Senior DevOps Engineer

Ad Hoc; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401K with employer match

Job summary

Ad Hoc LLC is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead DevOps initiatives for public-sector digital services. You will drive cloud infrastructure design, CI/CD pipelines, and security compliance while mentoring junior engineers and collaborating with partners and government teams.

You will leverage Terraform/Terragrunt, GitHub Actions, and Argo CD to deliver scalable, reliable software, with a focus on cost, reliability, and performance. This remote role requires US work authorization.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience or equivalent.
• Expert-level knowledge in Terraform/Terragrunt, GitHub Actions and Argo CD.
• Expert-level knowledge in AWS Cloud Services including EKS/Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Consolidate and simplify DevOps tooling and services.
• Mentor team members within the DevOps discipline.
• Lead small or temporary projects as needed.
• Present design documents and diagrams to clients and stakeholders.
• Design self-directed cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop pipelines with automated tooling (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD).
• Ensure security, SLA, and performance requirements are met.
• Participate in technical depth interviews with new candidates.

Skills

DevOps concepts

Terraform/Terragrunt

GitHub Actions

Argo CD

HAProxy/OpenResty

AWS Cloud Services

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

Datadog

Trivy

Aqua

CircleCI

Job description

Are you ready for new challenges and new opportunities?

Join our team!

Current job opportunities are posted here as they become available.

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 Veterans Affairs business unit helps transform the VA into a modern digital services organization where Veteran outcomes are at the center of every effort. We partner with the VA to design and deliver seamless user experiences for Veterans, their families and caregivers, and VA employees. By applying better practices in service design, product management, and technology, we enable the VA to increase the use, quality, and reliability of services and decrease the time Veterans spend waiting for outcomes.

Primary Responsibilities:

In this role, you will serve as an experienced individual contributor within a team, with the expectation that you will further develop your leadership, guidance and mentoring skills. With minimal oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements. A Senior DevOps Engineer impacts the long-term goals of the program, while contributing to the development of the program’s DevOps and software engineering strategy. You may 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.

Primary responsibilities include:

• Strong influential skills to collaborate across teams to consolidate and simplify DevOps tools and services
• Serves as a mentor to individuals within the team
• May leads small, less critical, or temporary team structures and projects
• Presents design documents, system diagrams, etc. to clients, stakeholders, partners, and other engineers
• 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, and ArgoCDCircle CI, Gitlab CI
• Proactively works with our government partners and app teams to ensure that we are shipping software that meets security, SLA, and performance requirements
• Participates in technical depth interviews with new candidates

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of professional software engineering experience (or equivalent combination of education and experience)
• Expertise in key DevOps concepts: installing software, virtualization, containerization, networking, etc.
• Demonstrates expert-level knowledge in Terraform/Terragrunt
• Demonstrates expert-level knowledge in GitHub Actions and Argo CD
• Demonstrates expert-level knowledge in HAProxy/OpenResty
• Demonstrates expert-level knowledge in AWS Cloud Services, including EKS/Kubernetes
• U.S. citizenship or current legal authorization to work and reside in the United States without employer sponsorship is required. Candidates must also be able to successfully complete and maintain any required government background investigation as a condition of employment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Comfort level with both DevOps and SRE functions
• Expertise with observability using Datadog
• Experience with security tooling using Trivy, Aqua
• 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 $130,000 -$140,000. Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements.