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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