Location: New York,NY, USA
Principal DevOps Engineer
We are continuously sourcing for talent while we await anticipated job openings. Candidates who apply to this role understand we may not have an immediate opening and wish to be considered for future opportunities.
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 Federal Civilian business unit supports a wide range of customers that span the federal, commercial, and nonprofit space. Our customers include the General Services Administration, Office of Personnel Management, Library of Congress, and the Social Security Administration. 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:
In this role, you will serve as a subject matter expert, while serving as an individual contributor that provides mentorship associated with engineering competencies. A Principal DevOps Engineer exhibits influential skills to shape future work streams within the current customer base, while maintaining a strategic vision to successfully pursue new business opportunities. With limited oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for cohesively integrating industry software engineering and DevOps trends and devising a plan for adoption within programs, as well as the business unit. A Principal DevOps Engineer serves as a representative of the business unit, effectively communicating strategies to a diverse audience. Primary expectations of a Principal DevOps Engineer include:
Serves as an expert in DevOps Engineering; providing organizational oversight of best practices
Exhibits a in-depth understanding of DevOps Engineering and utilizes their expertise to support the business unit via new business or organic growth opportunities
Demonstrates significant technical competence and ownership to broad audiences while driving progress on company strategic objectives within the business unit
Mentors, guides, and coaches other DevOps engineers at the company, with a focus on technical excellence and leadership
Architects and designs engineering tooling systems and cloud infrastructure that enable teams to scale quickly and reliably
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
Champions collaboration with teams across the business unit to identify DevOps needs and delivers solutions to advance medium and long-term technology goals
May support hiring, onboarding and career development activities
May represent the company publicly inclusive of writing blog posts, generating marketing materials, presenting at conferences, and taking part in panel discussions
May work cross-functionally to support data analytics activities within other business units
Understanding of the business unit's current labor mix, with the ability to identify primary skills and experiences; supports the key personnel identification process
Extensive understanding of government and practice market conditions in order to drive organizational improvements and innovation
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor's/ Master's degree in computer science or other highly technical, scientific disciplines and 10+ years of experience
Preferred Qualifications: PRINC001684
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Benefits:
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 theColorado 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 $140,000 - $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: PRINC001684
Qualifications Education Bachelors of Computer Science (preferred) Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)