Senior DevOps Engineer

Job number: 774

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:

Senior DevOps Engineer serves as an experienced individual contributor within a team, with the expectation that you will further develop your leadership, guidance and mentoring skills. With minimal oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements. A Senior DevOps Engineer impacts the long-term goals of the program, while contributing to the development of the program’s DevOps and software engineering strategy. You may serve as the discipline’s primary lead when working with stakeholders and utilize strong influential skills to drive improvements in software engineering processes and practices. Primary expectations of a Senior DevOps Engineer include:

• Strong influential skills to collaborate across teams to consolidate and simplify DevOps tools and services

• Serves as a mentor to individuals within the team

• May leads small, less critical, or temporary team structures and projects

• Presents design documents, system diagrams, etc. to clients, stakeholders, partners, and other engineers

• Capable of self-directed cloud infrastructure design and pipeline design, including cloud-specific product offerings, and tradeoffs between cost, reliability, and efficiency

• 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

• Develops 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

• Proactively works with our government partners and app teams to ensure that we are shipping software that meets security, SLA, and performance requirements

• Participates in technical depth interviews with new candidates

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's and 7+ years of experience

  • Relevant years of experience may be substituted for education

• Demonstrates expert-level knowledge in at least one infrastructure-as-code tool (e.g. terraform, ansible)

• Expertise in key DevOps concepts: installing software, virtualization, containerization, networking, etc.

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 $125,000-142,000. Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements.