AWS Cloud Administrator

• Manage the state of all components in our Amazon cloud infrastructure.
• Manage overall site availability, latency, and system health.
• Manage monitoring environments determining alert strategies and tuning them in production.
• Monitor and troubleshoot site performance issues.
• Monitor for server and software vulnerabilities and manage upgrade and patching efforts.
• Develop and manage configuration scripts for Amazon hosted infrastructure.
• Work closely with the development team and management to ensure high availability and security.
• Maintain cloud-based servers patching vulnerabilities, backup/restore operations, provision new servers, configure firewalls, configure monitoring systems.
• Respond to alarms, outages and incidents on an as-needed basis.
• Execute on service requests assigned.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• 5+ years experience working in IT
• 3+ Years experience provisioning, operating, and maintaining systems running on AWS
• Associate Level AWS Certification required – Solutions Architect, DevOps or SysOps
• Experience managing and troubleshooting security groups, NACL’s, Transit Gateways, Load Balancers, S3, EC2 and other AWS technologies.
• Ability to identify and gather requirements to define a solution to be built and operated on AWS
• Experience managing mission critical database infrastructure – on-premise, EC2 Hosted, as well as on RDS
• Production experience implementing automation in an environment
• Fluency writing Infrastructure as code – CloudFormation / Terraform using JSON/YAML/etc.
• Fluency in at least one scripting language and writing Lambda functions – Highly preferred
• Fluency with basic git terminologies and git commands
• Experience with enterprise grade site and log monitoring software
• Working knowledge with AWS Security and governance services
• Working knowledge of Palo Alto firewall and SilverPeak SD-WAN technology is a plus.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a diverse, distributed team