What are the responsibilities and job description for the Appian/System Administrator position at DRC Systems?
Only W2 (No H1b, No C2C, No 1099) Title: Appian/System Administrator
Location: McLean, VA (5 days - Onsite)
Interview Information
Rounds: 2 rounds
Duration: 30 mins
Interview Type: 1st round virtual | 2nd round onsite
Job Description
We are seeking an experienced Appian Administrator to support and lead the migration of Appian applications from an on-prem Linux environment to AWS EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service). The ideal candidate has hands-on experience administering Appian environments, managing deployments, and working closely with DevOps and cloud engineering teams to design, implement, and stabilize containerized Appian solution in AWS.
Key Responsibilities
Location: McLean, VA (5 days - Onsite)
Interview Information
Rounds: 2 rounds
Duration: 30 mins
Interview Type: 1st round virtual | 2nd round onsite
Job Description
We are seeking an experienced Appian Administrator to support and lead the migration of Appian applications from an on-prem Linux environment to AWS EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service). The ideal candidate has hands-on experience administering Appian environments, managing deployments, and working closely with DevOps and cloud engineering teams to design, implement, and stabilize containerized Appian solution in AWS.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage, configure, and maintain multiple Appian environments (on-prem and cloud)
- Collaborate with infrastructure, security and DevOps teams to plan and execute migration from on-prem to AWS EKS
- Set up and manage Appian Docker containers, and Helm configurations.
- Oversee installation, patching, upgrades and hotfixes of Appian versions.
- Coordinate database migrations (e.g., DB2 to PostgreSQL)
- Ensure application and plugin compatibility post-migration
- Work with InfoSec for image scanning, vulnerability remediation, and compliance approvals.
- Support performance tuning, monitoring and troubleshooting across environments.
- Create and maintain detailed runbooks, SOPs, and architecture documentation.
- 5 years of experience as an Appian Administrator (versions 21.x or later)
- Proven experience migrating Appian from on-prem to containerized/cloud environments (preferably AWS EKS)
- Strong understanding of Linux administration, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and AWS services (ECR, S3, IAM, CloudWatch).
- Experience integrating Appian with enterprise services (LDAP, SSO, SMTP, database, secrets management)
- Kubernetes pods, Webhooks/Controllers
- Familiarity with Appian automation, deployment pipelines (CI/CD), and plugin management.
- Excellent troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills.
- Experience working with EFS, ASM (Amazon secret manager), Appian operator/CRD.
- CloudFormation Templates, Terraform
- Experience in financial services or regulated environments
- Exposure to Hashicorp Vault or CyberArk, Elastic for secrets management
- Familiarity with Goldfield/Private cloud environments or large enterprise cloud migration projects
- Appian administration or DevOps certification is a plus.
