[Remote] DevOps Engineer III
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ad Hoc is a technology company that creates scalable digital services for government organizations, including the Department of Veterans Affairs. The DevOps Engineer III supports cloud infrastructure, automated deployments, CI/CD processes, and DevOps improvements while collaborating with engineers, stakeholders, and government partners to meet security, service-level, and performance requirements.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- • Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of professional software engineering experience (or equivalent combination of education and experience)
- • Hands-on production experience with AWS as a primary cloud provider
- • Working proficiency with Kubernetes (EKS or equivalent) — deploying, troubleshooting, and managing containerized workloads
- • Proficient with Terraform (or comparable IaC tool) for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure
- • Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar
- • Comfortable working in a Linux environment (shell scripting, systemd, networking basics, package management)
- • Background in key DevOps concepts: containerization, virtualization, networking, load balancing/reverse proxies
- • Strong written and verbal communication skills
- • Team player who can work with other engineers to resolve issues
- • Ability to clearly explain technical decisions and tradeoffs regarding complex infrastructure to teammates and stakeholders
- • Contributes meaningfully to planning discussions
- • Reliably performs DevOps support rotation (business hours) and on-call responsibility (beyond business hours)
- • U.S. citizenship or current legal authorization to work and reside in the United States without employer sponsorship is required
- • Direct experience with Terragrunt for managing multi-environment/multi-account Terraform configurations
- • Experience with Argo CD / Argo Workflows (or other GitOps deployment tooling)
- • Familiarity with HAProxy and/or OpenResty (or comparable reverse proxy / API gateway tools like NGINX, Envoy, Kong)
- • Proficiency with at least one scripting/coding language (Go, Bash, Python, etc.)
- • Experience with GitHub Actions specifically (reusable workflows, composite actions, self-hosted runners)
- • Experience integrating security/quality tooling into pipelines (SAST/DAST, dependency scanning)
- • Experience working within federal/government IT environments (ATO processes, FedRAMP, STIGs, or similar compliance frameworks)
- • Experience building internal developer platforms or "golden path" tooling to improve developer experience
- • Experience with observability stacks (Datadog, CloudWatch)
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
Company Overview