AI Infrastructure & Security Engineer

Who we are:

HRCI®, headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, is the premier credentialing and learning organization for the human resources profession. For over 50 years, we have set the global standard for HR expertise and excellence through our commitment to the development and advancement of businesspeople in the people business. HRCI develops and offers world-class learning, as well as the administration of eight global certifications and is dedicated to helping professionals achieve new competencies that drive business results. We are a dynamic non-profit with a hard-working, committed team. Want to know more about what life is like at HRCI? Find out more about us at https://www.hrci.org/about-hrci/life-at-hrci.

Why HRCI:

• We are a Top Workplace, three years running (2024-2026)!
• Be part of a dynamic and passionate team of professionals focused on driving the organization forward.
• Have the autonomy to grow your career and opportunities for professional development.
• Highly rewarding work in a fun, team-oriented culture.
• Great benefits (health insurance, generous time off, 401(k) match, parental leave) and a flexible working environment.

Position Overview:

This role owns the infrastructure that lets our engineers ship faster with Claude Code, builds the environments that let non-technical teams automate their own work with Cowork, and keeps our digital agents governed and running. Security and cloud infrastructure are core to the job, and the expectation is that Claude accelerates that work enough to free capacity for everything else described here.

Automation & Efficiency

• 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

Infrastructure & Cloud

• 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

Security

• 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

The Skills You Need to Succeed:

• 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

Salary range: $110,000 - 140,000/year; Compensation is based on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, skills, and internal equity.