AWS Administrator
Job in
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, 60601, USA
Listed on 2026-10-31
Listing for:
Lumicity
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-10-31
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
AWS, Systems Administrator, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, IT Infrastructure
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Job Title: AWS Cloud Operations Engineer / Systems Administrator
Location: Remote
Employment Type: Contract - 6 Months +
* USC/ GC Holder Only*
We are seeking an operations-focused AWS Cloud Ops / Systems Administrator to join a fast-paced engineering team supporting core infrastructure for a top-tier AI company.
In this role, you will lead infrastructure reliability, system lifecycle maintenance, and security hardening across large-scale AWS environments. You won't be building application-level features; instead, you'll be the backbone of platform stability, managing major version upgrades, eliminating technical debt, and automating repetitive operational workflows to minimize system downtime.
What You’ll Do- Upgrade & Version Management: Own end-to-end planning and execution of software, runtime, and infrastructure upgrades across AWS workloads.
- EOL/EOS Remediation: Systematically identify and upgrade systems, operating systems, third‑party dependencies, and managed service engines (e.g., RDS, Elasti Cache) approaching end-of-life or end-of-support.
- Large-Scale Patching: Manage major patching programs and OS/middleware updates with minimal to zero operational impact and downtime.
- Operational Automation: Build self‑healing mechanisms, functional automation scripts (Bash, Python), and monitoring improvements to eliminate manual toil.
- Health & Performance Monitoring: Track metrics using Datadog and Cloud Watch to optimize system health and prevent performance bottlenecks.
- AWS Expertise: 3+ years of dedicated AWS administration experience across core services (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, EKS).
- Patching & Lifecycle Upgrades: Proven track record of managing large-scale patching initiatives and major version upgrades for OS and middleware.
- Infrastructure & Automation Tooling: Hands‑on proficiency with Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS SSM, and Atlantis.
- Scripting
Skills:
Practical experience writing system management scripts (Bash, Python, etc.) to automate operational tasks. - Monitoring: Hands‑on experience using Datadog, AWS Cloud Watch, or similar observability tools.
- Experience managing multi-cloud environments (Azure or GCP).
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