DevOps Engineer III (Library of Congress)

This is a remote position with Ad Hoc, a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. Using modern, agile methods, our team creates products that meet people’s needs and transform their experience of government.

About the role

Work on things that matter. Our collaborations have shaped some of the defining moments in public-sector service delivery. We’ve helped build products that connect Veterans to tailored services, help millions access affordable health care, and support important programs like Head Start. As we work with agencies to deliver critical services, we’re also changing how the government approaches technology.

Built for a remote life. Our culture, communications, and tools are built for remote work, enabling us to bring together top talent nationwide. At Ad Hoc, remote life empowers our teams to design work environments that fit their lives and that foster flexibility and collaboration to achieve positive outcomes for our customers.

Committed to high expectations and a welcoming culture. Ad Hoc values acceptance, accountability, and humility. We aren’t heroes. We learn from our mistakes and improve the process for the next time. We build small, inclusive teams to collaborate closely with our partners to solve the right problems and deliver software that works.

The Federal Civilian business unit supports many customers spanning the federal, commercial, and nonprofit space. Our customers include NASA, the General Services Administration, Office of Personnel Management, the Library of Congress, Health & Human Services, and the FDIC. We partner with these agencies to build new capabilities, deliver products, establish data as a strategic asset for informed decision-making, modernize legacy systems, and build the digital service infrastructure necessary to scale their mission impact.

Responsibilities

• Exhibits influential skills to collaborate across teams to consolidate and simplify DevOps tools and services
• Exhibits the ability to solve problems in ways that drive towards simplicity of architecture and operations
• Capable of completing cloud infrastructure and automated deployment tasks at the direction of a senior engineer
• Builds libraries, modules, and packages for other infrastructure engineers to integrate with their projects
• Builds cloud infrastructure that supports applications and improves the broader developer experience for engineers
• Supports CI/CD processes to help deliver software of higher quality at greater speed
• Integrates tools to satisfy non-functional requirements such as quality thresholds, security vulnerabilities, and static analysis
• Builds specific application test and deployment pipelines using automated tooling such as Jenkins, Github Actions, Circle CI, Gitlab CI
• Progressive experience working with our government partners and app teams to ensure that we are shipping software that meets security, SLA, and performance requirements
• Supports recruiting efforts by evaluating homework assignments and potentially assisting with interviews

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of experience (relevant years of experience may be substituted for education)
• Must meet federal suitability requirements and pass a background investigation as a condition of employment
• Hands-on experience with AWS services including EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, Lambda, and CloudWatch across multi-account environments
• Proficient with at least one infrastructure-as-code tool for provisioning and drift prevention (e.g., Terraform, Ansible)
• Demonstrated experience building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines in GitLab
• Strong working knowledge of containerization using Docker and container orchestration on AWS ECS
• Familiarity with DevSecOps practices including SAST, dependency scanning, and automated vulnerability remediation
• Solid understanding of networking, virtualization, and cloud infrastructure fundamentals

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior government contracting experience

Benefits

• Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible PTO
• 401K with employer match
• Paid parental leave after one year of service
• Employee Assistance Program

Pay

The range of starting pay for this role is $115,000-125,000.