Remote Systems Administrator – Cloud & Automation

Halo Recruiting; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

You will provision and test cloud instances, keep environments current, and improve organization of infrastructure. Opportunities exist to grow into automation and deployment work over time.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of systems administration experience with hands-on cloud ops.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Direct experience provisioning, configuring, and upgrading AWS instances.
• Knowledge of cloud networking, access control, and security configurations.
• Ability to diagnose infrastructure problems and implement solutions.
• Clear written and verbal English for technical discussions and docs.
• Ability to work independently in a small technical team.
• Willingness to learn unfamiliar tools and grow into automation.

Responsibilities

• Provision and configure cloud instances across providers and types.
• Run benchmarks and document performance results for infra decisions.
• Administer Linux-based cloud environments, primarily in AWS.
• Keep cloud infra updated and migrate to newer instance types when needed.
• Maintain inventory and documentation of instances and configurations.
• Collaborate with the technical lead on deployment and automation tasks.
• Develop scripts to reduce repetitive infra tasks and automate cloud APIs.

Skills

Linux administration

AWS provisioning

Cloud networking

Troubleshooting

English communication

Independent work

Proactive learning

Python scripting

US Eastern hours availability

Tools

AWS CLI

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

You will provision and test cloud instances, keep environments current, and improve organization of infrastructure. Opportunities exist to grow into automation and deployment work over time.