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Job Number: 778

This is a remote position.

Ad Hoc is a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. Using modern, agile methods, our team creates products that meet people’s needs and transform their experience of government.

Work on things that matter

Our collaborations have shaped some of the defining moments in public-sector service delivery. We’ve helped build products that connect Veterans to tailored services, help millions access affordable health care, and support important programs like Head Start. As we work with agencies to deliver critical services, we’re also changing how the government approaches technology.

Built for a remote life

Our culture, communications, and tools are built for remote work, enabling us to bring together top talent nationwide. At Ad Hoc, remote life empowers our teams to design work environments that fit their lives and that foster flexibility and collaboration to achieve positive outcomes for our customers.

Committed to high expectations and a welcoming culture

Ad Hoc values acceptance, accountability, and humility. We aren’t heroes. We learn from our mistakes and improve the process for the next time. We build small, inclusive teams to collaborate closely with our partners to solve the right problems and deliver software that works.

The Federal Civilian business unit supports many customers spanning the federal, commercial, and nonprofit space. Our customers include NASA, the General Services Administration, Office of Personnel Management, the Library of Congress, Health & Human Services, and the FDIC. We partner with these agencies to build new capabilities, deliver products, establish data as a strategic asset for informed decision-making, modernize legacy systems, and build the digital service infrastructure necessary to scale their mission impact.

Primary Responsibilities

DevOps Engineer III serves as an emerging individual contributor within a team, expanding your leadership, guidance, and mentoring skills. With the support and guidance of leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule, and delivery requirements. You will interact with stakeholders and utilize influential skills to drive improvements in DevOps processes and practices. Primary expectations of a DevOps Engineer III include:

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitLab, automate infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, and manage containerized deployments using Docker and AWS ECS
• Create and maintain shared deployment tooling, pipeline templates, and Terraform modules that delivery teams across the program consume as self-service infrastructure
• Integrate automated quality, security, and accessibility gates (SonarQube, SAST, container scanning, Trivy) into GitLab pipelines to enforce standards at every merge request
• Configure monitoring and observability tooling, including CloudWatch dashboards and synthetic canaries, to support production visibility across environments
• Support security vulnerability remediation by maintaining trusted base images, automating dependency updates via Renovatebot, and executing container scans in CI/CD pipelines
• Participate in on-call and production triage rotations, supporting Tier 2/3 incident response and BCDR activities
• Collaborate with cloud architects, backend engineers, and security teams to enforce infrastructure-as-code standards and prevent configuration drift
• Author and maintain runbooks, deployment documentation, and ADRs as part of the Definition of Done
• Support recruiting efforts by evaluating homework assignments and potentially assisting with interviews

Basic Qualifications

• 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 across multi-account environments
• Proficiency with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code provisioning and drift prevention
• Demonstrated experience building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines in GitLab
• Strong working knowledge of containerization using Docker and container orchestration on AWS ECS
• Familiarity with DevSecOps practices including SAST, dependency scanning, and automated vulnerability remediation
• Solid understanding of networking, virtualization, and cloud infrastructure fundamentals

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing infrastructure across 10+ AWS accounts with agency-level data isolation requirements
• Familiarity with Kubernetes or comparable container orchestration platforms
• Experience with observability tooling such as Grafana, New Relic, or CloudWatch synthetic monitoring
• 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

To learn more about working at Ad Hoc, please visit:https://adhocteam.us/join

Benefits:

• Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance


• Flexible PTO


• 401K with employer match


• Paid parental leave after one year of service


• Employee Assistance Program

Ad Hoc LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination.

We value the unique skills gained through military service and encourage veterans and transitioning service members to apply.

In support of various state and city equal pay transparency laws, Ad Hoc job descriptions feature the starting range we reasonably expect to pay to candidates who would join our team with little to no need for training on the responsibilities we've outlined above. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide range of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and responsibility. The range of starting pay for this role is $125,000 - $142,000. Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements.