DevOps Engineer IV — CI/CD Pipeline & Platform
Engineering

Job Number: 899

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 IV serves as a senior individual contributor and technical leader within a team, providing leadership, guidance, and mentoring to other engineers. You will be responsible for meeting scope, schedule, and delivery requirements, interacting with stakeholders, and driving improvements in DevOps processes and practices across the program. Primary expectations of a DevOps Engineer IV include:

• 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

Basic Qualifications

• 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 envir