Engineer Lead - Atlanta, GA

Engineer Lead · This is a remote position with heavy travel during the first 3-6 months · Ad Hoc is a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. Using modern, agile methods, our team creates products that meet people�s needs an ...

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Engineer Lead

This is a remote position with heavy travel during the first 3-6 months

Ad Hoc is a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. Using modern, agile methods, our team creates products that meet people�s needs and transform their experience of government.

Work on things that matter

Our collaborations have shaped some of the defining moments in public-sector service delivery. We�ve helped build products that connect Veterans to tailored services, help millions access affordable health care, and support important programs like Head Start. As we work with agencies to deliver critical services, we�re also changing how the government approaches technology.

Built for a remote life

Our culture, communications, and tools are built for remote work, enabling us to bring together top talent nationwide. At Ad Hoc, remote life empowers our teams to design work environments that fit their lives and that foster flexibility and collaboration to achieve positive outcomes for our customers.

Committed to high expectations and a welcoming culture

Ad Hoc values acceptance, accountability, and humility. We aren�t heroes. We learn from our mistakes and improve the process for the next time. We build small, inclusive teams to collaborate closely with our partners to solve the right problems and deliver software that works.

The Federal Civilian business unit supports many customers spanning the federal, commercial, and nonprofit space. Our customers include NASA, the General Services Administration, Office of Personnel Management, the Library of Congress, Health & Human Services, and the FDIC. We partner with these agencies to build new capabilities, deliver products, establish data as a strategic asset for informed decision-making, modernize legacy systems, and build the digital service infrastructure necessary to scale their mission impact.

Primary Responsibilities:

The DevOps Lead Engineer & Manager will be instrumental in building and operating HHS�s next-generation digital platform�a platform designed for real-time public health communication, AI-enabled capabilities, accelerated social/media signal ingestion, and advanced data logic and integration across the department.

This leader oversees and mentors the teams responsible for:

• Cloud-native infrastructure design and automation

• Kubernetes-based compute platforms

• Enterprise CI/CD modernization

• Observability, reliability, and automated recovery frameworks

• Secure environments optimized for AI, high-velocity data, and modern application architectures

They will define and enforce standards for Infrastructure as Code, enabling the organization to operate with full automation, consistency, and auditability across environments. Their leadership ensures infrastructure is versioned, tested, policy-validated, and easily scalable.

By shaping both the platform architecture and the engineering culture, the DevOps Lead Engineer & Manager enables HHS to:

• Rapidly integrate new data sources and AI capabilities

• Scale to support national-level communication and analytical workloads

• Operate with resilience, security, and reliability

• Innovate quickly while maintaining trust and performance

This role is critical to ensuring HHS has the modern, automated, AI-ready infrastructure required for the next era of digital public health.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor�s degree and 9+ years of experience

  • Relevant years of experience may be substituted for education

• Ability to design and review complex automation services, internal APIs, and tooling that streamline deployments, platform operations, and AI-driven workflows.

• Guides teams in standardized patterns for automation, data integration, and platform observability

• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation)

• Deep experience architecting IaC patterns for large-scale cloud environments.

• Ability to set organization-wide standards for provisioning, configuration, compliance enforcement, and environment lifecycle management.

• Leads the shift toward fully automated, reproducible, policy-driven infrastructure.

• Event-Driven Architecture Expertise (Kafka, AWS EventBridge, Azure Event Hubs)

• Designs and governs real-time event pipelines supporting:

  • AI/ML triggers

  • High-frequency social/media data ingestion

  • Real-time system monitoring and health automation

  • Platform-wide event-driven workflows

• Mentors teams on building durable, scalable streaming systems

• Cloud & Container Platform Mastery (AWS, Azure, or GCP + Docker + Kubernetes)

• Expert-level experience running production workloads in Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE)

• Strong foundation in cloud networking, multi-region high availability, service mesh, autoscaling, and secure distributed architecture

• CI/CD Architecture Leadership (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar)

• Ability to architect and standardize enterprise CI/CD frameworks enabling rapid, safe delivery

• Skilled in automated testing, security gates, policy-as-code, and zero-downtime deployment strategies

• Observability & Reliability Engineering (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, ELK)

• Defines organizational SLIs/SLOs and implements resilient monitoring, alerting, and automated remediation

• Leads incident response and ensures long-term reliability improvements

Leadership & People Management

• Experience managing DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering teams, including hiring, mentoring, and performance management

• Strength in stakeholder communication and cross-team technical alignment

• Ability to establish a strategic platform roadmap that supports emerging AI and data capabilities

Preferred Qualifications:

• Security & Compliance Automation (FedRAMP, NIST, Zero Trust) - Experience embedding automated controls, scanning, and compliance policies into CI/CD and runtime environments

• Workflow Orchestration (Airflow, Prefect) - Useful for managing complex operational tasks, data processing pipelines, and platform automation efforts

• Healthcare Interoperability Experience (FHIR, HL7) - Helpful for data exchange and system-integration needs across HHS

• Program-Level Platform Strategy - Experience defining cross-cutting platform modernization plans spanning infrastructure, automation, data, and AI readiness

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Benefits:

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

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 various state and city equal pay transparency laws, 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 $160,000 - $180,000. Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements.