DevOps Engineer IV - CI/CD Pipeline & Platform
Engineering
Job Number: 899

This is a remote position.

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
DevOps Engineer IV serves as a senior individual contributor and technical leader within a team, providing leadership, guidance, and mentoring to other engineers. You will be responsible for meeting scope, schedule, and delivery requirements, interacting with stakeholders, and driving improvements in DevOps processes and practices across the program. Primary expectations of a DevOps Engineer IV include:

• Design, build, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines in GitLab CI and Jenkins with build-once promotion patterns, fail-fast verification, and automated rollbacks across dev, staging, and production
• Create and maintain shared deployment tooling, reusable GitLab CI templates, and Terraform modules that 5+ AppDev delivery teams consume as self-service infrastructure
• Maintain standard, secure base Docker images for Java, Python, and Angular applications; deploy containers on AWS ECS, EKS, or Fargate with zero-downtime patterns
• Enforce pipeline security and quality gates (Trivy container scanning, SonarQube static analysis, Open Policy Agent policy-as-code) at the commit/merge stage
• Mitigate over-privileged IAM configurations using least-privilege standards without disrupting active production services
• Develop the roadmap for and implement DORA metrics (Deployment Frequency, Change Lead Time, Change Failure Rate, MTTR) in the program's CI/CD capabilities
• Author and maintain runbooks, deployment documentation, and architecture documentation; lead knowledge-transfer sessions with engineering teams
• Participate in SAFe ceremonies including PI planning, dependency management, and CI/CD roadmap development
• Support recruiting efforts by evaluating homework assignments and potentially assisting with interviews

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 8+ 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
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with AWS, Terraform (or similar IaC), and Git/GitLab in production environments
• Experience supporting 5 or more engineering teams from a shared DevOps/platform function
• Demonstrated experience designing and building CI/CD pipelines in GitLab and/or Jenkins, including quality and security gates
• Strong working knowledge of containerization using Docker and orchestration on AWS ECS/EKS/Fargate
• Familiarity with DevSecOps practices including SAST, dependency scanning, and automated vulnerability remediation
• Excellent communication and documentation skills; comfortable in a highly collaborative Agile/SAFe environment
• Deep expertise designing reusable CI/CD templates and Terraform module libraries consumed by multiple teams

Preferred Qualifications

• 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 with multi-account AWS topologies (Transit Gateway vs. VPC Peering)
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional or similar certifications
• Experience implementing DORA metrics programs

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

In support of various state and city equal pay transparency laws, 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-$150,000. 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:

https://adhoc.team/