Principal DevOps Engineer

Principal DevOps Engineer

We are continuously sourcing for talent while we await anticipated job openings. Candidates who apply to this role understand we may not have an immediate opening and wish to be considered for future opportunities.

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

Principal DevOps Engineer serves as a subject matter expert, while serving as an individual contributor that provides mentorship associated with engineering competencies. A Principal DevOps Engineer exhibits influential skills to shape future work streams within the current customer base, while maintaining a strategic vision to successfully pursue new business opportunities. With limited oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for cohesively integrating industry software engineering and DevOps trends and devising a plan for adoption within programs, as well as the business unit. A Principal DevOps Engineer serves as a representative of the business unit, effectively communicating strategies to a diverse audience. Primary expectations of a Principal DevOps Engineer include:

• Serves as an expert in DevOps Engineering; providing organizational oversight of best practices
• Exhibits a in-depth understanding of DevOps Engineering and utilizes their expertise to support the business unit via new business or organic growth opportunities
• Demonstrates significant technical competence and ownership to broad audiences while driving progress on company strategic objectives within the business unit
• Mentors, guides, and coaches other DevOps engineers at the company, with a focus on technical excellence and leadership
• Architects and designs engineering tooling systems and cloud infrastructure that enable teams to scale quickly and reliably
• 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
• Champions collaboration with teams across the business unit to identify DevOps needs and delivers solutions to advance medium and long-term technology goals
• May support hiring, onboarding and career development activities
• May represent the company publicly inclusive of writing blog posts, generating marketing materials, presenting at conferences, and taking part in panel discussions
• May work cross-functionally to support data analytics activities within other business units
• Understanding of the business unit's current labor mix, with the ability to identify primary skills and experiences; supports the key personnel identification process
• Extensive understanding of government and practice market conditions in order to drive organizational improvements and innovation

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's and 11+ years of experience
• Extensive experience with large systems, leading large teams, and understanding interactions between people, systems, and processes
• In addition to expectations for Staff DevOps Engineer, awareness of new industry trends in DevOps tools and concepts
• processes AWS security best practices, DevSecOps tooling, and vulne