Staff DevOps Engineer

This is a remote position.

Ad Hoc is a digital services company that helps the federal government better serve people. Our teams use modern, agile methods to meet the needs of our users while closing the gap between consumer expectations and government.

Work on things that matter

Our teams connect Veterans with services designed for their needs, help millions of people 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 thinks about and uses technology.

Built for a remote life

Ad Hoc is remote-first and remote-always. We've designed our culture, communications, and tools to support a nationwide team. Being remote allows Ad Hoc to bring the best people onto our teams and give them the freedom to create a work environment that fits their lives. Maybe you need to adjust your schedule to care for your family or take a bike ride. At Ad Hoc, that's welcomed.

Committed to high expectations and a welcoming culture

Ad Hoc values acceptance, accountability, and humility. We aren't heroes. We leave our egos at the door to learn from our mistakes and improve the process for the next time.. We build small, inclusive teams to bring the best of consumer technology to the problems of government.

The Federal Civilian business unit supports a wide range of customers that span the federal, commercial, and nonprofit space. Our customers include the General Services Administration, Office of Personnel Management, PAN Foundation, Library of Congress, Social Security Administration, Health and Human Services, and the USDA Forest Service. 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:

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, information systems/technology, engineering/engineering technology, software
• 15+ years of experience with cloud services and infrastructure including IaC (Cloud Formation, Terraform, etc.) and implementation of cloud security and governance best practices
• 10 years of experience with cloud-native, web-based application architecture and development (including JavaScript, PHP, and Python)
• Strong leadership/consultative mindset
• Experience implementing event-driven orchestration using cloud-native services including AWS SQS, EventBridge, Lambda, and CloudWatch
• Knowledge of database design, SQL scripts and queries, and ETL processing including AWS RDS PostgreSQL
• Demonstrated experience in modernizing applications by leveraging cloud-native architecture and design patterns that use microservices, functions-as-a-service, containers, DevOps orchestration and continuous deployment
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate

Preferred Qualifications:

• Existing Federal Student Aid Public Trust Clearance
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional

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

Benefits:

• Company-subsidized Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Use What You Need Vacation Policy
• 401K with employer match
• Paid parental leave after one year of service

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 theColorado Equal Pay Transparency Act, and others like it across the country, 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 $135,000 -$145,000. Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements.

job reference: STAFF001292