Programmer Jobs in Silver Spring, MD (NOW HIRING)

Axle is a bioscience and information technology company that offers advancements in translational research, biomedical informatics, and data science applications to research centers and healthcare organizations nationally and abroad. With experts in biomedical science, software engineering, and program management, we focus on developing and applying research tools and techniques to empower decision-making and accelerate research discoveries. We work with some of the top research organizations and facilities in the country including multiple institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Benefits We Offer:

• 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 Reimbursement Account (PRK)
  • Dependent Care Assistant Program (DCAP)
  • Transportation Reimbursement Account (TRN)

Axle is seeking a Computer Programmer to build and optimize scalable cloud and hybrid platforms using DevOps and SRE practices. This role focuses on automation, CI/CD, and supporting modern workloads like AI/ML, with an emphasis on reliability and efficiency.

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 the AI driven tool integrations for  code standards, qualitative tools, security tools in the shift-left automation

• Mentor engineers and promote best practices in DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering

• Stay abreast of new technologies in your areas but not limited to AIOps, MLOps, cloud computing & deployment, site reliability engineering, infrastructure automation, security best practices, data engineering etc. 

Requirements:

• Must have 6+ years of Hands-on Linux experience that includes specific technical experience with Ubuntu/CentOS/Red Hat operating systems, containers, dependency management and administration support

• Must have 4+ years of experience automating Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) deployments to one of the following cloud platforms Amazon AWS, Google GCP and Microsoft Azure

• Must have 4+ years in DevOps / SRE roles supporting production systems

• Must have 4+ years with CI/CD and automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Jenkins, GitHub Actions

• Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell or similar)

• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or cloud-native equivalents)

• Must be proficient using vibe coding and coding assistants to develop scripts, tools and applications for the DevOps and SRE use cases

• Must have proficiency to debug or troubleshoot and/or deploying SQL and/or NoSQL databases, object storage, web servers, open-source programming stack for Node.JS, R, Python, .NET Core, Java is desired but not mandatory

• Must be willing to learn new technologies, adopt and adapt to emerging technologies or needs from a project to a project

• Cloud certifications is preferred 

• Certifications in Docker, Kubernetes, Linux or Networking (CCNA or CCNP or similar) is preferred but optional

Disclaimer: The above description is meant to illustrate the general nature of work and level of effort being performed by individuals assigned to this position or job description. This is not restricted as a complete list of all skills, responsibilities, duties, and/or assignments required. Individuals may be required to perform duties outside of their position, job description or responsibilities as needed.

The diversity of Axle's employees is a tremendous asset. We are firmly committed to providing equal opportunity in all aspects of employment and will not tolerate any illegal discrimination or harassment based on age, race, gender, religion, national origin, disability, marital status, covered veteran status, sexual orientation, status with respect to public assistance, and other characteristics protected under state, federal, or local law and to deter those who aid, abet, or induce discrimination or coerce others to discriminate.

Accessibility: If you need an accommodation as part of the employment process please contact: careers@axleinfo.com

This role has a market-competitive salary with an anticipated base compensation range listed below. Actual salaries will vary depending on a candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, and location.

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