Staff DevOps Engineer: Cloud Infra & CI/CD Lead (Remote)

Ad Hoc; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company-subsidized health, dental, and

Vision insurance

Flexible PTO

401K with employer match

Paid parental leave

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Ad Hoc is a technology company enabling public-sector digital services and remote collaboration nationwide. We seek a Staff DevOps Engineer to lead infrastructure strategy, mentor teams, and collaborate with government partners to deliver scalable, secure software.

You will drive CI/CD adoption, architect cloud-native solutions, and ensure compliance while delivering high-quality services to Veterans Affairs programs and other clients.

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, virtualization, containerization, 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 tradeoffs 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 authorization 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; support adjacent programs within the business unit.
• Shape the long-term technical strategy of the program and advocate for the best technical solution.
• Serve as primary lead and proactively communicate with stakeholders while using strong influencing skills to drive improvements in software engineering and DevOps across teams.
• Improve technical decision-making through relationship-building and consolidating DevOps tools and services across multiple teams or programs.
• Mentor team members and emerging people leaders; guide cloud infrastructure and pipeline design decisions with cost, reliability, and efficiency tradeoffs.
• Oversee full lifecycle of solution infrastructure, using IaC tooling and cloud-based services; guide libraries and modules used across projects.
• Ensure security, quality, and compliance with CMS/NIST standards; drive CI/CD strategy improvement for higher quality software.

Skills

DevOps concepts

Cloud services

Security/compliance

Observability

SRE practices

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform/Terragrunt

GitHub Actions

Argo CD

HAProxy/OpenResty

AWS Cloud Services (EKS/Kubernetes)

Job description

Ad Hoc is a technology company enabling public-sector digital services and remote collaboration nationwide. We seek a Staff DevOps Engineer to lead infrastructure strategy, mentor teams, and collaborate with government partners to deliver scalable, secure software.

You will drive CI/CD adoption, architect cloud-native solutions, and ensure compliance while delivering high-quality services to Veterans Affairs programs and other clients.