DevOps Engineer III — Deployment, Release Safety & Disaster Recovery

Ad Hoc LLC is a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. The DevOps Engineer III will be responsible for managing application rollouts, supporting disaster recovery exercises, and driving improvements in DevOps processes while collaborating with stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Manage blue/green and linear application rollouts with automated rollback to ensure zero-downtime production deployments
• Build and maintain cost-optimization scripts using AWS Compute Optimizer and Cost Explorer to flag and clean up idle resources and orphaned volumes
• Validate data encryption controls at rest (KMS) and in transit (TLS) across databases and cloud storage
• Build and maintain authentication and access-control infrastructure supporting deployments, applying IAM least-privilege policies
• Expand Terraform/IaC coverage across AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, Lambda, and IAM
• Support the observability/SRE lead during disaster recovery failover exercises; execute and document DR testing and maintain runbook accuracy
• Provide deployment support to AppDev teams; maintain deployment runbooks as part of the Definition of Done
• Participate in on-call and production triage rotations, supporting Tier 2/3 incident response

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
• Proficiency with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code provisioning and drift prevention
• Demonstrated experience building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines in GitLab and/or Jenkins
• Strong working knowledge of containerization using Docker and container orchestration on AWS ECS/EKS/Fargate
• Familiarity with DevSecOps practices including SAST, dependency scanning, and automated vulnerability remediation
• Solid understanding of networking, virtualization, and cloud infrastructure fundamentals
• Hands-on experience with deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, linear) and rollback automation
• 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
• Familiarity with Kubernetes or comparable container orchestration platforms
• Experience configuring data encryption at rest (KMS) and in transit (TLS)
• Disaster recovery testing and execution experience
• CloudFormation experience alongside Terraform