Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ad Hoc is a technology company that delivers scalable digital services for government and public-sector organizations. The Staff DevOps Engineer will lead the design, operation, automation, security, and continuous improvement of cloud infrastructure, DevOps processes, and delivery pipelines while collaborating with clients and 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
- 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 Degree and 9+ years of experience + Relevant years of experience may be substituted for education
- Demonstrates expert-level knowledge in multiple infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. terraform, ansible)
- 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
- 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
- Terraform (expert), HashiCorp Vault (expert), AWS/Azure (certification required), Git/GitHub (for version control), Jenkins/GitLab CI/CD, Python (for scripting)
Benefits
- This is a remote position.
- 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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