DevOps Engineer III — Cloud Automation & Orchestration

Ad Hoc LLC is a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. The DevOps Engineer III will be responsible for automating AWS infrastructure, developing CI/CD templates, and supporting incident response while collaborating with stakeholders to improve DevOps processes.

Responsibilities:

• Automate AWS infrastructure provisioning and administrative tasks using Terraform and serverless Lambda functions (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM roles)
• Develop and maintain Helm charts and declarative configurations to standardize EKS-based deployments
• Build reusable CI/CD templates in GitLab CI/Jenkins for adoption across 5+ AppDev workstreams
• Script automation in Python, Bash, or Go to replace repetitive manual steps with code
• Implement monitoring instrumentation and dashboards (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana); assist in configuring alerts and chat-based system notifications
• Work with developers to debug local environment setups and resolve application-level pipeline issues
• Support cost optimization through right-sizing, reserved instances, and storage audits
• 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 Helm and Kubernetes (EKS) deployment experience
• Proficiency scripting in Python, Bash, or Go
• 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 building automated continuous deployment workflows using Git
• Working knowledge of AWS networking (subnets, routing tables)
• Demonstrated deployment-time or cost reductions from automation