DevOps Engineer III (LOC)

DevOps Engineer III

Job number: 775

This is a remote position.

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

DevOps Engineer III serves as an emerging individual contributor within a team, expanding your leadership, guidance and mentoring skills. With the support and guidance of leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements. You will interact with stakeholders and utilize influential skills to drive improvements in DevOps processes and practices. Primary expectations of a DevOps Engineer III include:

• Exhibits influential skills to collaborate across teams to consolidate and simplify DevOps tools and services
• Exhibits the ability to solve problems in ways that drive towards simplicity of architecture and operations
• Capable of completing cloud infrastructure and automated deployment tasks at the direction of a senior engineer
• Builds libraries, modules, and packages for other infrastructure engineers to integrate with their projects
• Builds cloud infrastructure that supports applications and Improves the broader developer experience for engineers
• Supports CI/CD processes to help deliver software of higher quality at greater speed
• Integrates tools to satisfy non-functional requirements such as quality thresholds, security vulnerabilities, and static analysis
• Builds specific application test and deployment pipelines using automated tooling such as Jenkins, Github Actions, Circle CI, Gitlab CI
• Progressive experience working with our government partners and app teams to ensure that we are shipping software that meets security, SLA, and performance requirements
• Supports recruiting efforts by evaluating homework assignments and potentially assisting with interviews

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's and 5+ years of experience
• Relevant years of experience may be substituted for education
• Must meet federal suitability requirements and pass a background investigation as a condition of employment
• Hands-on experience with AWS services including EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, Lambda, and CloudWatch across multi-account environments
• Proficient with at least one infrastructure-as-code tool for provisioning and drift prevention (e.g. terraform, ansible)
• Demonstrated experience building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines in GitLab
• Strong working knowledge of containerization using Docker and container orchestration on AWS ECS
• Familiarity with DevSecOps practices including SAST, dependency scanning, and automated vulnerability remediation
• Solid understanding of networking, virtualization, and cloud infrastructure fundamentals

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior government contracting experience

To learn more about working at Ad Hoc, please visit: https://adhocteam.us/join

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

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 $115,000-125,000. Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements.

Key skills/competency

• DevOps Engineer III
• AWS
• CI/CD
• Infrastructure as Code
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• GitLab
• Terraform
• Ansible
• Cloud Computing