Sr. Software Engineer DevOps, Veterans Affairs
Full Job Description
This is a fully remote position.
Work on things that matter
Ad Hoc is a digital services company that helps the federal government better serve people. Our teams use modern, agile methods to design and engineer government systems that connect Veterans with services, bring affordable health care to millions of people, and support important programs like Head Start. And as we work to make critical government services intuitive, accessible, and human-centered, we're also changing how the government thinks about and uses technology. If you thrive on change, want to help close the gap between consumer expectations and government services, and can see the possibilities in ambiguity, then we want you here with us.
What matters most
Ad Hoc operates according to our commitment to inclusivity, acceptance, accountability, and humility. We aren't heroes. We believe in missions larger than our individual selves and leave our egos at the door, learn from our mistakes, and iterate in order to better serve the people in our country. We prioritize building teams that represent the diversity of the people our government serves. We love the challenge of government-size projects. We want to bring skills to federal agencies, help them better meet the needs of their users, and close the gap between consumer expectations and government.
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 distributed team since the beginning. Being remote by design allows Ad Hoc to be thoughtful and intentional about creating diverse teams and supporting them with a work environment that fits their lives. With a generous PTO policy and Slack channels for every interest (from bird watching to space nerds to parenting) our culture embraces the things happening in your life. Maybe you need to adjust your schedule to care for your family or take a bike ride. At Ad Hoc, that's embraced.
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 Office of the Chief Technology Officer - Digital Experience, the Office of Information Technology, Veterans Health Administration and Veterans Benefits Administration 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, throughput, quality and reliability of services and decrease the time Veterans spend waiting for outcomes.
What you'll do
Our ideal DevOps Engineer will be an expert on implementing DevOps methodologies like Continuous Delivery, building tools and services to optimize the development feedback loop, and operating and configuring infrastructure as code to ensure we ship stable and performant services. We're looking for a driven and organized DevOps Engineer to help guide our teams in delivering the very best digital services for the public.
As an Ad Hoc DevOps Engineer, you'll be:
Shipping software that impacts the lives of millions of people
Building libraries, modules, and packages for other infrastructure engineers to integrate with their projects
Collaborating across teams to consolidate and simplify DevOps tools and services,
Developing Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) processes to help deliver software of higher quality at greater speed
Working closely with our government partners and app teams to ensure that we are shipping software that meets security, SLA, and performance requirements
Solving problems in ways that drive towards simplicity of architecture and operations
What we hope you'll bring
Eight years of experience in software design and development, architecture, operations
Experience with tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
Three years of development experience using scripting & programming languages like Bash, Java, Go, Python, Ruby
Experience setting up and monitoring CI/CD pipelines with Git
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes and optimizing containers
Observability and Monitoring tools such as Datadog or Jaeger
Experience with Amazon Web Services, such as EKS, ECS/Fargate, CloudWatch, IAM, EC2, and S3
Familiarity with static analysis tools and other CI tools used for security and compliance
Experience collaborating with other teams, adopting their goals as your own
Understanding of basic networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, UDP, routing, load balancing, SSH
Experience with one or more different agile methodologies such as Scrum, XP, or SAFe
A desire to expand your skills and gain experience with new tooling as needed
Solid spelling, grammar, and communication skills
Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S now and in the future without sponsorship
More than that, our ideal candidate wants to contribute to work that is bigger than themselves and wants to make a difference collaborating with their team. They care deeply about building better products, better relationships, and better trust in each interaction people have with their government. They believe in intuitive, easy-to-use government services. They collaborate well with designers, stakeholders, and other teams. They mentor and guide more junior engineers. They're human-centered.
And if you don't check every box on the list? That doesn't mean you can't help us in our mission to deliver critical government services. Talk to us!
Some basic requirements
Education: Bachelor's degree, Degree in computer science, electronics engineering or other engineering or technical discipline is required.
Years of Experience: 8 years -Substitutions: Additional 8 years of experience if the candidate does not have the degree (Total 16 years of experience)
All work must be conducted within the U.S., excluding U.S. territories. Some federal contracts require U.S. citizenship to be eligible for employment.
You must be legally authorized to work in the U.S now and in the future without sponsorship.
As a government contractor, you may be required to obtain a public trust security clearance.
Some of our available roles are on federal contracts that require a degree or additional years of experience as a substitute.
Our technical screening involves completing a homework assignment that is then graded blind to remove bias. We do not do tricky, unreliable whiteboarding tests. You can read more about our homework here.
Learn more about engineering at Ad Hoc.
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
Continuing education/annual conference attendance stipend
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 $113,900 - $149,040 and information on benefits offered is here. Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements.