Description

Required Skills: Please list how many years of experience the candidate has (manager is looking for 8)

 

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, management information systems, or related field combined with experience.
  • AWS Certified (MUST UPLOAD CERTIFICATION)
  • Experience in AWS
  • Experience as a System Administrator
  • Experience in public cloud environments, including AWS and/or Azure
  • Experience with automation using an established framework (SaltStack, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc.)
  • Strong system administration experience in Windows and Linux environments
  • Experience in Cloud Administration

     

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.
  • Operational monitoring to identify and address issues.
  • 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 CloudTrail for compliance audits by recording and storing event logs for actions made within AWS accounts.
  • Set controls to monitor to assure compliance.
  • Familiarity with AWS security best practices and hands-on experience in implementing security controls and compliance requirements with services like AWS Security Hub, Guard Duty, and AWS Audit Manager.
  • 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.
  • Eight (8) years of Cloud Administration Experience.
  • Excellent technical knowledge of IT Infrastructure, including switches, routers, 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 (SaltStack, 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 in public cloud environments, including AWS and/or Azure.
  • Experience working in an ITIL-driven environment and working knowledge of ITIL principles and processes.

Education

Any Graduate