What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cloud Administrator position at A-TEK, Inc.?
A-TEK is seeking a Cloud Systems Administrator (CSA) who will be responsible for managing and maintaining the cloud infrastructure services and servers in mixed software environments. The CSA will lead and oversee a multiuser computing environment to meet the needs of a major Federal Agency. The administrator must have strong technical knowledge of virtual machines, writing code, and software as a service. The Cloud Architect position guides strategic direction and provides overarching architectural leadership for the program team & customers to evaluate and subsequently deploy Cloud solutions.
\n- Provide support to developers and production services operating in NCBI's Amazon AWS and Google GCP environments.
- Participate in discussions of ongoing technical and management efforts, including new architecture.
- Participate in evaluation and implementation of new technologies.
- Ongoing operation and maintenance of existing services
- Assist with development of tools to help monitor and manage the cloud environments and enforce established policies.
- Strong experience with Linux systems administration, particularly CentOS 7 or RedHat 7.
- Experience managing Cloud resources within Amazon AWS or Google's Cloud Platform, particularly:
- Experience writing scripts to automate management tasks.
- Self-starter, able to work independently.
- Ability to learn quickly and adapt to a rapidly changing environment.
- Familiarity with networking concepts (subnetting, basic routing, UDP, TCP, ICMP)
- Ability to manage firewall rules.
- Strong troubleshooting skills
- Some programming experience, applicable to developing cloud management tools (one or more of Bourne/bash shell, ruby, python, perl)
- Familiarity with managing continuous integration tools such as TeamCity, Jenkins, or GitLab.
- Experience with MS Windows systems administration
- Experience with Active Directory and Active Directory Federation Services
- Experience managing resources with puppet.
- Experience writing code to automate management of cloud resources via their native CLI or API
- Experience with cloud automation tools (packer, terraform, cloud-init)
- Experience with enterprise monitoring tools such as Nagios, Splunk, Telegraf, Influxdb.
- Experience with cloud monitoring tools such as CloudWatch and CloudTrail.
- Familiarity with Atlassian tools (JIRA, Confluence, bitbucket)
- Experience with git
- Experience with container technologies (docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift)
- Experience programming in Bourne/bash shell, ruby, python, perl
A-TEK, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or status as a qualified individual with a disability, or Vietnam era or other protected Veteran status.
