Woodlawn, MD (Local Required)
Duration: 9 months
Rate: All-inclusive
Alignment: W2 or C2C Overview Our client is looking for an experienced Senior Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, secure, and operate scalable multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure. The role focuses on Kubernetes platforms (AWS EKS and Azure AKS), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD and GitOps automation, cloud networking, observability, and AI/LLM application telemetry. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on cloud engineering expertise and a proven ability to deliver secure, resilient, and production-ready infrastructure.

Description

• Design, deploy, scale, and manage production Kubernetes clusters using AWS EKS and Azure AKS.
• Build secure, highly available multi-cloud architectures, including networking, IAM, storage, secrets, and compute resources.
• Develop reusable Infrastructure as Code modules using AWS CloudFormation and AWS CDK (TypeScript/Python).
• Implement CI/CD and GitOps workflows using Jenkins, ArgoCD, Helm, Docker, and Nexus.
• Manage AWS services, including ECR, RDS (PostgreSQL/Aurora), Secrets Manager, IAM, EC2, and CloudTrail.
• Configure Azure services, including APIM, Azure OpenAI/Foundry pipelines, Azure Monitor, Entra ID, and Azure VMs.
• Design cloud networking solutions using VPCs, subnets, CNI networking, ingress controllers, and load balancers.
• Implement container build pipelines with integrated security scanning and artifact lifecycle management.
• Configure and maintain observability solutions using Dynatrace, Splunk, Azure Monitor, and Log Analytics.
• Build dashboards and alerts for infrastructure health, Kubernetes performance, applications, APIs, and AI/LLM latency, traces, and errors.
• Deploy and manage LangSmith or LangFuse on Kubernetes to support AI application tracing, evaluation, and telemetry.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, deployment, networking, performance, and reliability issues while maintaining security and operational best practices.

Requirements

• 5+ years of cloud engineering experience, with strong hands-on experience designing and operating production infrastructure.
• Strong expertise in AWS EKS and Azure AKS, including cluster design, scaling, networking, security, and operations.
• Proficiency in AWS services: ECR, RDS (PostgreSQL/Aurora), Secrets Manager, IAM, EC2, and CloudTrail.
• Proficiency in Azure services: APIM, Azure OpenAI/Foundry pipelines, Azure Monitor, Entra ID, and Azure VMs.
• Strong knowledge of multi-cloud architecture, cloud networking, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, and production troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience with AWS CloudFormation and AWS CDK using TypeScript or Python.
• Strong experience with ArgoCD, Jenkins (Groovy pipelines), GitOps, and CI/CD automation.
• Experience building reusable IaC modules for networking, IAM, Kubernetes clusters, storage, secrets, and automation pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with Nexus artifact management and container image security scanning.
• Experience configuring Dynatrace, Splunk, Azure Monitor, and Log Analytics for monitoring, logging, dashboards, and alerting.
• Understanding of AI/LLM observability, including prompt tracing, model latency, distributed traces, error monitoring, and evaluation.
• Experience deploying and managing LangSmith or LangFuse in Kubernetes environments.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Bachelor’s Degree. Public Trust Security Clearance is the lowest level of additional background screening that the federal government requires for applicants of certain jobs, which includes completing a Standard Form 85 (SF85) form.

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