Excella is a leading provider of Agile software development and data and analytics solutions to clients in the federal, commercial and non-profit sectors. We believe that great work leads to great things –- our experts measure success by the positive impact we make on our clients, community, and colleagues. We are growing fast and need passionate, innovative people who love working with technology and are ready to make an impact. Here's what you can expect from us:

  • Workplace sites look different for everyone – whether it’s your home or the office, we believe in a flexible work/life balance that supports you regardless of your location. We offer a home office allowance that can be used for home office furniture/equipment, a daily pass for a coworking space, etc. Our commute reimbursement plan has you covered for whether you bike, Metro, or drive to work.
  • We offer top of industry medical, dental, and vision benefits with multiple options to choose from such as an employer-contributed health savings account, infertility coverage, and orthodontia so you can select the plan that works best for you.
  • Regardless of what stage of life you’re in, Excella wants to support you. We provide 8 weeks of Parental Leave, discounted pet insurance, and a Care.com membership with 3 back-up emergency child or elder care days annually – all available to you on your first day.
  • Starting day one, every employee is bonus eligible and receives 15 days of paid vacation, 6 federal holidays, and 4 floating holidays.
  • Doing your best work means having the best tools! Excella’s TechEleX program provides you with multiple options to suit your technology needs. Choose between a variety of Mac or PC devices, and to ensure your hardware remains current, at the end of a 3-year period Excella will replace your existing computer with a new model from the program. Plus, we’ll even give you the original device to keep for your personal use!
  • Excella provides a Workplace Allowance to offset both the costs to maintain a distributed work environment and to enhance your workplace wellness. Excella will reimburse all full-time Excellians for up to $500 in expenses incurred during the calendar year.
  • Diversity and inclusion matter. Excella created and continues to support employee led-affinity groups and the Inclusion Diversity Equity Ambassador (IDEA) team, a cross-functional employee-led initiative to continually foster innovation and increase inclusion within Excella.
  • We'll invest in your career by providing 3 days of paid professional development every year, including travel and registration fees to attend classes and conferences.
  • We encourage mindfulness and overall well-being through employee wellness events, a HeadSpace membership, as well as access to TalkSpace and mental health coverage through our medical plans.

Position Summary

Senior Cloud Engineers at Excella are individuals driven to build the most efficient, resilient, secure and stable infrastructure possible

Mindset:

You might be the right person for this role, if you are driven to build systems with the characteristics present in the Azure Well-Architected Framework.

  • Operational excellence: Operations processes that keep a system running in production.
  • Security: Protecting applications and data from threats.
  • Reliability: The ability of a system to recover from failures and continue to function 
  • Performance efficiency: The ability of a system to adapt to changes in load
  • Cost optimization: Managing costs to maximize the value delivered 

We’re looking for candidates versed in:

  • Continuous Delivery: Delivering Cloud infrastructure as code using continuous delivery principles and embracing modern practices like test and policy automation
  • The DevOps mindset: a collaborative, value-first approach that understands the symbiotic nature and overlap of those groups who specialize in building and running applications. Shift things to the left. Fail fast. Put automation first.

Responsibilities

We are looking for Cloud Engineers with demonstrated experience in the following areas:  

  • Performing operations as code:Implementing infrastructure and operations procedures as code, checked into source control and deployed via an automated pipeline.  
  • Cloud migration: Helping clients translate their applications and services into the cloud for the first time.   
  • Cloud modernization: Implementing patterns to optimize and re-architect legacy applications into micro-service and/or serverless architectures.
  • Enabling Hybrid Cloud: Willingness to help clients leverage the strengths of their on-premise and cloud environments for maximum impact and value, and guiding clients around the associated trade-offs.
  • Automation of infrastructure: Crafting reliable and effective automated test suites that enable confident delivery and prevent defects as soon as possible in the delivery cycle. Experience with policy, compliance, and security automation are beneficial as well.
  • Cloud security:Implementing solutions involving the principle of least privilege, applying security at all layers of the infrastructure from application, to instance, to network configuration. Understanding and configuring identity & access management (IAM) in cloud ecosystems.
  • Creating traceability: Creating and designing solutions to monitor, alert, and audit actions and changes happening in the account in real-time.  
  • Repeatability: Establishing infrastructure tools and patterns that can be repeated and automated
  • Continuous Delivery: As new infrastructure and code are available they can be deployed to production or end users at any time, on demand.  

Qualifications / Skills 

You will have experience with using, supporting, administering, and leveraging tools in the following areas: 

  • Infrastructure as Code:  using tools such as  Terraform, Pulumi, Azure Bicep, Azure ARM templates, or the Azure CLI/SDKs. Utilization of PowerShell, bash, and similar technology to configure and debug modern operating systems.
  • Performance: Multi-availability zone / Region failover, auto-scaling, large-scale concurrent computing in the cloud.
  • Azure: Strong experience working with Azure core services such as IAM, Azure AD, Compute (VMs, Containers, AppServcice, Functions), Networking (Virtual Networks, VPN Gateways), Storage (Accounts, Disk/blob storage), Databases (CosmosDB, Azure SQL , Azure Database), and a decent working knowledge of the Azure Services catalog.
  • Azure AD and on-prem Active Directory: Securing application access using these methods and understanding how to use them in conjunction or migrate between them
  • Experience with Azure Data: Experience with Analysis Services, Synapse Analytics, Azure Databricks, Azure ML / AI offerings
  • Security: Experience designing cloud solutions in a federal validated environment such as FedRamp, FISMA, HIPPAA.
  • Modern programming languages:Solving automation problems using tools such as:  C#/.NET, Python, Ruby, Go, Node.js,   
  • Automated Infrastructure Testing: Designing and implementing automated testing of infrastructure and application deployments in the cloud.
  • Containerization and Container Orchestration: Creating, deploying, and orchestrating code changes using tools such as: Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, ACS/AKS
  • Leadership: Experience serving as a key subject-matter expert or thought leader to individuals to internal and external teams. Project planning and execution of enterprise level cloud solutions in an Agile environment. Driving achievable technical outcomes through hands-on technical subject matter expertise. You solve problems, and you help others do so.
  • Automation Pipelines: Creating and deploying as code changes to automation pipelines such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, Bamboo, CircleCI, TravisCI 
  • Cloud Cost Management and Optimization: Experience with Cost Analysis Tooling such as AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, or Google Cloud Billing
  • Financial Analysis and Reporting: Ability to generate and interpret cost reports, and understand key financial metrics
  • Governance and Policy Implementation: Experience in setting up cost control mechanisms and governance policies to prevent cloud overspending and audit ability.
  • Understanding of DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) and the capabilities within the DORA capability catalog is encouraged.

Excella is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. Excella is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, contact Recruiting@excella.com or 703-840-8600.

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