DevOps Manager at Excella Consulting (Arlington, VA)

Overview

We want to grow our DevOps service to join the areas where we already have expertise – software development, data and analytics, program management, Agile, and business analysis. We need a rising leader to help take our DevOps service area to the next level.

The DevOps Manager we need is a consultant and thought leader responsible for contributing to the vision for DevOps at Excella. Assisting to build Excella’s capability and capacity for doing awesome DevOps work that has a real and lasting impact on our clients, the DevOps Manager works on teams and with teams in “hands on” roles close to the technology and as a coach. The DevOps Manager also connects with the DevOps community to help build Excella’s reputation as a thought leader, cultivate our exceptional culture, and establish Excella as the place where the DevOps community connects, shares, and learns.

You might be the right person for this role if:

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• You strongly identify with Bill Palmer from The Phoenix Project.
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• You have an irresistible urge to automate all the things – one click or one command should be all it takes, right?
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• You love helping people with different perspectives work together to build high quality working software and deliver it into production quickly and frequently to help their organization win.
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• You get “what” DevOps is, but you’re more interested in “why” DevOps.
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Responsibilities

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• Inspire and motivate others through his or her leadership.
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• Assist in defining DevOps-related strategic initiatives and help in communicating the vision at all levels.
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• Actively mentor Excella’s DevOps consultants.
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• Collaborate with the Service Area Lead and other corporate leaders on company initiatives.
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• Collaborate with our industry partners to place Excella’s DevOps consultants into challenging, rewarding roles on projects.
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• Create DevOps content for internal and external consumption and encourage others to do it, as well – presentations, white papers, workshops, blog posts, training classes, open source contributions.
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• Have a presence in the local DevOps community.
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• Consult directly (i.e., be billable) to clients and account teams.
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Qualifications

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• 7+ years of engineering/systems experience
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• Experience in a formal or informal leadership role
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• Experience working with organizations through DevOps transformations.
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• Experience building deployment pipelines, operating on cloud platforms, and managing systems in production.
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• Breadth and depth with:
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  • Configuration management tools, like Puppet, Chef, and Ansible.
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  • Pipeline tools, like Jenkins and Git.
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  • Cloud platforms and operating systems, like AWS and Linux.
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  • Software development experience with languages such as Java, Ruby, C#, Node.JS, and Python.
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• Demonstrated involvement and contribution to the DevOps community.
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• Experience engaging with stakeholders at different levels and with different perspectives.
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• Outstanding mentoring and teaching abilities.
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• Experience using Agile methods to deliver solutions.
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• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills (verbal, written, and presentation).
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