Spalding, a Saalex Company is seeking a DevOps Engineer in Patuxent River, MD.  Spalding, a Saalex Company is a professional services company delivering cutting-edge solutions to the Department of Defense since 2001. Our expert-level solutions include software development, information technology, program management, financial management and business intelligence services.  Spalding, a Saalex Company offers competitive compensation, career development, flexible work schedules and excellent benefits. Position Type: Full-Time Salary: $115K-$135K (depending on experience) Work Location: This is a remote position. **On-Site Requirements: On-boarding will require 1-2 visits to Patuxent River, MD for candidates that are local to the area. Candidates out of state will be onboarded virtually. Training will be virtual and telework maximized/permitted to the greatest extent possible, however for local candidates, training/tasking may require on-site work a few hours per week. Future on-site/telework requirements/schedules may change as additional client direction is received. Essential Functions: - Develops DevOps functionality for CI/CD pipeline solutions. - Improves and maintains GitLab pipeline configurations. - Collaborates and assists software engineers with the design, configuration, implementation, and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines. - Assist with GitLab upgrades as received from the vendor (i.e. bi-weekly, monthly, etc.; requires evening support) - Onboards new applications/customers to the CI/CD environment. - Provides recommendations for technology advancement to streamline CI/CD tools and processes. - Provides technical assistance and troubleshooting to applications and systems deployed within a DevOps CI/CD pipeline. - Identifies, troubleshoots, and resolves pipeline issues. - Other duties as assigned or required.

• Manage large fleets of EC2-based VMs, disks, and networking for data-intensive workloads • Improving operational tooling around deploys, schema changes, backups, restores, and incident response • Working closely with ClickHouse engineers to turn database-level needs into infra-level solutions • Reducing operational load by identifying repeat pain points and eliminating them through code and self-healing automation • Participating in on-call and incident response, with a strong focus on making incidents rarer over time • You’ll have room to design and automate, not just respond to alerts.

• Seeking a Lead AI DevOps Engineer to oversee design and delivery of advanced AI/ML/GenAI solutions. • Combines cloud engineering and automation with hands-on leadership in deploying and integrating LLM/SLM models into enterprise applications. • Leading architecture and deployment of AI/ML/GenAI solutions (LLM/SLM at scale). • Driving automation of infrastructure, model lifecycle and inference pipelines. • Overseeing CI/CD processes for AI/ML/GenAI workloads. • Designing secure, scalable cloud infrastructures (Azure-focused). • Acting as technical advisor for stakeholders and client-facing solution design. • Mentoring engineers, promoting best practices, and fostering innovation in GenAI adoption. • Coordinating cross-functional teams to align AI engineering with business outcomes. • Ensuring cost optimization, monitoring and compliance across environments.

• Owning the end-to-end production stability and operational health of the iOS application • Serving as the primary engineer accountable for iOS production deployments and release management • Reviewing, approving, and enforcing code quality standards for all contributions from the offshore development team • Ensuring offshore-delivered features meet performance, reliability, security, and maintainability expectations • Designing and maintaining robust CI/CD pipelines for iOS builds, testing, and App Store deployments • Automating build, signing, versioning, and release workflows to reduce manual risk • Implementing and enforcing best practices for branching strategy, pull request hygiene, and release governance • Monitoring production crashes, performance metrics, and user-impacting issues using tools such as Crashlytics, Sentry, or equivalent • Leading incident response efforts for iOS-related production outages or regressions • Establishing proactive alerting and monitoring for mobile production health • Partnering with product and engineering leadership to ensure predictable, high-quality delivery cycles • Driving improvements in test coverage, regression prevention, and deployment confidence • Maintaining secure management of certificates, provisioning profiles, and sensitive mobile deployment credentials • Coordinating closely with backend, QA, and platform teams to ensure seamless end-to-end releases • Documenting operational processes and ensure repeatable, auditable release practices • Mentoring offshore and internal engineers on iOS DevOps discipline, production ownership, and engineering excellence