Remote Senior DevOps Engineer – AWS & Kubernetes

Ad Hoc LLC; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Flexible PTO

401K with employer match

Paid parental leave

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Ad Hoc LLC is seeking a DevOps Engineer III for a remote role supporting federal projects. You will advance DevOps practices, automate cloud infrastructure, and lead CI/CD pipelines in a fast-paced government-focused environment.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor junior staff, and help ensure security, performance, and reliability across our AWS-based platforms. This is a full-time remote opportunity with strong growth potential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of professional software engineering experience (or equivalent combination of education and experience)
• Hands-on production experience with AWS as a primary cloud provider
• Working proficiency with Kubernetes (EKS or equivalent) - deploying, troubleshooting, and managing containerized workloads
• Proficient with Terraform (or comparable IaC tool) for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar
• Comfortable working in a Linux environment (shell scripting, systemd, networking basics, package management)
• Background in key DevOps concepts: containerization, virtualization, networking, load balancing/reverse proxies
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Team player who can work with other engineers to resolve issues
• Ability to clearly explain technical decisions and tradeoffs regarding complex infrastructure to teammates and stakeholders
• Contributes meaningfully to planning discussions
• Reliably performs DevOps support rotation (business hours) and on-call responsibility (beyond business hours)
• U.S. citizenship or current legal authorization to work and reside in the United States without employer sponsorship is required.

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 government partners and app teams to ensure software meets security, SLA, and performance requirements

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Terragrunt

Argo CD

Linux

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Argo CD

NGINX

Datadog

CloudWatch

Job description

Ad Hoc LLC is seeking a DevOps Engineer III for a remote role supporting federal projects. You will advance DevOps practices, automate cloud infrastructure, and lead CI/CD pipelines in a fast-paced government-focused environment.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor junior staff, and help ensure security, performance, and reliability across our AWS-based platforms. This is a full-time remote opportunity with strong growth potential.