Staff DevOps Engineer

Ad Hoc LLC; United States; On-site; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible PTO

401K with employer match

Paid parental leave

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

Ad Hoc LLC in the United States is seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to drive the long-term technical strategy for government-focused software programs. You will blend hands-on delivery with leadership, shaping CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and security practices across teams.

Remote-friendly role with opportunity to engage directly with federal partners and clients, travel as needed, and contribute to critical public-sector projects, including Veterans Affairs initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 9+ years of professional software engineering experience (or equivalent combination of education and experience).
• Expert-level mastery of core DevOps concepts: installing software, virtualisation, containerisation, networking, etc.
• Expert-level knowledge of Terraform/Terragrunt, including module design and multi-environment state management at scale
• Expert-level knowledge of GitHub Actions and Argo CD, including designing and troubleshooting complex CI/CD pipelines across teams
• Expert-level knowledge of HAProxy/OpenResty in production environments
• Expert-level knowledge of AWS Cloud Services, including EKS/Kubernetes cluster architecture, workload scheduling, and lifecycle management
• Demonstrated experience leading infrastructure design decisions and communicating trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• U.S. citizenship or current legal authorisation to work and reside in the United States without employer sponsorship is required.

Responsibilities

• Lead and monitor the ability to meet scope, schedule, and delivery requirements with minimal oversight.
• Shape the long-term technical strategy of the programme, representing software engineering practices in planning sessions.
• Communicate with stakeholders and drive improvements in software engineering and DevOps processes across teams.
• Mentor engineers and act as a people leader when appropriate.
• Plan and execute migrations to cloud-native data services.
• Engage with partners and clients in planning sessions and reviews.
• Ensure security, SLA, and performance requirements are met across the programme.

Skills

DevOps fundamentals

Terraform/Terragrunt

GitHub Actions/Argo CD

HAProxy/OpenResty

AWS Cloud Services/EKS

Infrastructure design leadership

CMS/NIST compliance

US work authorization

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Job ID #911 Ad Hoc is a technology company that empowers organisations 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.

This is a remote position.

Job ID #911

Ad Hoc is a technology company that empowers organisations 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 programmes 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 organisation where Veteran outcomes are at the centre 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 emerging subject matter expert while serving as an individual contributor who 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 programmes within the business unit. A Staff DevOps Engineer shapes the long-term technical strategy of the programme, representing the software engineering practice in planning sessions, advocating for the best technical solution while communicating trade-offs. You will serve as the primary lead and proactively communicate with stakeholders while utilising strong influential skills to drive improvements in software engineering and DevOps processes and practices across teams.

Primary Responsibilities Include

• Strong influential skills to improve technical decision-making of clients through relationship-building, and to consolidate and simplify DevOps tools and services across multiple teams or programmes
• Serves as a mentor to individuals across the team and an emerging people leader, exhibiting high levels of trust, autonomy, and empowerment
• Leads critical or cross-cutting team structures and projects
• Presents on technical topics effectively to clients, stakeholders, partners, and engineers, articulating implementation complexity and cost trade-offs to inform business decisions
• Guides self-directed cloud infrastructure and pipeline design decisions made by others, weighing cost, reliability, and efficiency trade-offs at a programme level
• Guides the development and operation of the full lifecycle of the solution infrastructure, providing expertise in DevOps use of cloud-based services, defined using IaC tooling
• Sets direction for libraries, modules, and packages that other infrastructure engineers build and integrate with across projects
• Ensures processes and design provide robust defence-in-depth through security best practices and that systems align with CMS/NIST quality and compliance standards so clients retain ATO
• Establishes and evolves CI/CD strategy — beyond building individual pipelines — to help the broader organisation deliver software of higher quality at greater speed
• Ensures tooling is integrated to satisfy non-functional requirements such as quality thresholds, security vulnerabilities, and static analysis across programmes
• Plans and executes migrations to cloud-native data services
• Actively participates in, and often leads, 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
• Proactively works with government partners and app teams to ensure software shipped across the programme meets security, SLA, and performance requirements
• Effectively communicates on existing systems, design decisions, past performance, and project history for bid-writing, tech demos, and other client-facing communications
• Participates in technical depth interviews with new candidates, often shaping the technical bar for the discipline

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 9+ years of professional software engineering experience (or equivalent combination of education and experience)
• Expert-level mastery of core DevOps concepts: installing software, virtualisation, containerisation, networking, etc.
• Expert-level knowledge of Terraform/Terragrunt, including module design and multi-environment state management at scale
• Expert-level knowledge of GitHub Actions and Argo CD, including designing and troubleshooting complex CI/CD pipelines across teams
• Expert-level knowledge of HAProxy/OpenResty in production environments
• Expert-level knowledge of AWS Cloud Services, including EKS/Kubernetes cluster architecture, workload scheduling, and lifecycle management
• Demonstrated experience leading infrastructure design decisions and communicating trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience ensuring systems meet CMS/NIST compliance standards to support client ATO retention
• U.S. citizenship or current legal authorisation 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 operating across both DevOps and SRE functions
• Expertise with observability tooling such as Datadog
• Experience with security tooling such as Trivy or Aqua
• Experience navigating the FedRAMP/ATO process
• Experience mentoring engineers

Benefits

• Company-subsidised health, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible PTO
• 401K with employer match
• Paid parental leave after one year of service
• Employee Assistance Programme

Ad Hoc LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, 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 - $150,000.

Job Reference

https://adhoc.team/