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IT Program Manager

(ID: 2025-0917)

Axle Informatics 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 around the globe. 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 premier research organizations and facilities including multiple institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other public and private organizations. 

 

Axle is currently hiring a dynamic, driven, and solution oriented IT Program Manager in Rockville, MD.

 

Benefits We Offer:

  • 100% Medical, Dental & Vision Coverage for Employees
  • Educational Benefits for Career Growth
  • Paid Time Off (Including Holidays)
  • Employee Referral Bonus
  • 401K Matching
  • Flexible Spending Accounts:
    • Healthcare (FSA)
    • Parking Reimbursement Account (PRK)
    • Dependent Care Assistant Program (DCAP)
    • Transportation Reimbursement Account (TRN)

 

Overview

We are seeking a skilled IT Program Manager to lead complex programs, ensuring on-time delivery, contract compliance, and strong client relationships. This role combines program leadership with expertise in federal contracting and authorization solutions to drive mission success. 

 

Responsibilities

  • Manage the full lifecycle of government-sponsored programs, ensuring on-time, within-budget delivery and adherence to scope and deliverables.
  • Develop project plans, track milestones, and coordinate cross-functional teams to deliver scientific, technical, and administrative support services.
  • Monitor compliance with federal contract requirements, policies, and reporting standards.
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for government clients, building and maintaining strong client relationships by anticipating needs, addressing concerns, and providing strategic guidance.
  • Translate client objectives into actionable plans and ensure solutions align with mission outcomes.
  • Support growth by identifying new opportunities within existing contracts and accounts.
  • Lead the integration and management of authorization solutions, with a focus on overseeing Software-as-a-Service system delivery and support for secure, compliant access across users, systems, and datasets.
  • Partner with technical staff to evaluate, recommend, and implement authorization and identity management frameworks, including software enhancements and related access control systems.
  • Ensure adherence to government security and privacy requirements, supporting audits, compliance activities, and reporting specific to authorization platforms.
  • Prepare progress reports, briefings, and presentations for federal sponsors and internal leadership.
  • Track program performance metrics and recommend improvements for efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Manage budgets, staffing plans, and subcontractor performance as needed.

 

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in business administration, public administration, computer science, or related field.
  • 5+ years of program management or account management experience with federal government clients.
  • Demonstrated success leading multi-disciplinary teams in a government contracting environment.
  • Experience with NIH institutes strongly preferred.
  • Strong knowledge of authorization and identity management solutions, including demonstrated experience managing government access control frameworks.
  • Proven track record in federal contract management and client relationship management.
  • Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
  • PMP, CSM, or similar certifications desirable.

 

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 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

Disclaimer: The above is meant to illustrate the general nature of work and level of effort being performed by individual’s assigned to this position or job. 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 or responsibilities as needed.

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.

#IND

Salary Range
$140,000—$160,000 USD

IT Operations Technical Lead

(ID: 2025-0916)

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).

 

Axle is seeking a IT Operations Technical Lead to join our vibrant team at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) supporting the National Center for Advancing Translation Sciences (NCATS) located in Rockville, MD.

 

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)

 

Overview

In this role, you will have the opportunity to design, implement, secure and enhance our on-prem and cloud infrastructure and systems. Your experience with IT Operations and Cloud Application support will be used to create roadmaps for operational efficiency, and maintenance. Working alongside other operations teams and development engineering teams, you will collaborate with colleagues and client team members supporting network and architecture assessment, Authorization to Operate (ATO), threat modeling, vulnerability assessment, and security operations. 

 

Responsibilities

  • Oversee On-Prem & Cloud daily technical operations
  • Apply appropriate security measures to safeguard government systems by implementing industry-standard best practices adequately and NIH-mandated
  • Assume a technical lead role in the administration and management of infrastructure solutions that are deployed on-prem and in all major cloud service provides in accordance with Security Guidelines
  • Installing, configuring, maintaining, and supporting applications and servers
  • Performing operating system and software installation, testing, patching and upgrades
  • Monitoring the Heath of internal environment and connections
  • Research new technologies that are applicable to current projects and make recommendations to improve performance, optimize operations, and reduce costs
  • Architecting and leading the migration of legacy On-Prem solution migrations to Cloud Environments with High Performance and reliability
  • Assist in managing technology in projects and providing technical guidance or solutions for task completion
  • Participate in technical discussions or review as a technical consultant for solutions feasibility studies (technical alternatives, best packages, supporting architecture best practices, technical risks, breakdown into components, estimations)
  • Continuously collaborate with the Software Development teams in addressing Operational technical debt
  • Conduct periodic security checks/audits in to ensure Environment compliance with Government guidance and directives
  • Develop and guide team members in enhancing their technical capabilities and increasing productivity

 

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of IT Operations experience
  • 5+ years of supporting Cloud Services (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or similar field
  • Experience working with and securing cloud services such as AWS EC2, EKS, GuardDuty, ELB, ECS, IAM, S3, RDS, CloudTrail, CloudFront, and AWS Config
  • Experience assessing the security of the cloud and Kubernetes environments
  • Knowledge of ITSM tools such as ServiceNow or Remedy
  • Demonstrated knowledge preparing guidance related to Cybersecurity best practices within the framework of NIST publications, ISO 2700 Series, CIS, OWASP, RMF, and the various control families within
  • Experience configuring and maintaining monitoring tools, SIEM’s, IDSs, IPS, etc.
  • Experience with a programming or scripting language such as Ruby, Go, or Python
  • Knowledgeable on zero trust architecture concepts such as Google BeyondCorp

 

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.

#IND

Salary Range
$140,000—$160,000 USD

High-Performance Computing (HPC) Systems Engineer

(ID: 2025-0683)

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).

 

Axle is seeking a High-Performance Computing (HPC) Systems Engineer to join our vibrant team at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) supporting the The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) located in Rockville, MD.

 

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)

 

Overview: 

The High-Performance Computing (HPC) Systems Engineer will support the Scientific Computing and Informatics (SCI) team at The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS). This role will focus on the design, optimization, security, and maintenance of HPC and cloud-based infrastructures that enable cutting-edge biomedical research through scalable, secure, and high-performing computing environments. 

 

 

Responsibilities: 

  • Design, configure, and maintain scalable HPC clusters for optimal performance. 

  • Support documentation and ATO (Authority to Operate) processes. 

  • Ensure infrastructure design compliance with federal security standards and best practices. 

  • Implement monitoring tools such as XDMoD for transparency and user reporting. 

  • Integrate platforms such as JupyterHub and job schedulers (e.g., Slurm) for improved interactivity. 

  • Develop and manage AWS-based infrastructure using Terraform, Packer, and Ansible. 

  • Automate deployment workflows to streamline provisioning, updates, and scaling. 

  • Manage systems involved in AWS Secure Cloud Bridging (SCB) and STRIDES initiatives. 

  • Implement CIS benchmark-aligned system hardening using OpenSCAP. 

  • Administer optimized compute images (CPU/GPU) for scientific workflows. 

  • Leverage tools such as OpenHPC, Warewulf, and Ansible for environment management. 

  • Lead and coordinate quarterly patch cycles. 

  • Partner with researchers and external stakeholders on critical projects. 

  • Facilitate solution transitions to other NIH centers and collaborators. 

  • Contribute to publications and team objectives through deep technical engagement. 

 

 

Qualifications: 

  • Federal ATO processes experience required 

  • HPC architecture and performance optimization is required 

  • Scientific software development and deployment 

  • High-speed network and parallel file system architecture 

  • Troubleshooting, diagnostics, and technical support 

  • Strong communication and multitasking skills 

  • Programming & Scripting:  

  • Languages – Pascal, BASIC, Delphi, Visual Basic, C, C++ 

  • Scripting – Bash, Perl, Python, Ruby, PEAR, Tcl 

  • Systems & Network Administration:  

  • Linux – RHEL/CentOS, SUSE, Debian, Ubuntu 

  • Windows – 95–10; NT–Server 2016 

  • Networking – Active Directory, TCP/IP v4/v6, DHCP, DNS, WINS 

  • Legacy – NOVELL 3.1–5, VPN, Citrix, Terminal Services 

  • Monitoring & Management Tools:  

  • Nagios, Ganglia, HP BAC, Precise i3 

  • SGI SMC, HP PCM, Bright Cluster Manager (incl. Data Analytics) 

  • Infrastructure & Automation:  

  • Puppet, Cobbler, Ansible, Chef 

  • Red Hat Satellite, Kickstart, RPM optimization 

  • File Systems & Archiving:  

  • Panasas (DirectFlow/panfs), DDN (GPFS), SGI DMF, StorHouse/RFS (Filetek) 

  • HPC Tools & Job Scheduling:  

  • MOAB/MAUI, Torque, PBS Pro, Windows HPC Scheduler 

  • Visualization & Remote Access:  

  • Nice DCV, EnginFrame, VNC, OpenText Exceed OnDemand, Web Remote Desktop 

  • Containerization & GPU:  

  • Docker, Kubernetes, Kubeflow, NVIDIA DGX-1 GPU systems 

  • Databases:  

  • SQL Server (2000–2008), MySQL, Zope 

  • High-Speed Networking:  

  • Infiniband, Mellanox, OFED, Voltaire, Force10 

  • Proven experience in: 

  • HPC architecture and performance tuning 

  • Cybersecurity in HPC/cloud environments 

  • Infrastructure as Code (AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Packer) 

  • Supporting scientific workflows in research environments 

 

 

 

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.

#INDPSD

Salary Range
$150,000—$160,000 USD