Xcel Engineering - Oak Ridge, TN
posted 3 months ago
XCEL Engineering, Inc. is an award-winning small business that provides trusted information technology, engineering, consulting, and project management solutions and services to federal agencies and organizations. Originally founded in 1971 by professional engineers at the University of Tennessee, XCEL was acquired in 2003 by U.S. Army and Navy veterans and in 2023 became a MartinFed company. XCEL Engineering is a part of IT Lab Partners (ITLP), which was created to support a leading research facility in the East Tennessee region in recruiting the best and the brightest technical talent. This position is remote, allowing for flexibility in work location. As a Senior Cloud Engineer in the Digital Platform Services Group, you will work closely with our engineering team to identify and implement optimized cloud-based solutions for the company. Your role will involve defining and recording best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance. You will provide guidance, thought leadership, and mentorship to development teams to build cloud competencies, ensuring application performance, uptime, and scale while maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful design. Additionally, you will manage cloud environments in accordance with company and Federal security guidelines. In terms of cloud operations management, you will provide technical expertise in cloud service categories such as PaaS/SaaS/IaaS, design and build cloud infrastructure, and implement configuration and deployment automation to improve functionality and manageability of our enterprise cloud offerings. You will also be responsible for designing, implementing, and testing disaster recovery and business continuity architecture, as well as monitoring and maintaining multiple environments based on client requirements. Continuous improvement is a key aspect of this role, where you will provide sets of software and systems engineering practices for a streamlined IT environment. Excellent interpersonal, written, presentation, leadership, collaboration, facilitation, and negotiation skills are essential, as you will interact with all levels of internal and external partners. You will cultivate positive relationships with industry authorities and solve incidents while implementing preventive measures. Educating teams on new cloud-based initiatives and providing associated training will also be part of your responsibilities.