Excella is hiring a
Senior DevOps Automation Engineer

Summary

Join Excella, a leading provider of Agile software development and data analytics solutions, as a Senior DevOps Automation Engineer. We're looking for passionate individuals who love working with technology and are ready to make an impact. Enjoy a flexible work/life balance, top-of-industry medical benefits, and opportunities for professional growth.

Requirements

• Modern programming languages: Solving automation problems using tools such as Python, Ruby, Go, Node.js, C#
• Automation Pipelines: Creating and deploying as code changes to automation pipelines such as GitLab, Jenkins, Bamboo, CircleCI, TravisCI
• Programmatic Operating System Manipulation: Using command line tools such as Bash or PowerShell to operate and debug issues with modern operating systems
• Configuration Management: Configuring and creating CI/CD pipelines using configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Packer
• Leadership: Experience serving as a key subject-matter expert or thought leader to individuals to internal and external teams
• Cloud Providers: Relevant work experience in Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Azure
• Containerization and Container Orchestration: Creating, deploying, and orchestrating code changes using tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Elastic Container Service

Responsibilities

• Version Control: Storing all application code, system configuration, infrastructure code, and deployment scripts in version control
• Deployment Automation: Creating automated and repeatable deployment scripts for all changes to infrastructure, applications, and security
• Continuous Integration (CI): Creating solutions that upon changes to code trigger build processes that involve running tests to ensure the state of the code has not degraded
• Trunk-based Development: Working with fewer than three active branches at any time with very short lifetimes per branch (less than one day)
• Test Automation: Creating solutions with reliable automated tests in place when changes occur to system configuration, deployment scripts, infrastructure, or security features
• Test Data Management: Designing solutions with adequate test data to run fully automated test suites and acquire test data for running tests on demand
• Security: Integrating security into the design and testing phases of software development
• Leadership: Establishing milestones and priorities for work assigned to self and DevOps engineering teams
• Communication: Presenting technical and non-technical information articulately to both internal and external teams and stakeholders
• Accountability: Establishing accountability for multiple work projects and teams

Benefits

• Top of industry medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 8 weeks of Parental Leave
• Discounted pet insurance
• Care.com membership with 3 back-up emergency child or elder care days annually
• Bonus eligible starting day one
• 15 days of paid vacation
• 6 federal holidays
• 4 floating holidays
• $500 home office allowance
• Commute reimbursement plan