Staff DevOps Engineer

About the role

Ad Hoc is a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. We use modern, agile methods to create products that meet people’s needs and transform their experience of government.

Primary Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership in designing, implementing, and maintaining secure, scalable cloud infrastructure supporting mission-critical federal digital services.
• Partner closely with software engineers, architects, security engineers, and program leadership to automate software delivery, improve system reliability, and drive operational excellence through modern DevSecOps practices.
• Lead infrastructure automation initiatives, support cloud-native application delivery, and help establish engineering best practices that improve the speed, quality, and security of software deployments.
• Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure supporting enterprise applications.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using modern automation frameworks.
• Mentor engineers on DevOps principles, automation, cloud technologies, and operational best practices.

Required Skills

• Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of professional DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Cloud Infrastructure, or Infrastructure Engineering experience (additional experience may substitute for education).
• Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using modern DevOps tools.
• Experience developing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or similar automation frameworks.
• Experience administering AWS cloud environments and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), or other container orchestration platforms.
• Strong understanding of networking, virtualization, Linux and Windows server administration, storage, and infrastructure architecture.
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, observability, and performance monitoring solutions.
• Experience implementing DevSecOps practices and secure software delivery pipelines.
• Experience supporting highly available production environments and incident response.
• Strong scripting and automation experience using PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar languages.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and communication skills.
• U.S. Citizenship with the ability to obtain and maintain a DHS Public Trust.

Desired Skills

• Experience supporting DHS, USCIS, or other Federal Civilian agencies.
• Experience administering Windows Server 2019 or later.
• Experience supporting Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle Database environments, including Oracle RAC.
• Experience with Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) or modern microservices architectures.
• Experience with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, or similar CI/CD platforms.
• Experience implementing Kubernetes operators, Helm charts, or GitOps workflows.
• Experience supporting container security and Kubernetes security best practices.
• Familiarity with AWS services including EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch, Lambda, Route 53, and VPC networking.
• Experience implementing monitoring solutions such as Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, or CloudWatch.
• Experience supporting disaster recovery, backup strategies, and business continuity planning.
• Familiarity with NIST security controls, Authority to Operate (ATO) processes, and federal compliance requirements.
• Experience working within Agile and DevSecOps delivery environments.

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.

Company Information

Ad Hoc LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination. We value the unique skills gained through military service and encourage veterans and transitioning service members to apply.

To learn more about working at Ad Hoc, please visit: https://adhocteam.us/join