Cloud Systems Administrator – AWS

Concept Solutions is seeking an AWS Cloud Systems Administrator to join a dedicated team of Information Technology professionals supporting the Federal Aviation Administration’s Command, Control, and Communications (C3) office.

The C3 office carries a critical strategic mandate: ensuring FAA managers maintain daily situational awareness and continuity of communications during national emergencies, natural disasters, and critical equipment disruptions. When disruptions occur, the C3 office supports rapid disaster recovery and restoration of essential communication services.

This mission-critical position is based on-site in Washington, DC, with some telework eligibility available after the selected candidate is fully trained and integrated into the team.

The AWS Cloud Systems Administrator will help administer, secure, automate, and monitor the AWS and Linux infrastructure supporting the FAA’s emergency communications environment. The successful candidate will also participate in the modernization and migration of legacy on-premises systems into AWS.

This is a hands‑on systems administration position for someone who understands traditional enterprise infrastructure and has expanded their experience into AWS. The selected candidate will work collaboratively with senior engineers, architects, application developers, cybersecurity personnel, and other infrastructure teams.

• AWS Systems Administration: Administer, configure, monitor, and troubleshoot AWS services such as Amazon EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, Route 53, IAM, Cloud Watch, and related services.
• Cloud Migration Support
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  Participate in the planning and execution of migrations from legacy on-premises environments to AWS. Assist with system discovery, configuration, testing, data transfer, deployment, validation, documentation, and post‑migration support.
• Hybrid Infrastructure Support
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  Support connectivity between on‑premises and AWS environments, including VPNs, routing, DNS, firewalls, security groups, and network troubleshooting. Work with senior engineers and network specialists on more complex Direct Connect and Transit Gateway configurations.
• Linux Systems Administration
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  Install, configure, patch, secure, monitor, and troubleshoot Linux/RHEL servers supporting cloud and hybrid environments.
• Identity and Security Administration
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  Administer AWS IAM users, roles, policies, security groups, encryption controls, and multifactor authentication in accordance with least‑privilege and federal security requirements. Support integration with enterprise identity platforms such as Active Directory and IAM Identity Center.
• Infrastructure as Code and Automation
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  Use Terraform, AWS Cloud Formation, or similar tools to provision and maintain cloud infrastructure. Automate routine administrative and operational tasks using Bash, Python, AWS CLI, AWS Systems Manager, or related tools.
• CI/CD Support
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  Support and maintain automated deployment pipelines using tools such as AWS Code Pipeline, Git Lab CI/CD, Git Hub Actions, Jenkins, or Azure Dev Ops. Assist application and development teams with deployments, troubleshooting, and security or quality checks.
• Container Support
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  Support containerized applications using Docker, Amazon ECS, AWS Fargate, or Amazon EKS. Monitor workloads and assist with deployment, configuration, scaling, and troubleshooting.
• Monitoring, Backup, and Recovery
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  Monitor infrastructure health, performance, availability, logs, and security events using services such as Amazon Cloud Watch and Cloud Trail. Support backups, snapshots, restoration testing, disaster‑recovery procedures, and Continuity of Operations requirements.
• Documentation and Operational Support
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  Maintain system documentation, configuration records,…