AWS Administrator

Job Description

Title : AWS Administrator

Duration : 12 months Contract

Location : Hybrid at Atlanta, GA

Description:

The Georgia Department of Human Services (DHS), Office of Information Technology, is seeking a qualified candidate for the temporary contractor staffing position of AWS Administrator biased in Atlanta, 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. Operational monitoring to identify and address issues. 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. Familiarity with AWS security best practices and hands-on experience in implementing security controls and compliance requirements with services like AWS Security Hub, Guard Duty, and AWS Audit Manager. 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, 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 (SaltStack, 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 in public cloud environments, including AWS and/or Azure.
•Experience working in an ITIL-driven environment and working knowledge of ITIL principles and processes.

Required/Desired Skills
Skill

Required /Desired

Amount

of Experience

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, management information systems, or related field combined with experience

Required

0

AWS Certified (MUST UPLOAD CERTIFICATION)

Required

0

Experience in AWS

Required

8

Years

Experience as a System Administrator

Required

8

Years

Experience in public cloud environments, including AWS and/or Azure

Required

8

Years

Experience with automation using an established framework (SaltStack, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc.)

Required

8

Years

Strong system administration experience in Windows and Linux environments

Required

8

Years

Experience in Cloud Administration

Required

8

Years