DevOps Engineer IV – Operational Resilience, Observability, SRE

Ad Hoc LLC

Senior DevOps Engineer at Ad Hoc working remotely and leading DevOps practices across teams. Responsible for overseeing application performance, monitoring, and engineering guidance in the federal sector.

Posted 7/15/2026full-timeRemote • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $120,000 - $150,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive expertise in AWS, Terraform, and CI/CD pipeline design, with a strong focus on performance monitoring and incident response for high-availability cloud-native services. Proven ability to lead and mentor engineering teams while implementing DevOps best practices and disaster recovery planning.

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AWS CloudWatchTerraformCI/CD Pipeline DesignDocker ContainerizationDevSecOps Practices

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Hard Skills

AWSTerraformGitGitLabCI/CDDockerECSEKSSREBCDR Planning

Soft Skills

Excellent CommunicationDocumentation SkillsCollaboration

Tools & Technologies

PrometheusGrafanaJira Service DeskServiceNowMicrosoft TeamsAWS Chatbot

Industry Keywords

DevOpsAgileSAFeIncident ResponseHigh-Availability Services

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDockerGrafanaJenkinsPrometheusServiceNowTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

DevOps Engineer IV serves as a senior individual contributor and technical leader within a team, providing leadership, guidance, and mentoring to other engineers.
You will be responsible for meeting scope, schedule, and delivery requirements, interacting with stakeholders, and driving improvements in DevOps processes and practices across the program.
Set up and operate monitoring and observability tooling (AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki log aggregation) for real-time visibility into application health, performance, and infrastructure
Build and maintain "Golden Signals" performance dashboards measuring latency, traffic, errors, and saturation
Implement the DORA metrics roadmap using Grafana and GitLab analytics to establish performance baselines
Manage Tier 2/3 production support within strict SLAs: 1-hour initial response, 4-hour critical resolution, 99.9% uptime commitment
Author Root Cause Analyses within 3 business days of any severity-1 production outage; maintain on-call runbooks and change correlation
Author and maintain the BCDR plan, including recovery architecture and RTO targets, cross-region replication (RDS, S3), Route 53 routing, and Secrets Manager; coordinate biannual failover drills
Configure centralized alerting and incident tooling (Jira Service Desk/ServiceNow, Microsoft Teams, AWS Chatbot)
Implement AWS Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing; deliver sprint performance reports and cost-optimization recommendations
Support recruiting efforts by evaluating homework assignments and potentially assisting with interviews

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree and 8+ 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
5+ years of hands-on experience with AWS, Terraform (or similar IaC), and Git/GitLab in production environments
Experience supporting 5 or more engineering teams from a shared DevOps/platform function
Demonstrated experience designing and building CI/CD pipelines in GitLab and/or Jenkins, including quality and security gates
Strong working knowledge of containerization using Docker and orchestration on AWS ECS/EKS/Fargate
Familiarity with DevSecOps practices including SAST, dependency scanning, and automated vulnerability remediation
Excellent communication and documentation skills; comfortable in a highly collaborative Agile/SAFe environment
Proven experience in SRE, production operations, or incident response for mission-critical, high-availability cloud-native services
BCDR planning and disaster recovery exercise experience

Benefits

Comp & perks

Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance
Flexible PTO
401K with employer match
Paid parental leave after one year of service
Employee Assistance Program