Staff DevOps Engineer

Ad Hoc LLC is a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. They are seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to lead and monitor the development of a secure Cloud platform, automate infrastructure provisioning, and improve software engineering and DevOps processes. The role requires strong influential skills and the ability to communicate effectively with 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

Requirements:

• Bachelor's and 9+ years of experience
• 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)