Senior DevOps Engineer (Library of Congress)

This is a remote position.

About the company

Ad Hoc is 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.

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

• Serve as an experienced individual contributor within a team, further developing leadership, guidance, and mentoring skills
• Support the goal of meeting scope, schedule, and delivery requirements with minimal oversight from leadership
• Impact the long-term goals of the program while contributing to the development of the program’s DevOps and software engineering strategy
• Serve as the discipline’s primary lead when working with stakeholders and utilize strong influential skills to drive improvements in software engineering processes and practices
• Collaborate across teams to consolidate and simplify DevOps tools and services
• Mentor individuals within the team
• Lead small, less critical, or temporary team structures and projects
• Present design documents, system diagrams, etc. to clients, stakeholders, partners, and other engineers
• Perform self-directed cloud infrastructure design and pipeline design, including cloud-specific product offerings and tradeoffs between cost, reliability, and efficiency
• Build libraries, modules, and packages for other infrastructure engineers to integrate with their projects
• Build cloud infrastructure that supports applications and improves the broader developer experience for engineers
• Develop CI/CD processes to help deliver software of higher quality at greater speed
• Integrate tools to satisfy non-functional requirements such as quality thresholds, security vulnerabilities, and static analysis
• Build specific application test and deployment pipelines using automated tooling such as Jenkins, Github Actions, Circle CI, Gitlab CI
• Proactively work with government partners and app teams to ensure shipping software that meets security, SLA, and performance requirements
• Participate in technical depth interviews with new candidates

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of experience (relevant years of experience may be substituted for education)
• Expert-level knowledge in at least one infrastructure-as-code tool (e.g., Terraform, Ansible)
• Expertise in key DevOps concepts: installing software, virtualization, containerization, networking, etc.

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 $125,000–142,000. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide range of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and responsibility.