Staff Software Engineer DevOps, CMS (remote)

This is a remote position.

Ad Hoc is a digital services company that helps the federal government better serve people. Our team of experts from across the commercial industry and government brings the modern skills necessary to help agencies transform public services into digital services. Our work enables agencies to meet the needs of their users while closing the gap between consumer expectations and government.

The CMS business unit covers our work with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, including HealthCare.gov, Medicare.gov, and the Blue Button API. Our team supports CMS in building and improving online public experiences and APIs that are reliable, accessible, and user-centered. We are deeply embedded within CMS, partnering agency-wide to include the Office of Communications, Office of Enterprise Data and Analytics, Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services, and Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. Our work includes helping millions of people enroll in healthcare and access Medicare and Medicaid benefits, as well as helping CMS improve the quality of Medicare and Medicaid services for beneficiaries and clinicians.

Ad Hoc is looking for a senior-level Staff DevOps Engineer. The ideal candidate will have deep experience developing and maintaining large-scale production platform systems in modern agile development environments. They know how to design and build mature, robust developer ecosystems. They’ve worked with multi-tenant systems and understand how they work under the hood. They’re comfortable building systems where developers will be the primary users, and they understand how to build relationships with those developer-users and application teams. They can write well-structured, tested, and secure application code with little feedback or guidance, preferably in a Rails-based environment, and they have the DevOps understanding to know how code gets to production these days.

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 You'll Do

Shipping software that impacts the lives of millions of people

Deploying cloud infrastructure within AWS to support APIs running on ECS/Fargate along with associated databases and ETL pipelines.

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

Building libraries, modules, and packages for other infrastructure engineers to integrate with their projects

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 You'll Bring

Five or more years of experience in software design and development, architecture, operations

Five years of experience with tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation

Five years of experience building optimized containers

Experience with Amazon Web Services, in particular ECS/Fargate, RDS, CloudWatch, IAM, EC2, and S3

Three years of experience with a programming language such as Java, Python, or Ruby

Experience working with Kafka and Docker

Experience with incident response, resolving availability and performance issues.

A focus on security and privacy, with experience protecting sensitive personal information.

Experience setting up CI/CD pipelines

Experience collaborating with other teams, adopting their goals as your own

Familiarity with static analysis tools and other CI tools used for security and compliance

Solid spelling, grammar, and communication skills

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

Some Basic Requirements

Years of Experience: 5 years

Degree Requirement: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Resource Management, Business Administration, Business Management,, Industrial Engineering, or a related field

Acceptable Substitution for Degree: Certifications in relevant technology plus 3-5 years of relevant experience, or 5-7 years of relevant experience may be substituted for education

Our Federal contracts require that you be a U.S. Citizen to be eligible for employment.

All work must be conducted within the U.S.

A desire to expand your skills and gain experience with new tooling as needed 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.

Learn more about engineering at Ad Hoc.

Benefits

Company-subsidized Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance

401K Plan

Unlimited Vacation

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.