Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Company: Ad Hoc
Location: Campbell
Posted on: January 15, 2026

Job Description:

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. 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. 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: Senior DevSecOps Engineer serves as an experienced individual contributor within a team, with the expectation that you will further develop your leadership, guidance and mentoring skills. With minimal oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements. A Senior DevSecOps Engineer impacts the long-term goals of the program, while contributing to the development of the program’s DevSecOps and software engineering strategy. You may serve as the discipline’s primary lead when working with stakeholders and utilize strong influential skills to drive improvements in software engineering processes and practices. Primary expectations of a Senior DevSecOps Engineer include: • Design, build, and operate the scalable, secure Treasury Cloud (TCloud) platform and its services. • Automate infrastructure provisioning via IaC and integrate pipelines with the IRS EDP 2.0. Ensure platform stability, high availability, and optimal cost management. • Writing and maintaining Terraform modules to manage cloud landing zones. • Implementing the HashiCorp Vault centralized secrets management solution. • Developing reusable CI/CD pipeline templates for microservices and API services. Configuring and monitoring platform observability • Strong influential skills to collaborate across teams to consolidate and simplify DevSecOps tools and services • Serves as a mentor to individuals within the team • May leads small, less critical, or temporary team structures and projects • Presents design documents, system diagrams, etc. to clients, stakeholders, partners, and other engineers • Capable of self-directed cloud infrastructure design and pipeline design, including cloud-specific product offerings, and tradeoffs between cost, reliability, and efficiency • Builds libraries, modules, and packages for other infrastructure engineers to integrate with their projects • Builds cloud infrastructure that supports applications and Improves the broader developer experience for engineers • Develops CI/CD processes to help deliver software of higher quality at greater speed • Integrates tools to satisfy non-functional requirements such as quality thresholds, security vulnerabilities, and static analysis • Builds specific application test and deployment pipelines using automated tooling such as Jenkins, Github Actions, Circle CI, Gitlab CI • Proactively works with our government partners and app teams to ensure that we are shipping software that meets security, SLA, and performance requirements • Participates in technical depth interviews with new candidates Basic Qualifications: • Bachelors and 7 years of experience o Relevant years of experience may be substituted for education • Demonstrates expert-level knowledge in at least one infrastructure-as-code tool (e.g. terraform, ansible) • Expertise in key DevSecOps concepts: installing software, virtualization, containerization, networking, etc. Preferred Qualifications: • Expertise in cloud-native architecture, container orchestration (Kubernetes, AKS/EKS/GKE), hybrid connectivity, and disaster recovery configuration. Strong analytical skills for performance optimization and FinOps reporting. • Languages & Software Potentially Needed • Terraform (expert), HashiCorp Vault (expert), AWS/Azure (certification required), Git/GitHub (for version control), Jenkins/GitLab CI/CD, Python (for scripting).

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