Introduction

Elluminates Software’s focus is on creating amazing capabilities for Developers, System Administrators and IT and Cyber Engineers and, ultimately, their users. Our mission is to have a positive impact on society through the use of technology. Elluminates Software has three core business units:

• Platform Engineering for Developer Teams

• Cloud and On Prem Data Center Engineering

• Software Automation Development and Tooling

We offer Products and Professional Services that solve real world problems at scale for our customers. Our Professional Services have successfully supported Federal Agencies, State and Local Governments and commercial enterprises for 20 years.
 

Job Description

Elluminates Software Corporation is looking for a full-time Cloud Engineer with experience designing and testing Azure Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) to include integration with the Enterprise Azure Cloud Services (EACS). This position is in support of the Department of State (DOS) as a part of the Vanguard 2.2.1 contract. The Vanguard 2.2.1 program provides transparent, interconnected systems and security support for the Department of State (DOS) Bureau of Information Resource Management (IRM) program. The IRM program enables the Department of State to successfully carry out its foreign policy mission by providing enterprise architecture design, engineering, operations and maintenance support services for data center services, desktop computers, servers, networks, firewalls, voice and data communications and other unique enterprise applications.
 

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Execute the duties and responsibilities as a member of the ESOC at the DOS Information Resources Management bureau.

• Architect, design, and deploy enterprise-level cloud-based solutions for hosting, backup, off-site data replication and service level capacity solutions.

• Test Microsoft local services support on Stack HCI such as print services, domain controllers, VDI (if available) and validation of network connective performance, data transfer performance, and key Azure Services.

• Act as the technical team lead for cloud projects.​​​​​​

• Support the implementation of Azure hardware and operating systems solutions to provide hosting services to multiple sites.

• Provide Tier III support to deployed systems.

• Assist in the development of Enterprise policies and directives.

• Conduct Technical Exchange Meetings.

• Create test plans, installation guides, technical specifications, white papers as required.

• Communicate regularly to government POCs regarding project activities and status.

  Candidates must be willing to: travel within the Washington DC Metro area to support various program initiatives; support a rotational on-call posture after normal working hours in response to technical support requests; and travel within and outside the continental United States, if required (not to exceed 10%).
  
  Desired Qualifications

• Core networking concepts (Segmentation, sub-netting, routing, public IP, private IP)

• Virtualization (Azure Cloud & On- prem IaaS)

• Automation and scripting

• Cloud IaaS (Any provider but Azure is preferred)

• Cloud PaaS/SaaS (Any provider but Azure is preferred)

• Code Source Control

• Infrastructure as Code

• Agile / DevOps concepts

  Desired Certifications:

• VMware Certified professional 5.5 or higher

• ITIL v3.0 Foundations certificate

• Networking certifications at CISCO professional level

• MCSE Certification Comments: Prior experience working within the Department of State IRM bureau will be considered as a significant plus.

  Years of Experience and Education Requirements

  Education: Bachelors and nine (9) years or more experience; Masters and seven (7) years or more experience; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience. Additional experience in lieu of degree.

  Type: Full-Time
  Clearance: Top Secret Required
  Location: Hybrid: (Washington DC / Remote) Onsite at least twice per week on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
  Shift: Normal Business Hours
  Type of Travel: Local