Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ad Hoc LLC is a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. They are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to support the modernization of enterprise-scale systems and infrastructure for NASA programs, focusing on infrastructure automation, deployment modernization, and cloud engineering.
Responsibilities
- Lead and support DevOps initiatives across enterprise applications and backend systems
- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and release processes
- Support cloud and hybrid-cloud infrastructure modernization efforts
- Improve system reliability, observability, monitoring, and operational efficiency
- Develop and maintain infrastructure as code and automation frameworks
- Support application deployments, production troubleshooting, and continuous improvement initiatives
- Design, develop, and maintain Java-based backend services and integrations
- Build and support RESTful APIs and distributed system integrations
- Collaborate with engineers, product teams, QA, DevOps, and client stakeholders in agile environments
- Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, and technical planning activities
- Contribute to software engineering and DevOps best practices across the program
Skills
- 8+ years of software engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, or related experience and a Bachelor's degree, or equivalent additional experience in lieu of a degree
- Strong hands-on experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and cloud infrastructure
- Experience supporting cloud-native environments using AWS or similar cloud platforms
- Familiarity with modern DevOps and platform engineering tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or similar technologies
- Experience implementing infrastructure automation, containerization, and Infrastructure as Code practices in enterprise environments
- Experience supporting application deployment, release management, and operational excellence initiatives across software delivery teams
- 5+ years of hands-on Java development experience
- Strong experience with Spring Framework and RESTful web services
- Experience supporting enterprise applications in production environments
- Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills across application and infrastructure layers
- Experience working within agile software development teams
- Ability to obtain and maintain a government clearance
- Ability to travel onsite to a NASA location for badging and program support
- Strong preference for candidates who can work onsite in Greenbelt, MD as needed
- Experience supporting NASA or federal civilian agencies
- Experience modernizing legacy enterprise systems
- Experience with event-driven architectures and distributed systems
- Experience with Spring Batch
- Experience working within government consulting or federal contracting environments
- Experience supporting cloud or hybrid-cloud environments
- Experience establishing or leading DevOps practices across engineering organizations
- Experience with AWS services commonly used in modern application and infrastructure environments
- Experience with platform engineering concepts, developer enablement, and internal developer platforms
- Experience implementing observability, monitoring, logging, and performance management solutions
- Familiarity with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk, Datadog, or similar monitoring platforms
Benefits
- Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance
- Flexible PTO
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave after one year of service
- Employee Assistance Program
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