Cloud Solutions Engineer & Migration Specialist

Nava, Washington, DC/Remote

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Duration: Full-Time

About Nava

Nava is a public benefit corporation, which means we have a social mission written into our founding charter. The people who work at Nava have a fiduciary duty to our stated mission: to improve access, effectiveness, and simplicity of government services.

As a professional services firm, we achieve our mission by partnering with government clients at the state and federal levels. We bill for our time, selling our expertise and problem-solving methodology to government clients who hire us to help improve their products and services so that their users and beneficiaries have a better experience.

These end-users — the humans who benefit from our work — are at the core of everything we do. They inspire and motivate us. Working with our government clients to align their goals with their beneficiary's needs enables them to better deliver on their mission and provides everyone at Nava opportunities to do meaningful, impactful work.

Position Summary

As a Cloud Solutions Engineer, you will be taking on a wide range of client-facing activities in assisting our clients move along their journey into cloud native computing. The Cloud Solutions Engineer is a hands-on cloud engineering role specializing in working closely with Nava’s federal customers who are both migrating existing solutions to the cloud as well as developing new cloud-native software solutions. In this role, you will work closely with our clients, technical leads, other professional services firms and other business units to ensure migrations are successful. Your tasks will vary from day to day and client to client, and as a Cloud Solutions Engineer, you will not only be able to make a technical migration plan, but you will need to confidently guide and educate Nava’s cloud customers and stakeholders through their migration.

What You’ll Do

Cloud architecture: Designing and architect applications using the latest DevSecOps methodologies and on multiple CSP offerings. Willingness to collaborate with the customer in making the best architectural decisions to meet the customer needs for their applications.

Cloud migrations: Identify and recommend solutions for Nava’s federal customers to optimize and mature their systems. Translate traditional data center infrastructure to cloud infrastructure and architecture in the context of cloud migrations for applications.

Customer service: From design, planning, management, software maintenance, and assisting customers with questions, you help keep Nava’s customers engaged and happy!

Required Technical skills:

Broad expertise in cloud services (AWS, Azure) as well as cloud networking technologies (AWS VPC, Active Directory, LDAP, VPN, DNS, PKI, Firewalls, Load Balancers)
A working understanding of code and script such as, but not limited to: PHP, Python, Perl and/or Ruby, C# Visual Basic.
A working understanding with CI/CD tools such as Docker, Jenkins or equivalent.
A working understanding of scheduling systems such as: Kubernetes, ECS, Fargate, or equivalent.
A working understanding of orchestration tools such as: Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or equivalent.
Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies.
Experience in IaaS and automation/configuration management using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Docker, or an equivalent.
Experience with source code management tools such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket or equivalent.
Understanding of hybrid cloud solutions and experience of integrating public cloud into traditional hosting/delivery models
Strong understanding of cloud migration techniques and workflows (on premise to Cloud Platforms).
Cloud-native architecture design and deployment experience
High Availability and Disaster Recovery methodologies (redundancy models, backup and restore solutions, etc)
Experience as principal technical lead on at least one major project.

Required Experience:

Cloud architecture: Broad understanding of cloud services and potential application architectures.
Cloud migration: Demonstrated experience re-architecting applications and migrating them to the Cloud.
Strong background in linux/Unix and/or Windows administration.
Experience with cloud and data migration technologies such as AWS Snow, Azure Migrate, Plate Spin, CloudEndure etc.
Experience building and deploying multi-tier, scalable, and highly available applications using a variety of programming languages and technologies
Experience in performance tuning, including the following: load balancing, web servers, content delivery Networks, Caching (Content and API).
Varied experience in legacy application patterns on Microsoft or Linux platforms

Client-Facing Attributes:

Strong soft skills and ability to effectively communicate with Nava’s federal cloud customers and others within the federal contractor community.
Tactful, supportive and helpful mindset and the ability to communicate in a manner of teaching and leading.
A client facing role within a professional services firm preferred
Able to communicate effectively to a variety of audiences, whether that be engineers or senior client executives

Education and Experience

Bachelors or equivalent in experience.
6-7 years relevant experience in cloud engineering, architecture and account management
Cloud certifications preferred (AWS or Azure trained / certified architect – e.g. Amazon Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional Level)

Other requirements

Residency: Lived in United States at least 3 years out of the last 5 years
Clearance: Able to attain and maintain Public Trust clearance or higher (An active green card or citizenship is required).

If you're interested in being considered for this role please apply via the internal job board ASAP (before COB Tuesday May 5/10.). Read about internal transfer policies here. Check out all open internal roles here.

Annual Compensation: Up to $135,900 DOE

Other requirements

● Must have lived in the United States for at least three (3) of the past five (5) years.

● An active green card or citizenship is required.

● Candidates who are offered a job with Nava must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa now or in the future.

● Offer of hire is contingent upon completion of a background check that includes a criminal record history review.

● Applicants selected for this position may be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information or applicants who are eligible for security clearances.

Perks working with Nava

● Your well-being is important to us, so we offer highly competitive benefits for medical, dental, and vision

● 20 days of PTO accrued, 12 days paid federal holidays, 5 floating holidays, unlimited sick leave

● 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave and weekly meal deliveries during leave

● Sabbatical Leave

● 401k contributions match at 4% of your salary

● Flexible work arrangements

● $1,000 new home office set up budget, monthly phone allowance

● Monthly partial reimbursement for utilities (where applicable)

● $2,000 annual tuition and professional development budget

● Equity stock options

● Employee referral program

● Commuter Benefits

● Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance

● Life and Accidental Death

● Diverse, inclusive, highly collaborative, and vibrant culture fostering remote work!

Location

You can work in a hybrid work arrangement from one of Nava’s offices in NYC, DC, or San Francisco. We also have fully remote options if you reside in one of the following states:

Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, DC, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington.

*If you are not living in one of the states listed above, unfortunately, you will not be considered for a position at this time.

Nava PBC equal opportunity employer that is deeply committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, age, gender, religious or political beliefs, national origin or heritage, marital status, disability, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity, genetic information, pregnancy, status as a protected veteran or any characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion not only reflects our values as a public benefit corporation but also enriches our ability to do our work. Learn more about where we are today and hope to be by 2025.

Please contact the recruiting team at [email protected] if you would like to request reasonable accommodation during the application or interviewing process.

We participate in E-Verify. Upon hire, we will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. This role is required to work from the contiguous United States.

About Nava

We're a team of engineers, designers, and product builders that were brought in to help fix HealthCare.gov in the winter of 2013. Since then, we've been working with the government to improve the services HealthCare.gov provides. The new application process that we designed and built is now used by millions each year to sign up for health insurance, and has helped America reach its lowest uninsured rate ever. With our experience repairing complex systems at HealthCare.gov we’ve seen how building with high expectations, clear design, and scalable infrastructure can create dramatic benefits. We’ve been the firefighters – now we’re the architects. We're proud of what we've been able to do, but our work is far from done. We’ve since begun work with both the Department of Veterans Affairs and Medicare. We are focused on modernizing the VA’s appeals processing systems – Veterans currently wait, on average, five years to receive a resolution. For Medicare, we are designing and building the architecture for Medicare's historic transition towards value-based care. We’ve started Nava as a public benefit corporation to radically improve how our government serves its people. We believe that the services our government provides should be clear and reliable. We’re here for the people that have no seat at the table — design for them, make decisions for them. We are their advocate and an active and responsible steward of that power.