Ad Hoc LLC

Research Scientist

• Serve as an experienced individual contributor within a team, with the expectation that you will further develop your leadership, guidance and mentoring skills
• Responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements
• Impacts the long-term goals of the program, while contributing to the development of the program's UX strategy
• May serve as the disciplines primary lead when working with stakeholders and utilize strong influential skills to drive improvements in UX processes and practices
• May lead cross functional efforts for delivery team members and team leads
• Navigates ambiguous requirements and environments to support delivery
• Leads the delivery of design work such as design initiative briefs, discovery artifacts, sketches, wireframes, UX flows, low and high fidelity prototypes, heuristic evaluations, competitive analysis, and design system contributions
• Plans, conducts, analyzes, and shares knowledge from research based on the teams questions and goals
• Influences and communicates research strategy for the program
• Delivers design work including discovery artifacts, sketches and rough prototypes, wireframes, UX flows, and high fidelity prototypes

Senior UX Designer, Researcher

Business Analyst

• Lead requirements management for a large federal enterprise cloud platform
• Translate mission and stakeholder needs into clear, actionable requirements
• Serve as a liaison between government stakeholders and delivery teams
• Participate in Scaled Agile (SAFe) ceremonies
• Produce clear documentation and translate complex requirements

Business Analyst – Requirements Engineer

Backend Engineer

• Software Engineer III - Full Stack serves as an emerging individual contributor within a team, expanding your leadership, guidance and mentoring skills.
• Estimates and completes development tasks including coding, requirements gathering, and analysis with a little feedback and guidance from their team.
• Practices technical and communications skills to improve context knowledge and mentor junior developers.
• Assesses and diagnoses issues with the systems they own, prioritizing problem areas based on alignment with other practice areas.
• Participates in on-call rotations with their team as necessary.
• Presents on and writes about their work to both internal and external parties.
• Participates in planning sessions, building an understanding of major architectures and design patterns.
• Supports recruiting efforts by evaluating homework assignments and potentially assisting with interviews.

Software Engineer III – Full Stack, Drupal

Product Designer

• Designer III serves as an emerging individual contributor within a team, expanding your leadership, guidance, and mentoring skills
• With the support and guidance of leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule, and delivery requirements
• You will interact with stakeholders and utilize influential skills to drive improvements in design processes and practices
• Deliver UX design work across program workstreams including discovery artifacts, user flows, wireframes, low and high fidelity prototypes, and usability testing plans in Figma using federal Design System components
• Serve as a subject matter expert on accessibility tools and techniques, annotating Figma designs with keyboard navigation, ARIA patterns, focus management, and screen reader labels before sprint planning
• Conduct stakeholder interviews, workflow observations, usability testing, and competitive analysis, synthesizing findings into actionable artifacts such as personas, journey maps, storyboards, and research reports
• Develop and implement design test cases and test plans, supporting validation of designs against WCAG 2.1 AA and Section 508 compliance standards
• Contribute to the Design System component library, proposing new patterns and visual design artifacts through the established governance workflow in collaboration with senior designers and frontend engineers
• Collaborate with engineers, QA, product owners, and accessibility specialists to validate designs for technical feasibility and Section 508 compliance before sprint commitment
• Develop and present compelling artifacts and presentations that translate complex regulatory and policy requirements into clear, user-centered design solutions for federal stakeholders
• Participate in iterative design activities including participatory design sessions, design critiques, and analysis and synthesis working sessions
• Proactively partner with Senior Designers, remaining receptive to mentorship while also coaching junior designers with actionable, growth-oriented feedback
• Identify design risks and communicate recommendations to mitigate them to program leadership
• May lead accessibility tasks including Section 508 compliance and emerging accessibility standards

Senior UX Designer

Systems Engineer

• Serve as an experienced individual contributor responsible for the operation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of the cloud infrastructure behind a large federal enterprise cloud platform
• Help meet scope, schedule, and delivery requirements while keeping the platform secure, stable, and performant around the clock
• Operating, maintaining, and hardening cloud infrastructure (AWS) and supporting systems across multiple environments
• Performing patching, upgrades, configuration management, and standardized baseline maintenance
• Supporting Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) infrastructure and core platform services
• Troubleshooting and resolving complex infrastructure, networking, and performance issues
• Automating infrastructure operations and configuration through infrastructure as code (Terraform)
• Supporting platform security and compliance, including ATO sustainment and audit readiness
• Self-directed design of cloud infrastructure and tradeoffs between cost, reliability, and efficiency
• Building reusable modules and mentoring engineers
• Participating in technical depth interviews with new candidates

Senior Systems Engineer

• Provide technical leadership for the operation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of cloud infrastructure (AWS) and supporting systems
• Lead and mentor a small team of engineers, including task coordination, guidance, and professional development
• Set technical direction and standards for systems engineering and operations and maintenance practices
• Perform and oversee patching, upgrades, configuration management, and standardized baseline maintenance
• Support Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) infrastructure and core platform services
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure, networking, and performance issues
• Automate infrastructure operations and configuration through infrastructure as code (Terraform)
• Support platform security and compliance, including ATO sustainment and audit readiness
• Support hiring, performance management, timecard reviews, PTO, and team development
• Participate in technical depth interviews with new candidates

Lead Systems Engineer

DevOps Engineer

• Serve as an experienced individual contributor responsible for the availability, performance, and reliability of a large federal enterprise cloud platform that operates around the clock
• Help meet scope, schedule, and delivery requirements while shaping the platform's reliability strategy
• Defining and maintaining service level objectives (SLOs), service level indicators, and error budgets, and driving the platform toward them
• Designing and operating observability across metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting
• Leading incident response and on-call practices, including escalation, mitigation, and time-to-recovery improvements
• Driving blameless postmortems and systemic reliability improvements
• Engineering automation to eliminate toil and improve operational efficiency
• Self-directed design of reliable cloud infrastructure (AWS) and Kubernetes (Amazon EKS)
• Building reusable modules and mentoring engineers on reliability practices
• Presenting design documents and system diagrams to stakeholders
• Participating in technical depth interviews with new candidates

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Platform Engineer

• Build and maintain the cloud infrastructure and self-service tooling that engineering teams rely on to deliver software for a large federal enterprise cloud platform
• Help meet scope, schedule, and delivery requirements while improving the developer experience across the platform
• Build and maintain cloud infrastructure (AWS) that supports hosted applications and improves the broader developer experience
• Develop reusable infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) modules so teams can provision standardized, compliant infrastructure
• Build and maintain standardized, paved-path CI/CD tooling and pipelines
• Provision and operate Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) infrastructure and cluster add-ons
• Integrate tooling to satisfy non-functional requirements such as quality thresholds, security vulnerabilities, and static analysis
• Complete cloud infrastructure and automated deployment tasks, expanding ownership over time
• Collaborate across teams to consolidate and simplify platform tools and services
• Work with government partners and application teams to ship software that meets security, SLA, and performance requirements
• Support recruiting efforts by evaluating exercises and assisting with interviews

• Serve as a platform automation and secure-delivery subject matter expert supporting a large federal enterprise cloud platform
• Design and operate secure, automated CI/CD pipelines
• Embed security across the pipeline
• Engineer and maintain infrastructure as code (Terraform)
• Build and harden containerized, Kubernetes-based deployments
• Apply zero-trust principles and support continuous Authority to Operate (ATO)
• Collaborate with government stakeholders and application teams
• Participate in technical depth interviews with new candidates

Senior DevSecOps Engineer

• Help ensure the availability, performance, and reliability of a large federal enterprise cloud platform
• Monitor platform health and support service level objectives (SLOs), service level indicators, and error budgets
• Build and maintain observability tooling, including metrics, logging, alerting, and dashboards
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response, helping restore service and reduce time to recovery
• Contribute to blameless postmortems and drive follow-up actions
• Automate repetitive operational tasks to reduce toil
• Support capacity planning and performance tuning across cloud infrastructure (AWS) and Kubernetes (Amazon EKS)
• Implement reliability improvements as infrastructure as code (Terraform)
• Work with government partners and application teams to meet security, SLA, and performance requirements
• Support recruiting efforts by evaluating exercises and assisting with interviews

Site Reliability Engineer

Security Engineer

• Design, implement, and operate identity, credential, and access management (ICAM) and public key infrastructure (PKI) capabilities
• Engineering and operating ICAM services, including authentication, authorization, federation, and single sign-on for platform applications
• Implementing and maintaining PKI, including certificate issuance, renewal, revocation, and key lifecycle management
• Integrating Personal Identity Verification (PIV) card-based authentication in accordance with HSPD-12 and FIPS 201
• Configuring and managing cloud identity and access management (AWS IAM), including roles, policies, and least-privilege access
• Applying federal identity standards and frameworks to platform design and operations
• Advancing zero-trust principles across identity and access controls
• Automating identity and access provisioning through infrastructure as code (Terraform)
• Producing technical documentation and translating complex identity and security concepts for stakeholders
• Working with government partners and application teams to meet security, compliance, and access requirements

PKI / IAM Security Engineer

• Serve as an experienced individual contributor responsible for the design, operation, and reliability of the container orchestration platform underpinning a large federal enterprise cloud platform
• Help meet scope, schedule, and delivery requirements while advancing the platform's Kubernetes practices
• Design, operate, and upgrade production Kubernetes clusters on Amazon EKS, including cluster add-ons (e.g., CoreDNS, kube-proxy, CNI)
• Manage cluster lifecycle, version currency, scaling, and standardized node baselines
• Engineer cluster networking, ingress, service mesh, and workload isolation across multiple environments
• Harden clusters and workloads to meet security and compliance requirements
• Automate cluster provisioning and configuration through infrastructure as code (Terraform)
• Self-directed design of cloud infrastructure and tradeoffs between cost, reliability, and efficiency
• Build reusable modules and improve the developer experience for engineers deploying to the platform
• Mentor engineers and present design documents and system diagrams to stakeholders
• Participate in technical depth interviews with new candidates

Senior Kubernetes, EKS Engineer

• Software Engineer III - Full Stack serves as an emerging individual contributor within a team, expanding your leadership, guidance and mentoring skills.
• Responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements.
• Interact with stakeholders and utilize influential skills to drive improvements in engineering processes and practices.
• Estimates and completes development tasks including coding, requirements gathering, and analysis with a little feedback and guidance from their team.
• Practices technical and communication skills to improve context knowledge and mentor junior developers.
• Assesses and diagnoses issues with the systems they own, prioritizing problem areas based on alignment with other practice areas.
• Participates in on-call rotations with their team as necessary.
• Presents on and writes about their work to both internal and external parties.
• Participates in planning sessions, building an understanding of major architectures and design patterns.
• Supports recruiting efforts by evaluating homework assignments and potentially assisting with interviews.
• Exhibits influential skills to drive improvements in team engineering processes and practices.
• Exhibits a comprehensive understanding of the business, how practices interact, and what customer problems we're solving.

Software Engineer III – Java, React, Microservices

Program Manager

• Serve as the primary decision maker for the program supporting a large federal enterprise cloud platform
• Collaborate with government and company leadership to shape direction, manage delivery, and ensure the program meets its scope, schedule, budget, and quality commitments
• Serve as the primary point of accountability for program delivery, performance, and customer satisfaction
• Manage contractual obligations, scope, schedule, budget, and resourcing
• Lead program planning, execution, communications, coordination, and reporting
• Manage and develop project managers and team leads
• Operate the program using Agile and Scaled Agile (SAFe) methodologies and cadence
• Identify and manage risks and implement mitigations
• Build and maintain strong relationships with government stakeholders
• Identify and drive growth opportunities
• Ensure adherence to quality, security, and compliance standards
• Responsible for hiring, performance management, timecard reviews, PTO management and team development

Senior Program Manager, Platform

Scrum Master

• Facilitate agile delivery for one or more teams supporting a large federal enterprise cloud platform
• Help teams plan, execute, and continuously improve within a Scaled Agile (SAFe) environment
• Remove impediments, coordinate across teams, and help ensure delivery meets scope, schedule, and quality commitments
• Facilitate agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily standups, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives
• Coach teams on agile and SAFe practices and fostering continuous improvement
• Identify and remove impediments and shielding teams from disruption
• Track and communicate delivery progress, risks, and dependencies to stakeholders
• Coordinate with product owners, project managers, and program leadership to align priorities
• Support PI planning and aligning team execution to program cadence
• Promote predictable, high-quality delivery and team health
• Proactively identifying risks and supporting mitigation with program leadership
• Communicate effectively with a variety of internal and external stakeholders
• Responsible for hiring, performance management, timecard reviews, PTO management and team development