AWS Administrator

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AWS Certified (MUST UPLOAD CERTIFICATION)

GA DHS - AWS Administrator (719179)

Location : Atlanta, GA 30334—( Web Cam Interview Only)---( Remote)

Duration : Long term

Client :State of Georgia

The selected candidate will be responsible for the administration and maintenance of multiple AWS accounts within the state AWS infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish configuration, compliance, and audit program to effectively manage AWS accounts and resources
• Review cloud resources and cost drivers, compute, 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.
• Experience with monitoring tools, middleware software and ITSM tools a plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field from an accredited college or university.
• Eight (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 working knowledge of ITIL principles and processes.