What are the responsibilities and job description for the Backup Administrator - Cloud position at Johnson Technology Systems Inc?
Position Requirements:
This position is for a Backup Administrator supporting the ALTESS commercial cloud services infrastructure. ALTESS is a managed service provider for Army and DoD IT systems and plans to offer managed cloud services in Microsoft Azure followed closely by Amazon Web Services
JOB DUTIES –
- Build new cloud based data center services environments for DoD cloud initiatives.
- Assist with identifying and planning potential new cloud services, features, and capabilities.
- Serve as overall subject matter expert on Backup Administrator technology and market capabilities/trends.
- Collaborate with internal and external parties to transform high-level technical objectives into comprehensive technical requirements.
- Formulate detailed network, storage, and compute design specifications for stable and secure computing operations in a dynamic cloud based environment.
- Make recommendations for improvements to security, scalability, manageability, and performance across a wide variety of network, storage, and compute technologies.
Required skills:
- Mid to senior level Backup Administrator experience in a cloud environment
- Security (Or equivalent IA cert) and computing environment certification (i.e. VCS, VCP, etc.)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Experience effectively managing multiple large-scale projects
- Experience automating routine administrative tasks desired
- Understanding of network, storage, server, and application technologies
- Strong knowledge of automation concepts, tools, and scripting languages (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc.)
- Working knowledge of DoD STIGs, and IA Vulnerability Management (IAVM) - preferred
- A total of at least 3-5 years of experience as a Backup Administrator.
Required Certifications:
- CompTIA Security
- Computing Environment (CE) Certification (i.e., MCSE, Server , etc.) – can be waived for 30 days after project join date.