GA DHS - AWS Administrator AD

Position: GA DHS - AWS Administrator with AD
Description

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior AWS Administrator with experience in managing and supporting Active Directory environments.

The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of Amazon Web Services (AWS), including its infrastructure, services, and best practices, as well as expertise in implementing, configuring, and maintaining Active Directory solutions within AWS environments. The role involves managing cloud infrastructure, ensuring seamless integration with on-premises systems, and troubleshooting complex environments.

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.

• Implement and manage Active Directory (AD) services, including AD Domain Services, AD Federation Services, and AD Certificate Services in AWS environments.

• Integrate AWS Managed Microsoft AD with on-premises ADinfrastructure or other cloud environments.

• Set up and manage Active Directory Federation Services(ADFS) in the cloud, ensuring secure access and identity management.

• Automate the provisioning and management of Active Directory resources within AWS.

• As part of our Managed Services offering for clients;monitor rightsizing, elasticity, storage optimization, and identify unusedresources.

• Maintain cloud-based servers patching vulnerabilities,backup/restore operations, provision new servers, configure firewalls,configure monitoring systems.

• Manage account containerization and tagging for internalcost centers and end client billing feeds. Monitor cost allocations, securitycompliance, 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 andstoring 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. Eight (12) years of Cloud Administration Experience.

• Excellent technical knowledge of IT Infrastructure,including switches, routers, server operating systems and hardware, storagearrays, and security applications.

• Strong system administration experience in Windows and Linux environments.

Experience with automation using an established framework(Salt Stack, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc.).

• Strong technical knowledge of current protocols, operating systems, and standards. Able to read and understand technical manuals andprocedural documentation.

• Experience in public cloud environments, including AWSand/or Azure. Experience working in an ITIL-driven environment and working knowledge of ITIL principles and processes.

Required/Desired Skills

Skill Required /Desired Amountof Experience Bachelor's degree in computer science, management information systems, or related field combined with experienceRequired0

AWS Certified (MUST UPLOAD CERTIFICATION)
Required0

Experience in AWS Required
12

Years Experience as a System Administrator Required
12

Years Experience in public cloud environments, including AWS and/or Azure Required
12

Years

Experience with automation using an established framework (Salt Stack, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc.)Required8

Years Strong system administration experience in Windows and Linux environmentsRequired
12

Years Experience in Cloud Administration Required
12

Years Managed Microsoft AD, AD FS, and AD Connect Required0

AWS Solution Architect Professional Required0

MCSA or MCSE Azure Solution Architect Expert Required0
Questions

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Absences greater than two weeks MUST be approved by CAI management in advance, and contact information must be provided to CAI so that the resource can be reached during his or her absence. The Client has the right to dismiss the resource if he or she does not return to work…