Senior Principal DevOps Engineer

Ad Hoc; Columbia (MD); Remote; USD 180,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Senior Principal DevOps Engineer to provide strategic mentorship and oversee DevOps practices. This role requires extensive experience in DevOps and the ability to communicate effectively across teams. The position is designed for remote work, fostering a collaborative environment that emphasizes flexibility and accountability. Join a team committed to transforming public-sector service delivery through innovative digital solutions.

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

Qualifications

• 12 years of relevant experience may substitute for education.
• Extensive experience with large systems and leading teams.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a DevOps expert providing organizational oversight.
• Mentor other DevOps engineers focusing on technical excellence.
• Architect and design engineering tooling systems.

Skills

DevOps

Mentorship

Technical Competence

Education

Master's or PhD Degree

Tools

DevOps Tools

Job description

Are you ready for new challenges and new opportunities?

Join our team!

Current job opportunities are posted here as they become available.

We are continuously sourcing for talent while we await anticipated job openings. Candidates who apply to this role understand we may not have an immediate opening and wish to be considered for future opportunities.

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:

In this role, you will serve as an experienced subject matter expert, while serving as an individual contributor that provides strategic mentorship among the DevOps engineering discipline. A Senior Principal DevOps Engineer exhibits full autonomy, with the ability to utilize influential skills to shape future work streams within the current customer base, while maintaining a strategic vision to successfully pursue new business opportunities. With limited oversight from leadership, you will serve as the champion of the DevOps engineering discipline, overseeing the integration of industry trends and adoption within programs, as well as the business unit. A Senior Principal DevOps Engineer serves as a representative of the business unit, effectively communicating software engineering strategies to a diverse audience. Primary expectations of a Senior Principal DevOps Engineer include:

• Serves as a DevOps expert; providing organizational oversight of best practices
• Exhibits a in-depth understanding of DevOps engineering and utilizes their expertise to support the business unit via new business or organic growth opportunities
• Demonstrates significant technical competence and ownership to broad audiences while driving progress on company strategic objectives within the company
• Mentors, guides, and coaches other DevOps engineers at the company, with a focus on technical excellence and leadership
• Architects and designs engineering tooling systems and cloud infrastructure that enable teams to scale quickly and reliably
• 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
• Champions collaboration with teams across the company to identify DevOps needs and delivers solutions to advance medium and long-term technology goals
• May support hiring, onboarding and career development activities
• May represent the company publicly inclusive of writing blog posts, generating marketing materials, presenting at conferences, and taking part in panel discussions
• Understanding of the business unit’s current labor mix, with the ability to identify primary skills and experiences; supports the key personnel identification process
• Extensive understanding of government and practice market conditions in order to drive organizational improvements and innovation

Basic Qualifications:

• Master's or PHD Degree and 12 years of experience
  • 12 years of relevant years of experience may be substituted for education
• Extensive experience with large systems, leading large teams, and understanding interactions between people, systems, and processes
• Familiarity of new industry trends in DevOps tools and concepts

Preferred Qualifications:

• Current or recent Public Trust Clearance
• 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/Affirmative Action 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.

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 $180,000 - $215,000. Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements.