Engineer Lead (Remote)

Ad Hoc LLC is a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. The Engineer Lead will oversee and mentor teams responsible for building and operating a next-generation digital platform focused on public health communication, AI capabilities, and advanced data integration.

Responsibilities:

• Cloud-native infrastructure design and automation
• Kubernetes-based compute platforms
• Enterprise CI/CD modernization
• Observability, reliability, and automated recovery frameworks
• Secure environments optimized for AI, high-velocity data, and modern application architectures
• Define and enforce standards for Infrastructure as Code, enabling the organization to operate with full automation, consistency, and auditability across environments
• Ensure infrastructure is versioned, tested, policy-validated, and easily scalable
• Rapidly integrate new data sources and AI capabilities
• Scale to support national-level communication and analytical workloads
• Operate with resilience, security, and reliability
• Innovate quickly while maintaining trust and performance
• Ability to design and review complex automation services, internal APIs, and tooling that streamline deployments, platform operations, and AI-driven workflows
• Guide teams in standardized patterns for automation, data integration, and platform observability
• Deep experience architecting IaC patterns for large-scale cloud environments
• Ability to set organization-wide standards for provisioning, configuration, compliance enforcement, and environment lifecycle management
• Lead the shift toward fully automated, reproducible, policy-driven infrastructure
• Design and govern real-time event pipelines supporting: AI/ML triggers, High-frequency social/media data ingestion, Real-time system monitoring and health automation, Platform-wide event-driven workflows
• Mentor teams on building durable, scalable streaming systems
• Expert-level experience running production workloads in Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE)
• Strong foundation in cloud networking, multi-region high availability, service mesh, autoscaling, and secure distributed architecture
• Ability to architect and standardize enterprise CI/CD frameworks enabling rapid, safe delivery
• Skilled in automated testing, security gates, policy-as-code, and zero-downtime deployment strategies
• Define organizational SLIs/SLOs and implement resilient monitoring, alerting, and automated remediation
• Lead incident response and ensure long-term reliability improvements
• Experience managing DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering teams, including hiring, mentoring, and performance management
• Strength in stakeholder communication and cross-team technical alignment
• Ability to establish a strategic platform roadmap that supports emerging AI and data capabilities

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree and 9+ years of experience
• • Relevant years of experience may be substituted for education
• Ability to design and review complex automation services, internal APIs, and tooling that streamline deployments, platform operations, and AI-driven workflows
• Guides teams in standardized patterns for automation, data integration, and platform observability
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation)
• Deep experience architecting IaC patterns for large-scale cloud environments
• Ability to set organization-wide standards for provisioning, configuration, compliance enforcement, and environment lifecycle management
• Leads the shift toward fully automated, reproducible, policy-driven infrastructure
• Event-Driven Architecture Expertise (Kafka, AWS EventBridge, Azure Event Hubs)
• Designs and governs real-time event pipelines supporting: AI/ML triggers, High-frequency social/media data ingestion, Real-time system monitoring and health automation, Platform-wide event-driven workflows
• Mentors teams on building durable, scalable streaming systems
• Cloud & Container Platform Mastery (AWS, Azure, or GCP + Docker + Kubernetes)
• Expert-level experience running production workloads in Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE)
• Strong foundation in cloud networking, multi-region high availability, service mesh, autoscaling, and secure distributed architecture
• CI/CD Architecture Leadership (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar)
• Ability to architect and standardize enterprise CI/CD frameworks enabling rapid, safe delivery
• Skilled in automated testing, security gates, policy-as-code, and zero-downtime deployment strategies
• Observability & Reliability Engineering (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, ELK)
• Defines organizational SLIs/SLOs and implements resilient monitoring, alerting, and automated remediation
• Leads incident response and ensures long-term reliability improvements
• Experience managing DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering teams, including hiring, mentoring, and performance management
• Strength in stakeholder communication and cross-team technical alignment
• Ability to establish a strategic platform roadmap that supports emerging AI and data capabilities
• Security & Compliance Automation (FedRAMP, NIST, Zero Trust) - Experience embedding automated controls, scanning, and compliance policies into CI/CD and runtime environments
• Workflow Orchestration (Airflow, Prefect) - Useful for managing complex operational tasks, data processing pipelines, and platform automation efforts
• Healthcare Interoperability Experience (FHIR, HL7) - Helpful for data exchange and system-integration needs across HHS
• Program-Level Platform Strategy - Experience defining cross-cutting platform modernization plans spanning infrastructure, automation, data, and AI readiness