DevOps Engineer III

Ad Hoc is a technology company that delivers scalable digital services for government organizations. The DevOps Engineer III supports cloud infrastructure, automated deployments, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps process improvements while collaborating with engineering teams and government partners to meet security, service-level, and performance requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Exhibits influential skills to collaborate across teams to consolidate and simplify DevOps tools and services
• Exhibits the ability to solve problems in ways that drive towards simplicity of architecture and operations
• Capable of completing cloud infrastructure and automated deployment tasks at the direction of a senior engineer
• 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
• Supports 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, Circle CI, Gitlab CI
• Progressive experience working with our government partners and app teams to ensure that we are shipping software that meets security, SLA, and performance requirements

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of professional software engineering experience (or equivalent combination of education and experience)
• Hands-on production experience with AWS as a primary cloud provider
• Working proficiency with Kubernetes (EKS or equivalent) — deploying, troubleshooting, and managing containerized workloads
• Proficient with Terraform (or comparable IaC tool) for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar
• Comfortable working in a Linux environment (shell scripting, systemd, networking basics, package management)
• Background in key DevOps concepts: containerization, virtualization, networking, load balancing/reverse proxies
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Team player who can work with other engineers to resolve issues
• Ability to clearly explain technical decisions and tradeoffs regarding complex infrastructure to teammates and stakeholders
• Contributes meaningfully to planning discussions
• U.S. citizenship or current legal authorization to work and reside in the United States without employer sponsorship is required
• Direct experience with Terragrunt for managing multi-environment/multi-account Terraform configurations
• Experience with Argo CD / Argo Workflows (or other GitOps deployment tooling)
• Familiarity with HAProxy and/or OpenResty (or comparable reverse proxy / API gateway tools like NGINX, Envoy, Kong)
• Proficiency with at least one scripting/coding language (Go, Bash, Python, etc.)
• Experience with GitHub Actions specifically (reusable workflows, composite actions, self-hosted runners)
• Experience integrating security/quality tooling into pipelines (SAST/DAST, dependency scanning)
• Experience working within federal/government IT environments (ATO processes, FedRAMP, STIGs, or similar compliance frameworks)
• Experience building internal developer platforms or "golden path" tooling to improve developer experience
• Experience with observability stacks (Datadog, CloudWatch)
• Progressive experience working with our government partners and app teams to ensure that we are shipping software that meets security, SLA, and performance requirements