Evergreen: Staff DevOps and Systems Integration Engineer

Ad Hoc•Columbia, MD

3d•Remote

About The 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.

Requirements

Bachelor's and 9+ years of experience
Relevant years of experience may be substituted for education
Demonstrates expert-level knowledge in at least one infrastructure-as-code tool (e.g. terraform, ansible)
Expertise in key DevSecOps concepts: installing software, virtualization, containerization, networking, etc.
Mastery of key DevOps concepts: installing software, virtualization, containerization, networking, etc.
Demonstrates expert-level knowledge in at least one technical area (including but not limited to frontend, backend, or infrastructure engineering)

Nice To Haves

Expertise in cloud-native architecture, container orchestration (Kubernetes, AKS/EKS/GKE), hybrid connectivity, and disaster recovery configuration.
Strong analytical skills for performance optimization and FinOps reporting.
Terraform (expert)
HashiCorp Vault (expert)
AWS/Azure (certification required)
Git/GitHub (for version control)
Jenkins/GitLab CI/CD
Python (for scripting).
Full-stack application development experience (back-end focus strongly preferred).
Proficiency in API-first development, systems integration, and complex troubleshooting.
Excellent technical writing and communication skills (DevRel/DevEx).
Go/Java/Node.js (API development)
Python/Ruby (scripting)
PostgreSQL/NoSQL databases
experience with API Gateways (e.g., Kong, Apigee)
Jira/Confluence (expert-level scripting/configuration for JIRA migration and maintenance).

Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate the scalable, secure Cloud platform and its services.
Automate infrastructure provisioning via IaC and integrate pipelines.
Ensure platform stability, high availability, and optimal cost management.
Writing and maintaining Terraform modules to manage cloud landing zones.
Developing reusable CI/CD pipeline templates for microservices and API services.
Configuring and monitoring platform observability
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, Circle CI, Gitlab CI
Foster adoption of new platform tools and services by providing comprehensive documentation, training, and support.
Maintains a high-level understanding of adjacent technical areas and ecosystems to effectively coordinate integration with those systems
Strong influential skills to improve technical decision-making of clients through relationship-building
Presents on technical topics effectively, articulating implementation complexity and other costs to inform business decisions
Emerging people leader/mentor that exhibits high levels of trust, autonomy, and empowerment
Guides the development and operation of the full lifecycle of the solution infrastructure
Provides expertise in DevOps use of cloud-based services, defined using IaaC tooling
Ensures processes and design provide robust defense-in-depth through security best-practices
Ensures that systems operate smoothly and align with CMS/NIST quality and compliance standards so clients retain ATO
Plans and executes migrations to cloud-native data services
Actively participates in conversations and planning sessions with partners and key stakeholders
Periodically travels to work with and present to clients, partners, and stakeholders
Elaborates on and evolves complex and ambiguous products to uncover constraints and new opportunities
Effectively communicates on existing systems, design decisions, past performance, and a major history of the projects that they’ve been part of for bid-writing, tech demos, and other potentially client-facing communications
Participates in technical depth interviews with new candidates