AWS Cloud Systems Administrator - Federal IT (Hybrid)

Concept-Solution; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 119,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with matching

Dental & Vision

Job summary

Concept Solutions seeks an AWS Cloud Systems Administrator to support the FAA’s C3 office in Washington, DC. The role involves on-site work with telework eligibility after training, securing and modernizing AWS and Linux infrastructure for emergency communications.

You will collaborate with engineers, cybersecurity, and dev teams to administer AWS, perform migrations, and maintain IaC pipelines while ensuring compliance with federal security requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, mathematics, computer science, information technology or related technical field.
• Minimum five years of relevant systems administration, cloud, DevOps experience including hands-on AWS.
• Experience administering core AWS services (EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, Route 53, IAM, CloudWatch).
• Linux/RHEL systems administration: configuration, patching, troubleshooting, security hardening, ops support.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience supporting CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, or Azure DevOps).
• Experience with cloud migration, data-center modernization, or hybrid-cloud implementations.
• Understanding of cloud networking (VPCs, subnets, routing, VPNs, DNS, load balancers, security groups).
• Ability to document work clearly and collaborate across teams.

Responsibilities

• AWS Systems Administration: configure, monitor, troubleshoot AWS services.
• Cloud Migration Support: plan and execute migrations from on-premises to AWS.
• Hybrid Infrastructure Support: connect on-premises with AWS via VPNs, DNS, firewalls and network configs.
• Linux Systems Administration: install, patch, secure, monitor, troubleshoot Linux systems.
• Identity and Security Administration: manage IAM users/roles, policies, MFA, AD integration.
• Infrastructure as Code and Automation: use Terraform or CloudFormation; automate tasks with Bash, Python, AWS CLI.
• CI/CD Support: help deploy pipelines with CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps.
• Container Support: manage Docker, ECS, Fargate, EKS; monitor and scale containers.
• Monitoring, Backup, and Recovery: CloudWatch/CloudTrail; backups, DR tests, recovery procedures.
• Documentation and Operational Support: maintain docs, runbooks, diagrams; incident responses.
• Resource and Cost Awareness: tagging, identify unused resources; advise leadership.

Skills

AWS

Cloud admin

Linux

IaC

CI/CD

Networking

Security

Terraform

CloudFormation

Automation

Education

Bachelor of Science in Engineering/CS/IT

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

AWS CLI

Docker

Kubernetes

ECS/EKS

VMware

Puppet/Ansible

Job description

Concept Solutions seeks an AWS Cloud Systems Administrator to support the FAA’s C3 office in Washington, DC. The role involves on-site work with telework eligibility after training, securing and modernizing AWS and Linux infrastructure for emergency communications.

You will collaborate with engineers, cybersecurity, and dev teams to administer AWS, perform migrations, and maintain IaC pipelines while ensuring compliance with federal security requirements.