Staff DevOps Engineer

Ad Hoc LLC is a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. In this role, the Staff DevOps Engineer will serve as a subject matter expert, leading technical strategy and improving software engineering and DevOps processes while mentoring team members.

Responsibilities:

• Strong influential skills to improve technical decision-making of clients through relationship-building, and to consolidate and simplify DevOps tools and services across multiple teams or programs
• Serves as a mentor to individuals across the team and an emerging people leader, exhibiting high levels of trust, autonomy, and empowerment
• Leads critical or cross-cutting team structures and projects
• Presents on technical topics effectively to clients, stakeholders, partners, and engineers, articulating implementation complexity and cost tradeoffs to inform business decisions
• Guides self-directed cloud infrastructure and pipeline design decisions made by others, weighing cost, reliability, and efficiency tradeoffs at a program level
• Guides the development and operation of the full lifecycle of the solution infrastructure, providing expertise in DevOps use of cloud-based services, defined using IaaC tooling
• Sets direction for libraries, modules, and packages that other infrastructure engineers build and integrate with across projects
• Ensures processes and design provide robust defense-in-depth through security best practices and that systems align with CMS/NIST quality and compliance standards so clients retain ATO
• Establishes and evolves CI/CD strategy — beyond building individual pipelines — to help the broader organization deliver software of higher quality at greater speed
• Ensures tooling is integrated to satisfy non-functional requirements such as quality thresholds, security vulnerabilities, and static analysis across programs
• Plans and executes migrations to cloud-native data services
• Actively participates in, and often leads, 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
• Proactively works with government partners and app teams to ensure software shipped across the program meets security, SLA, and performance requirements
• Effectively communicates on existing systems, design decisions, past performance, and project history for bid-writing, tech demos, and other client-facing communications
• Participates in technical depth interviews with new candidates, often shaping the technical bar for the discipline

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree and 9+ years of professional software engineering experience (or equivalent combination of education and experience)
• Expert-level mastery of core DevOps concepts: installing software, virtualization, containerization, networking, etc
• Expert-level knowledge of Terraform/Terragrunt, including module design and multi-environment state management at scale
• Expert-level knowledge of GitHub Actions and Argo CD, including designing and troubleshooting complex CI/CD pipelines across teams
• Expert-level knowledge of HAProxy/OpenResty in production environments
• Expert-level knowledge of AWS Cloud Services, including EKS/Kubernetes cluster architecture, workload scheduling, and lifecycle management
• Demonstrated experience leading infrastructure design decisions and communicating tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience ensuring systems meet CMS/NIST compliance standards to support client ATO retention
• U.S. citizenship or current legal authorization to work and reside in the United States without employer sponsorship is required. Candidates must also be able to successfully complete and maintain any required government background investigation as a condition of employment
• Comfort operating across both DevOps and SRE functions
• Expertise with observability tooling such as Datadog
• Experience with security tooling such as Trivy or Aqua
• Experience navigating the FedRAMP/ATO process
• Experience mentoring engineers