DevOps Engineer IIIThis is a remote position.Job ID #909The
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 the VA to increase the use, quality, and reliability of services and decrease the time Veterans spend waiting for outcomes.
Primary ResponsibilitiesIn this role, you will serve as an emerging individual contributor within a team, expanding your leadership, guidance and mentoring skills. With the support and guidance of leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements. You will interact with stakeholders and utilize influential skills to drive improvements in DevOps processes and practices.
Primary responsibilities include:- Exhibits influential skills to collaborate across teams to consolidate and simplify DevOps tools and services
- Exhibits the ability to solve problems in ways that drive towards simplicity of architecture and operations
- Capable of completing cloud infrastructure and automated deployment tasks at the direction of a senior engineer
- Builds libraries, modules, and packages for other infrastructure engineers to integrate with their projects
- Builds cloud infrastructure that supports applications and Improves the broader developer experience for engineers
- Supports CI/CD processes to help deliver software of higher quality at greater speed
- Integrates tools to satisfy non-functional requirements such as quality thresholds, security vulnerabilities, and static analysis
- Builds specific application test and deployment pipelines using automated tooling such as Jenkins, Github Actions, Circle CI, Gitlab CI
- Progressive experience working with our government partners and app teams to ensure that we are shipping software that meets security, SLA, and performance requirements
Basic Qualifications - Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of professional software engineering experience (or equivalent combination of education and experience)
- Hands-on production experience with AWS as a primary cloud provider
- Working proficiency with Kubernetes (EKS or equivalent) - deploying, troubleshooting, and managing containerized workloads
- Proficient with Terraform (or comparable IaC tool) for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar
- Comfortable working in a Linux environment (shell scripting, systemd, networking basics, package management)
- Background in key DevOps concepts: containerization, virtualization, networking, load balancing/reverse proxies
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Team player who can work with other engineers to resolve issues
- Ability to clearly explain technical decisions and tradeoffs regarding complex infrastructure to teammates and stakeholders
- Contributes meaningfully to planning discussions
- Reliably performs DevOps support rotation (business hours) and on-call responsibility (beyond business hours)
- U.S. citizenship or current legal authorization to work and reside in the United States without employer sponsorship is required. Candidates must also be able to successfully complete and maintain any required government background investigation as a condition of employment.
Preferred Qualifications- Direct experience with Terragrunt for managing multi-environment/multi-account Terraform configurations
- Experience with Argo CD / Argo Workflows (or other GitOps deployment tooling)
- Familiarity with HAProxy and/or OpenResty (or comparable reverse proxy / API gateway tools like NGINX, Envoy, Kong)
- Proficiency with at least one scripting/coding language (Go, Bash, Python, etc.)
- Experience with GitHub Actions specifically (reusable workflows, composite actions, self-hosted runners)
- Experience integrating security/quality tooling into pipelines (SAST/DAST, dependency scanning)
- Experience working within federal/government IT environments (ATO processes, FedRAMP, STIGs, or similar compliance frameworks)
- Experience building internal developer platforms or "golden path" tooling to improve developer experience
- Experience with observability stacks (Datadog, CloudWatch)
To learn more about working at Ad Hoc, please visit:https://adhocteam.us/join
Benefits:- Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance
- Flexible PTO
- 401K with employer match
- Paid parental leave after one year of service
- Employee Assistance Program
job reference:
https://adhoc.team/
