Evergreen: Staff DevOps and Systems Integration Engineer

Ad Hoc LLC; United States; Hybride; USD 160 000 - 180 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible PTO

Employee Assistance Program

Paid parental leave

Remote-friendly culture

Résumé du poste

Ad Hoc LLC seeks a Staff DevOps and Systems Integration Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable cloud platforms for federal civilian projects. This role is remote and supports nationwide collaboration with partners across government agencies.

You will automate infrastructure with IaC, craft CI/CD templates for microservices and APIs, and drive DevSecOps practices while mentoring teams and delivering secure, compliant software that powers critical public services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 9+ years of experience.
• Expert-level knowledge in at least one IaC tool (Terraform, Ansible).
• Expertise in DevSecOps concepts: securing software, virtualization, containerization, networking.

Responsabilités

• Design, build, and operate scalable cloud platform and services.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning via IaC and CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop Terraform modules to manage cloud landing zones.
• Create CI/CD templates for microservices and API services.
• Collaborate across teams to streamline DevSecOps tooling.
• Deliver secure, modern features and API components.

Connaissances

DevOps

Systems integration

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Technical leadership

Formation

Bachelor's degree

Outils

Terraform

Jira

Confluence

GitHub

Jenkins

GitLab CI

CircleCI

Description du poste

We're always looking for technologists who want to improve how governmentserves people. Browse our current openings below.

Open Talent Network: Staff DevOps and Systems Integration Engineer

Staff DevOps and Systems Integration Engineer

Job Number: 869

This is a remote position.

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.

Primary Responsibilities:

Staff DevOps and Systems Integration Engineer serves as an emerging subject matter expert, while serving as an individual contributor that exhibits a high level of trust, autonomy and empowerment. With minimal oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for leading and monitoring the ability to meet scope, schedule and delivery requirements and may support adjacent programs with the business unit. A Staff DevOps and Systems Integration Engineer exhibits strong influential skills to represent the software engineering practice in planning sessions, advocating for the best technical solution, while communicating tradeoffs. You will serve as the primary lead and proactively communicate with stakeholders; while utilizing strong influential skills to drive improvements in software engineering, systems integration and DevOps processes and practices. Primary expectations of a Staff DevOps and Systems Integration Engineer include:

• Design, build, and operate the scalable, secure Cloud platform and its services.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning via IaC and integrate pipelines. Ensure platform stability, high availability, and optimal cost management.
• Writing and maintaining Terraform modules to manage cloud landing zones.
• Developing reusable CI/CD pipeline templates for microservices and API services. Configuring and monitoring platform observability
• Capable of self-directed cloud infrastructure design and pipeline design, including cloud-specific product offerings, and tradeoffs between cost, reliability, and efficiency
• 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
• Develops 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
• Strong influential skills to collaborate across teams to consolidate and simplify DevSecOps tools and services
• Deliver secure, modern application features and API components that integrate with core IRS systems.
• Foster adoption of new platform tools and services by providing comprehensive documentation, training, and support.
• Maintains a high-level understanding of adjacent technical areas and ecosystems to effectively coordinate integration with those systems
• Strong influential skills to improve technical decision-making of clients through relationship-building
• Presents on technical topics effectively, articulating implementation complexity and other costs to inform business decisions
• Emerging people leader/mentor that exhibits high levels of trust, autonomy, and empowerment
• Guides the development and operation of the full lifecycle of the solution infrastructure
• Provides expertise in DevOps use of cloud-based services, defined using IaaC tooling
• Ensures processes and design provide robust defense-in-depth through security best-practices
• Ensures that systems operate smoothly and align with CMS/NIST quality and compliance standards so clients retain ATO
• Plans and executes migrations to cloud-native data services
• Actively participates in conversations and planning sessions with partners and key stakeholders
• Periodically travels to work with and present to clients, partners, and stakeholders
• Elaborates on and evolves complex and ambiguous products to uncover constraints and new opportunities
• Effectively communicates on existing systems, design decisions, past performance, and a major history of the projects that they've been part of for bid-writing, tech demos, and other potentially client-facing communications
• Participates in technical depth interviews with new candidates

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's and 9+ years of experience
  • Relevant years of experience may be substituted for education
• Demonstrates expert-level knowledge in at least one infrastructure-as-code tool (e.g. terraform, ansible)
• Expertise in key DevSecOps concepts: installing software, virtualization, containerization, networking, etc.
• Mastery of key DevOps concepts: installing software, virtualization, containerization, networking, etc.
• Demonstrates expert-level knowledge in at least one technical area (including but not limited to frontend, backend, or infrastructure engineering)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Expertise in cloud-native architecture, container orchestration (Kubernetes, AKS/EKS/GKE), hybrid connectivity, and disaster recovery configuration. Strong analytical skills for performance optimization and FinOps reporting.
• Languages & Software Potentially Needed: Terraform (expert), HashiCorp Vault (expert), AWS/Azure (certification required), Git/GitHub (for version control), Jenkins/GitLab CI/CD, Python (for scripting).
• Full-stack application development experience (back-end focus strongly preferred).
• Proficiency in API-first development, systems integration, and complex troubleshooting.
• Excellent technical writing and communication skills (DevRel/DevEx).
• Go/Java/Node.js (API development), Python/Ruby (scripting), PostgreSQL/NoSQL databases, experience with API Gateways (e.g., Kong, Apigee), Jira/Confluence (expert-level scripting/configuration for JIRA migration and maintenance).
• Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible PTO
• 401K with employer match
• Paid parental leave after one year of service
• Employee Assistance Program

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.

In support of various state and city equal pay transparency laws, Ad Hoc job descriptions feature the starting range we reasonably expect to pay to candidates who would join our team with little to no need for training on the responsibilities we've outlined above. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide range of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and responsibility. The range of starting pay for this role is $160,000-$180,000. Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements.