Software Engineer III DevOps (remote)

Ad Hoc; Sacramento (CA); Remote; USD 101,000 - 137,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a driven DevOps Engineer to join their innovative team. In this vital role, you will implement DevOps methodologies and optimize development processes that enhance the quality and speed of software delivery. You will collaborate with diverse teams to build tools and services that simplify operations while ensuring compliance with security and performance standards. This opportunity allows you to contribute to meaningful projects that directly impact the lives of millions, making government services more accessible and efficient. If you are passionate about technology and eager to make a difference, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience in software design and development.
• Expertise in implementing DevOps methodologies and CI/CD processes.

Responsibilities

• Shipping impactful software that serves millions.
• Developing CI/CD processes for higher quality software delivery.
• Collaborating across teams to optimize DevOps tools.

Skills

Software design and development

DevOps methodologies

Collaboration with teams

Infrastructure as code

Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

Communication skills

Networking fundamentals

Agile methodologies

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

Gitlab Pipelines

Jenkins

CircleCI

Job description

• 3+ years of experience in software design and development, architecture, operations
• Experience with Amazon Web Services, in particular, ECS/Fargate, CloudWatch, IAM, EC2, and S3
• 2+ years of Experience with tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
• Experience with GitHub Actions, Gitlab Pipelines, CI/CD process tools such as Jenkins or CircleCI

Work on things that matter Ad Hoc is a digital services company that helps the federal government better serve people. Our teams use modern, agile methods to design and engineer government systems that connect Veterans with services, bring affordable health care to millions of people, and support important programs like Head Start.

What you’ll do

Our ideal DevOps Engineer will be an expert on implementing DevOps methodologies like Continuous Delivery, building tools and services to optimize the development feedback loop, and operating and configuring infrastructure as code to ensure we ship stable and performant services. We’re looking for a driven and organized DevOps Engineer to help guide our teams in delivering the very best digital services for the public.

As an Ad Hoc DevOps Engineer, you’ll be:

• Shipping software that impacts the lives of millions of people
• Building libraries, modules, and packages for other infrastructure engineers to integrate with their projects
• Collaborating across teams to consolidate and simplify DevOps tools and services
• Developing Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) processes to help deliver software of higher quality at greater speed
• Working closely with our government partners and app teams to ensure that we are shipping software that meets security, SLA, and performance requirements
• Solving problems in ways that drive towards simplicity of architecture and operations

What we hope you'll bring

• 3+ years experience in software design and development, architecture, operations
• 2+ years experience with Amazon Web Services, in particular, ECS/Fargate, CloudWatch, IAM, EC2, and S3
• Experience with infrastructure as code, such as Terraform or CloudFormation
• Experience with GitHub Actions, Gitlab Pipelines, CI/CD process tools such as Jenkins or CircleCI
• Experience collaborating with other teams, adopting their goals as your own
• Familiarity with building optimized containers
• Familiarity with automated testing
• Familiarity with static analysis tools and other CI tools used for security and compliance
• Solid spelling, grammar, and communication skills
• Understanding of basic networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, UDP, routing, load balancing, SSH preferred
• Experience with one or more different agile methodologies such as Scrum, XP, or SAFe preferred

More than that, our ideal candidate wants to contribute to work that is bigger than themselves, and wants to make a difference collaborating with their team. They care deeply about building better products, better relationships, and better trust in each interaction people have with their government. They believe in intuitive, easy-to-use government services. They collaborate well with designers, stakeholders, and other teams. They mentor and guide more junior engineers. They’re human-centered.

Some basic requirements

• All work must be conducted within the U.S., excluding U.S. territories. Some federal contracts require U.S. citizenship to be eligible for employment.
• You must be legally authorized to work in the U.S now and in the future without sponsorship.
• As a government contractor, you may be required to obtain a public trust security clearance.
• Some of our available roles are on federal contracts that require a degree or additional years of experience as a substitute.
• 2+ years of experience in software design and development, architecture, and operations

In support of the Colorado Equal Pay Transparency Act, and others like it across the country, 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 $101,569.55 - 136,994.00.