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Staff DevOps Engineer - Site Reliability Engineer

Ad Hoc LLC
Los Angeles, California, US
$120K-$130K a year
Full-time

Staff DevOps Engineer

If you would like to know a bit more about this opportunity, or are considering applying, then please read the following job information.

This is a remote position.

Ad Hoc is a digital services company that helps the federal government better serve people. Our teams use modern, agile methods to meet the needs of our users while closing the gap between consumer expectations and government.

Work on things that matter

Our teams connect Veterans with services designed for their needs, help millions of people 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 thinks about and uses technology.

Built for a remote life

Ad Hoc is remote-first and remote-always. We've designed our culture, communications, and tools to support a nationwide team.

Being remote allows Ad Hoc to bring the best people onto our teams and give them the freedom to create a work environment that fits their lives.

Maybe you need to adjust your schedule to care for your family or take a bike ride. At Ad Hoc, that's welcomed.

Committed to high expectations and a welcoming culture

Ad Hoc values acceptance, accountability, and humility. We aren't heroes. We leave our egos at the door to learn from our mistakes and improve the process for the next time.

We build small, inclusive teams to bring the best of consumer technology to the problems of government.

The Veterans Affairs business unit helps transform the VA into a modern digital services organization where Veteran outcomes are at the center of every effort.

We partner with the VA to design and deliver seamless user experiences for Veterans, their families and caregivers, and VA employees.

By applying better practices in service design, product management, and technology, we enable VA to increase the usage, quality, and reliability of services and decrease the time Veterans spend waiting for outcomes.

Primary Responsibilities :

In this role, you will serve as an emerging subject matter expert, while serving as an individual contributor that exhibits a high level of trust, autonomy and empowerment.

With minimal oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for leading and monitoring the ability to meet scope, schedule and delivery requirements and may support adjacent programs with the business unit.

A Staff DevOps Engineer exhibits strong influential skills to represent the software engineering practice in planning sessions, advocating for the best technical solution, while communicating tradeoffs.

You will serve as the primary lead and proactively communicate with stakeholders; while utilizing strong influential skills to drive improvements in software engineering and DevOps processes and practices.

Primary expectations of a Staff DevOps Engineer include :

  • 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.

Basic Qualifications :

  • Bachelor's and 9+ years of experience.
  • Experience with general AWS infrastructure.
  • Experience with EKS, GitHub Actions, and ArgoCD.
  • This role has some on-call required.
  • Demonstrates expert-level knowledge in multiple infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. terraform, ansible).
  • Mastery of key DevOps concepts : installing software, virtualization, containerization, networking, etc.

Preferred Qualifications :

  • SRE experience with incident response and monitoring.
  • Ruby and JavaScript preferred.

Benefits :

  • Company-subsidized Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance.
  • Use What You Need Vacation Policy.
  • 401K with employer match.
  • Paid parental leave after one year of service.

Ad Hoc LLC is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination.

In support of the Colorado Equal Pay Transparency Act, and others like it across the country, Ad Hoc job descriptions feature the starting range we reasonably expect to pay to candidates who would join our team with little to no need for training on the responsibilities we've outlined above.

Actual compensation is influenced by a wide range of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and responsibility.

The range of starting pay for this role is $120,000 - $130,000. Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements.

Job reference : STAFF001537

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