DevOps Engineer III — Deployment, Release Safety & Disaster Recovery

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.

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.

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.

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.

• →Manage blue/green and linear application rollouts with automated rollback to ensure zero-downtime production deployments
• →Build and maintain cost-optimization scripts using AWS Compute Optimizer and Cost Explorer to flag and clean up idle resources and orphaned volumes
• →Validate data encryption controls at rest (KMS) and in transit (TLS) across databases and cloud storage
• →Build and maintain authentication and access-control infrastructure supporting deployments, applying IAM least-privilege policies
• →Expand Terraform/IaC coverage across AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, Lambda, and IAM
• →Support the observability/SRE lead during disaster recovery failover exercises; execute and document DR testing and maintain runbook accuracy
• →Provide deployment support to AppDev teams; maintain deployment runbooks as part of the Definition of Done
• →Participate in on-call and production triage rotations, supporting Tier 2/3 incident response

• 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
• Proficiency with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code provisioning and drift prevention
• Demonstrated experience building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines in GitLab and/or Jenkins
• Strong working knowledge of containerization using Docker and container orchestration on AWS ECS/EKS/Fargate
• Familiarity with DevSecOps practices including SAST, dependency scanning, and automated vulnerability remediation
• Solid understanding of networking, virtualization, and cloud infrastructure fundamentals
• Hands-on experience with deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, linear) and rollback automation

• 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
• Familiarity with Kubernetes or comparable container orchestration platforms
• Experience configuring data encryption at rest (KMS) and in transit (TLS)
• Disaster recovery testing and execution experience
• CloudFormation experience alongside Terraform