Senior DevOps Engineer

Ad Hoc is a technology company that delivers scalable digital services for government organizations, including the Department of Veterans Affairs. The Senior DevOps Engineer will provide experienced individual-contributor leadership in DevOps and software engineering strategy, designing cloud infrastructure and pipelines, improving engineering practices, mentoring team members, and ensuring software meets security, SLA, and performance requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Strong influential skills to collaborate across teams to consolidate and simplify DevOps tools and services
• Serves as a mentor to individuals within the team
• May leads small, less critical, or temporary team structures and projects
• Presents design documents, system diagrams, etc. to clients, stakeholders, partners, and other engineers
• 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, and ArgoCDCircle CI, Gitlab CI
• Proactively works with our government partners and app teams to ensure that we are shipping software that meets security, SLA, and performance requirements
• Participates in technical depth interviews with new candidates

Requirements:

• • Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of professional software engineering experience (or equivalent combination of education and experience)
• • Expertise in key DevOps concepts: installing software, virtualization, containerization, networking, etc
• • Demonstrates expert-level knowledge in Terraform/Terragrunt
• • Demonstrates expert-level knowledge in GitHub Actions and Argo CD
• • Demonstrates expert-level knowledge in HAProxy/OpenResty
• • Demonstrates expert-level knowledge in AWS Cloud Services, including EKS/Kubernetes
• • U.S. citizenship or current legal authorization to work and reside in the United States without employer sponsorship is required
• • Comfort level with both DevOps and SRE functions
• • Expertise with observability using Datadog
• • Experience with security tooling using Trivy, Aqua
• • Experience with Fedramp/ATO process