GA DHS - AWS Administrator

Overview

The Georgia Client (Client), Office of Information Technology, is seeking the temporary contractor staffing position of AWS Administrator based in Atlanta, Georgia.

• 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.
• Monitor rightsizing, elasticity, storage optimization, and identify unused resources as part of Managed Services.
• Maintain cloud-based servers: patching vulnerabilities, backup/restore operations, provisioning new servers, configure firewalls, configure monitoring systems.
• Deploy, manage, and optimize Amazon EKS clusters for containerized applications, ensuring high availability and efficient resource usage.
• Implement Kubernetes best practices such as auto-scaling, high availability, and fault tolerance; manage deployments, services, secrets, Config Maps, and other resources within EKS.
• 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 and set standards for resource configurations; evaluate configuration compliance and risk; remediate drift.
• Use AWS Cloud Trail for compliance audits by recording and storing event logs for actions within AWS accounts; set controls to monitor to assure compliance.
• Experience with monitoring tools, middleware software and ITSM tools is a plus.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field from an accredited college or university.
• Eight (10) 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 (Salt Stack, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc.).
• Strong technical knowledge of current protocols, operating systems, and standards; ability 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 knowledge of ITIL principles and processes.

• Seniority level:
  Mid-Senior level
• Employment type:
  
  Full-time
• Job function:
  Other
• Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting