DevOps Engineer III (LOC)

Ad Hoc LLC is a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. The DevOps Engineer III role involves building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, automating infrastructure provisioning, and collaborating with various teams to enhance DevOps processes and practices.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitLab, automate infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, and manage containerized deployments using Docker and AWS ECS
• Create and maintain shared deployment tooling, pipeline templates, and Terraform modules that delivery teams across the program consume as self-service infrastructure
• Integrate automated quality, security, and accessibility gates (SonarQube, SAST, container scanning, Trivy) into GitLab pipelines to enforce standards at every merge request
• Configure monitoring and observability tooling, including CloudWatch dashboards and synthetic canaries, to support production visibility across environments
• Support security vulnerability remediation by maintaining trusted base images, automating dependency updates via Renovatebot, and executing container scans in CI/CD pipelines
• Participate in on-call and production triage rotations, supporting Tier 2/3 incident response and BCDR activities
• Collaborate with cloud architects, backend engineers, and security teams to enforce infrastructure-as-code standards and prevent configuration drift
• Author and maintain runbooks, deployment documentation, and ADRs as part of the Definition of Done
• Support recruiting efforts by evaluating homework assignments and potentially assisting with interviews

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent additional experience in lieu of a degree
• Must meet federal suitability requirements and pass a background investigation as a condition of employment
• Hands-on experience with AWS services including EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, Lambda, and CloudWatch across multi-account environments
• Proficiency with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code provisioning and drift prevention
• Demonstrated experience building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines in GitLab
• Strong working knowledge of containerization using Docker and container orchestration on AWS ECS
• Familiarity with DevSecOps practices including SAST, dependency scanning, and automated vulnerability remediation
• Solid understanding of networking, virtualization, and cloud infrastructure fundamentals
• Experience managing infrastructure across 10+ AWS accounts with agency-level data isolation requirements
• Familiarity with Kubernetes or comparable container orchestration platforms
• Experience with observability tooling such as Grafana, New Relic, or CloudWatch synthetic monitoring
• Prior work in federal environments or familiarity with FedRAMP, FISMA, or ATO processes
• Experience supporting SAFe or scaled Agile delivery teams as a platform or infrastructure provider