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AWS Administrator Job Description
The
selected candidate will be responsible for the administration and maintenance
of multiple AWS accounts within the state AWS infrastructure.
AWS Administrator Key Responsibilities
- Establish configuration,
compliance, and audit program to effectively manage AWS accounts and
resources.
- Review cloud resources and
cost drivers, computer, storage, network, managed services, database and
service licenses, marketplace, and accounts.
- As part of our Managed
Services offering for clients; monitor rightsizing, elasticity, storage
optimization, and identify unused resources.
- Maintain cloud-based servers
patching vulnerabilities, backup/restore operations, provision new
servers, configure firewalls, configure monitoring systems.
- 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 configuration compliance, and risk, 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 to
assure compliance.
Requirements
AWS Administrator Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer
science or a related field from an accredited college or university.
- 8 Years of Cloud
Administration Experience.
- Excellent technical knowledge
of IT Infrastructure, including switches, routers, wireless access points,
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 (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 documenting and
maintaining configuration item information in ServiceNow or other ITSM
platforms to support IT Asset Management functions.
- Experience in public cloud
environments, including AWS and/or Azure.
- Experience working in an
ITIL-driven environment and knowledge of ITIL principles and processes.
- Experience with monitoring
tools, middleware software and ITSM tools a plus.