DevOps Engineer IV — CI/CD Pipeline & Platform Engineering

Ad Hoc LLC is a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. The DevOps Engineer IV will serve as a senior individual contributor and technical leader, responsible for designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, mentoring other engineers, and driving improvements in DevOps processes across the program.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines in GitLab CI and Jenkins with build-once promotion patterns, fail-fast verification, and automated rollbacks across dev, staging, and production
• Create and maintain shared deployment tooling, reusable GitLab CI templates, and Terraform modules that 5+ AppDev delivery teams consume as self-service infrastructure
• Maintain standard, secure base Docker images for Java, Python, and Angular applications; deploy containers on AWS ECS, EKS, or Fargate with zero-downtime patterns
• Enforce pipeline security and quality gates (Trivy container scanning, SonarQube static analysis, Open Policy Agent policy-as-code) at the commit/merge stage
• Mitigate over-privileged IAM configurations using least-privilege standards without disrupting active production services
• Develop the roadmap for and implement DORA metrics (Deployment Frequency, Change Lead Time, Change Failure Rate, MTTR) in the program's CI/CD capabilities
• Author and maintain runbooks, deployment documentation, and architecture documentation; lead knowledge-transfer sessions with engineering teams
• Participate in SAFe ceremonies including PI planning, dependency management, and CI/CD roadmap development
• Support recruiting efforts by evaluating homework assignments and potentially assisting with interviews

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree and 8+ 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
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with AWS, Terraform (or similar IaC), and Git/GitLab in production environments
• Experience supporting 5 or more engineering teams from a shared DevOps/platform function
• Demonstrated experience designing and building CI/CD pipelines in GitLab and/or Jenkins, including quality and security gates
• Strong working knowledge of containerization using Docker and orchestration on AWS ECS/EKS/Fargate
• Familiarity with DevSecOps practices including SAST, dependency scanning, and automated vulnerability remediation
• Excellent communication and documentation skills; comfortable in a highly collaborative Agile/SAFe environment
• Deep expertise designing reusable CI/CD templates and Terraform module libraries consumed by multiple teams
• 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 with multi-account AWS topologies (Transit Gateway vs. VPC Peering)
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional or similar certifications
• Experience implementing DORA metrics programs