Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer — Remote

Ad Hoc LLC; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental & vision insurance

Flexible PTO

401K with employer match

Paid parental leave

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Ad Hoc LLC is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join a remote-ready team delivering secure, scalable digital services for government partners. You will drive cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and tooling integration in collaboration with engineers and stakeholders.

Ideal applicants have 5+ years of practical DevOps experience in AWS, Kubernetes, IaC, and GitHub Actions, with a strong focus on security, performance, and reliability in federal IT environments.

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 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 our government partners and app teams to ensure that we are shipping software that meets security, SLA, and performance requirements

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Linux

Security

Communication

On-call rotation

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terragrunt

Argo CD

NGINX

HAProxy

Datadog

Job description

Ad Hoc LLC is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join a remote-ready team delivering secure, scalable digital services for government partners. You will drive cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and tooling integration in collaboration with engineers and stakeholders.

Ideal applicants have 5+ years of practical DevOps experience in AWS, Kubernetes, IaC, and GitHub Actions, with a strong focus on security, performance, and reliability in federal IT environments.