DevOps Engineer III, Deployment, Release Safety & Disaster Recovery

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⚔️ Virginia – Remote

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

💵 $110k - $140k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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Ad Hoc LLC

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2014

🏛️ Government

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🔌 API

Government • Artificial Intelligence • API

Ad Hoc LLC is a technology consulting firm that modernizes digital government services through human-centered design, platform and mobile development, and systems transformation. The company specializes in data interoperability, API infrastructure, DevOps and cybersecurity practices, and AI-driven/agentic automation to help federal, state, and local agencies scale services, reduce costs, and improve user experiences. Notable work includes large-scale Medicare enrollment processing, the VA Health and Benefits mobile app, and enabling access to billions of health claims via modern APIs.

📋 Description

• DevOps Engineer III serves as an emerging individual contributor within a team, expanding your leadership, guidance, and mentoring skills. • 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. • 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 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

🏖️ 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