Engineer Lead; Remote

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.

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.

The Dev Ops 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 Dev Ops 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.

• 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 Cloud Formation)
• 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 Event Bridge, 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…