AI Infrastructure & Security Engineer

HRCI is the premier credentialing and learning organization for the human resources profession, headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia. They are seeking an AI Infrastructure & Security Engineer to manage infrastructure and security for their AI systems, optimize cloud services, and ensure efficient deployment processes.

Responsibilities:

• Configure our Claude account to balance benefits and usage costs – we want to optimize net benefits of working with Claude
• Scaffold and maintain Claude Code environments for engineering
• Own the governance layer for AI agents operating within HRCI systems
• Set up Cowork environments so go-to-market, operations, finance, and other non-technical teams can automate workflows without routing every request through engineering
• Maintain and extend CI/CD pipelines for code deployment
• Improve deployment processes to reduce errors and increase velocity
• Maintain development, staging, and production environments
• Maintain and organize code repository documents including provisioning npm and NuGet repos
• Configure, monitor, and maintain Azure services and virtual machines
• Build and manage containerized applications with Azure Container Apps
• Migrate workloads from VMs to containers
• Troubleshoot system performance issues and implement reliability improvements
• Execute all of the above through control panels or scripts
• Research and recommend new Azure services to improve reliability and reduce costs
• Learn and maintain working knowledge of our core SaaS platforms (eCommerce, CRM, Office 365, collaboration tools, contact center, etc.)
• Arrange users, settings and permissions across platforms
• Harness Claude across our environments to identify and fix security vulnerabilities
• Monitor and respond to the threat landscape for coding agent-enabled attack patterns: prompt injection, supply chain attacks through AI-generated code, and adversarial use of the same agentic tools our engineers use
• Maintain endpoint protection, alerts and patch management
• Manage our organization’s security configurations, automated pen testing platform and security training software

Requirements:

• Demonstrated experience with AI coding agents in production environments
• 3+ years software engineering either front end or back end
• 3+ years hands-on experience with Azure (VMs, App Services, networking, storage, identity)
• 3+ years experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• 3+ years experience with Azure DevOps and Azure Repos
• 3+ years experience with GitHub
• 3+ years experience with containerization
• Ability to use Claude Code in a real codebase, including CLAUDE.md and skills authoring and MCP configuration — or comparable work with another agentic coding tool and a clear ability to transfer that experience
• Understanding how agentic coding tools navigate codebases: file traversal and context windows
• Security instincts specific to AI: understands the risk surface of giving agents tool access, recognizes prompt injection as an attack vector, and thinks about what adversaries can do with coding agents
• Can communicate clearly with both engineers and non-technical teams — this role works across the full company
• Strong scripting in Python
• Knows Azure (VMs, App Services, storage, identity, containers, DevOps CI/CD pipelines)
• Solid networking fundamentals: DNS, TCP/IP, firewalls, VPNs
• Can manage Windows Server and Linux systems
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field—or equivalent practical experience