Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ad Hoc LLC is a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. The Staff DevOps and Systems Integration Engineer will lead the design and operation of a secure cloud platform, automate infrastructure provisioning, and improve DevOps processes while collaborating with various stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate the scalable, secure Cloud platform and its services
- Automate infrastructure provisioning via IaC and integrate pipelines. Ensure platform stability, high availability, and optimal cost management
- Writing and maintaining Terraform modules to manage cloud landing zones
- Developing reusable CI/CD pipeline templates for microservices and API services. Configuring and monitoring platform observability
- 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
- Strong influential skills to collaborate across teams to consolidate and simplify DevSecOps tools and services
- Deliver secure, modern application features and API components that integrate with core IRS systems
- Foster adoption of new platform tools and services by providing comprehensive documentation, training, and support
- Maintains a high-level understanding of adjacent technical areas and ecosystems to effectively coordinate integration with those systems
- 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
Skills
- Bachelor's and 9+ 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 DevSecOps concepts: installing software, virtualization, containerization, networking, etc
- Mastery of key DevOps concepts: installing software, virtualization, containerization, networking, etc
- Demonstrates expert-level knowledge in at least one technical area (including but not limited to frontend, backend, or infrastructure engineering)
- Expertise in cloud-native architecture, container orchestration (Kubernetes, AKS/EKS/GKE), hybrid connectivity, and disaster recovery configuration. Strong analytical skills for performance optimization and FinOps reporting
- Languages & Software Potentially Needed: Terraform (expert), HashiCorp Vault (expert), AWS/Azure (certification required), Git/GitHub (for version control), Jenkins/GitLab CI/CD, Python (for scripting)
- Full-stack application development experience (back-end focus strongly preferred)
- Proficiency in API-first development, systems integration, and complex troubleshooting
- Excellent technical writing and communication skills (DevRel/DevEx)
- Go/Java/Node.js (API development), Python/Ruby (scripting), PostgreSQL/NoSQL databases, experience with API Gateways (e.g., Kong, Apigee), Jira/Confluence (expert-level scripting/configuration for JIRA migration and maintenance)
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
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