Engineer Lead (Remote)

Ad Hoc•Atlanta, GA

12h•$160,000 - $180,000•Remote

About The Position

Engineer Lead This is a remote position with heavy travel during the first 3-6 months 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 peoples 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. Weve 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, were 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 arent 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.

Requirements

Bachelors degree and 9+ years of experience
Relevant years of experience may be substituted for education
Ability to design and review complex automation services, internal APIs, and tooling that streamline deployments, platform operations, and AI-driven workflows. Guides teams in standardized patterns for automation, data integration, and platform observability
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation)
Deep experience architecting IaC patterns for large-scale cloud environments. Ability to set organization-wide standards for provisioning, configuration, compliance enforcement, and environment lifecycle management. Leads the shift toward fully automated, reproducible, policy-driven infrastructure.
Event-Driven Architecture Expertise (Kafka, AWS EventBridge, Azure Event Hubs)
Designs and governs real-time event pipelines supporting: AI/ML triggers High-frequency social/media data ingestion Real-time system monitoring and health automation Platform-wide event-driven workflows Mentors teams on building durable, scalable streaming systems
Cloud & Container Platform Mastery (AWS, Azure, or GCP + Docker + Kubernetes)
Expert-level experience running production workloads in Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE) Strong foundation in cloud networking, multi-region high availability, service mesh, autoscaling, and secure distributed architecture
CI/CD Architecture Leadership (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar)
Ability to architect and standardize enterprise CI/CD frameworks enabling rapid, safe delivery Skilled in automated testing, security gates, policy-as-code, and zero-downtime deployment strategies
Observability & Reliability Engineering (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, ELK)
Defines organizational SLIs/SLOs and implements resilient monitoring, alerting, and automated remediation Leads incident response and ensures long-term reliability improvements
Leadership & People Management Experience managing DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering teams, including hiring, mentoring, and performance management Strength in stakeholder communication and cross-team technical alignment Ability to establish a strategic platform roadmap that supports emerging AI and data capabilities

Nice To Haves

Security & Compliance Automation (FedRAMP, NIST, Zero Trust) - Experience embedding automated controls, scanning, and compliance policies into CI/CD and runtime environments
Workflow Orchestration (Airflow, Prefect) - Useful for managing complex operational tasks, data processing pipelines, and platform automation efforts
Healthcare Interoperability Experience (FHIR, HL7) - Helpful for data exchange and system-integration needs across HHS
Program-Level Platform Strategy - Experience defining cross-cutting platform modernization plans spanning infrastructure, automation, data, and AI readiness

Responsibilities

Cloud-native infrastructure design and automation
Kubernetes-based compute platforms
Enterprise CI/CD modernization
Observability, reliability, and automated recovery frameworks
Secure environments optimized for AI, high-velocity data, and modern application architectures
Define and enforce standards for Infrastructure as Code, enabling the organization to operate with full automation, consistency, and auditability across environments.
Ensures infrastructure is versioned, tested, policy-validated, and easily scalable.
Rapidly integrate new data sources and AI capabilities
Scale to support national-level communication and analytical workloads
Operate with resilience, security, and reliability
Innovate quickly while maintaining trust and performance