AWS Administrator

Bestica Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative staffing firm is seeking a skilled AWS Administrator to join their team remotely. In this dynamic role, you will manage and optimize AWS infrastructure, ensuring security, scalability, and reliability of cloud environments. Your responsibilities will include establishing compliance programs, monitoring resource usage, and deploying containerized applications using Amazon EKS. With a focus on best practices in cloud administration, you'll play a crucial role in enhancing the efficiency of cloud operations. If you're passionate about cloud technology and looking for an exciting opportunity, this is the perfect fit for you.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of Cloud Administration experience required.
• Strong knowledge of IT Infrastructure and security applications.

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimize AWS infrastructure, ensuring security and reliability.
• Deploy and manage Amazon EKS clusters for containerized applications.

Skills

AWS Administration

Cloud Security

System Administration

Kubernetes

Automation (SaltStack, Puppet, Chef, Ansible)

Technical Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS Config

AWS CloudTrail

Monitoring Tools

Job description

Direct message the job poster from Bestica Inc.

Location: Atlanta, Georgia 30334 (REMOTE)

Tenure: 4+ Months contract to start with high chances of contract extension

Short Description:

Client is seeking a qualified candidate for the temporary contractor staffing position of AWS Administrator based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Complete Description:

We are seeking a skilled and motivated AWS Administrator to manage and optimize our Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure. The ideal candidate will be responsible for the design, deployment, and maintenance of AWS solutions, ensuring the security, scalability, and reliability of our cloud 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.
• Monitor rightsizing, elasticity, storage optimization, and identify unused resources as part of our Managed Services offering for clients.
• Maintain cloud-based servers, patch vulnerabilities, perform backup/restore operations, provision new servers, configure firewalls, and 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, while managing deployments, services, secrets, ConfigMaps, 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. Set standards for resource configurations, evaluate compliance, 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 compliance. Experience with monitoring tools, middleware software, and ITSM tools is a plus.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field from an accredited college or university. Ten (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 (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.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Contract

Job function

Other

Industries

Staffing and Recruiting