Staff DevOps Engineer

Ad Hoc LLC; Columbia (MD); Remote; USD 140,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading technology company as a Staff DevOps Engineer, where you will leverage your expertise to lead software engineering initiatives while working with federal agencies. With a culture built for remote work and a commitment to high standards, you will have opportunities to influence technical decisions and mentor others. Ideal candidates will have a Bachelor's degree and extensive experience in DevOps methodologies.

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

• 15+ years of experience in relevant fields.
• Expert-level knowledge in multiple DevOps tools.
• Mastery of key DevOps concepts.

Responsibilities

• Lead and monitor delivery requirements with minimal oversight.
• Improve technical decision-making through influential skills.
• Guide development of solution infrastructure.

Skills

DevOps

CI/CD skills

Bash

AWS knowledge

Infrastructure-as-code tools

Education

Bachelor's degree

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 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 emerging subject matter expert, while serving as an individual contributor that exhibits a high level of trust, autonomy and empowerment. With minimal oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for leading and monitoring the ability to meet scope, schedule and delivery requirements and may support adjacent programs with the business unit. A Staff DevOps Engineer exhibits strong influential skills to represent the software engineering practice in planning sessions, advocating for the best technical solution, while communicating tradeoffs. You will serve as the primary lead and proactively communicate with stakeholders; while utilizing strong influential skills to drive improvements in software engineering and DevOps processes and practices. Primary expectations of a Staff DevOps Engineer include:

• Strong influential skills to improve technical decision-making of clients through relationship-building
• Presents on technical topics effectively, articulating implementation complexity and other costs to inform business decisions
• Emerging people leader/mentor that exhibits high levels of trust, autonomy, and empowerment
• Guides the development and operation of the full lifecycle of the solution infrastructure
• Provides expertise in DevOps use of cloud-based services, defined using IaaC tooling
• Ensures processes and design provide robust defense-in-depth through security best-practices
• Ensures that systems operate smoothly and align with CMS/NIST quality and compliance standards so clients retain ATO
• Plans and executes migrations to cloud-native data services
• Actively participates in conversations and planning sessions with partners and key stakeholders
• Periodically travels to work with and present to clients, partners, and stakeholders
• Elaborates on and evolves complex and ambiguous products to uncover constraints and new opportunities
• 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
• Participates in technical depth interviews with new candidates

Basic Qualifications (Please update with any contract related requirements):

• Bachelor's and 15+ years of experience
  • Relevant years of experience may be substituted for education
• Demonstrates expert-level knowledge in multiple infrastructure-as-code tools,general
• Devops / Infrastructure knowledge
• CI/CD skills, Bash, AWS knowledge
• Mastery of key DevOps concepts: installing software, virtualization, containerization, networking, etc.

Preferred Qualifications:(Provide the nice to haves for this role; not having these will not disqualify the candidate)

• 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 $140,000-$150,000. Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements.