AWS Administrator

Job Description

The selected candidate will be responsible for the administration and maintenance of multiple AWS accounts within the state AWS infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities

Establish configuration, compliance, and audit program to effectively manage AWS accounts and resources
Review cloud resources and cost drivers, compute, storage, network, managed services, database and service licenses, marketplace, and accounts
As part of our Managed Services offering for clients; monitor rightsizing, elasticity, storage optimization, and identify unused resources
Maintain cloud-based servers patching vulnerabilities, backup/restore operations, provision new servers, configure firewalls, configure monitoring systems.
Manage account containerization and tagging for internal cost centers and end client billing feeds
Monitor cost allocations, security compliance, budgets and set alerts across accounts, workloads, and users
Use AWS Config to monitor and track resource configuration
Set standards for resource configurations, evaluate configuration compliance, and risk, and remediate configuration drift
Use AWS Cloud Trail for compliance audits by recording and storing event logs for actions made within AWS accounts
Set controls to monitor to assure compliance
Experience with monitoring tools, middleware software and ITSM tools a plus.
Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field from an accredited college or university and six years of operating systems analysis/administration experience
Associate degree in Computer Science or a related field from an accredited college or university and three years of operating systems analysis/administration experience
Five (5) years of Cloud Administration Experience
Excellent technical knowledge of IT Infrastructure, including switches, routers, wireless access points, server operating systems and hardware, storage arrays, and security applications
Strong system administration experience in Windows and Linux environments
Experience with automation using an established framework (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc.)
Strong technical knowledge of current protocols, operating systems, and standards
Able to read and understand technical manuals and procedural documentation
Experience documenting and maintaining configuration item information in ServiceNow or other ITSM platforms to support IT Asset Management functions
Experience in public cloud environments, including AWS and/or Azure
Experience working in an ITIL-driven environment and working knowledge of ITIL principles and processes
Skills: Bachelor's degree in computer science, management information systems, or related field combined with experience

AWS Certified Experience in AWS: 8 Years 
Experience as a System Administrator: 8 Years 
Experience in public cloud environments, including AWS and/or Azure: 8 Years 
Experience with automation using an established framework (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc.): 8 Years Strong system administration experience in Windows and Linux environments: 8 Years 
Experience in Cloud Administration: 8 Years