03 Jul
AWS Administrator (Initial Remote - Locals required)
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Job Title: AWS Administrator (Initial Remote - Locals required) Location: Atlanta, GA Rate: $60/hr. on C2C Duration: 11 Months Job Type: Corp-Corp / 1099 / Contract W2 Job 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.
- 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 is a plus.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field from an accredited college or university and six years of operating systems analysis/administration experience
- OR
- Associate degree in Computer Science or a related field from an accredited college or university and three years of operating systems analysis/administration experience
- Five (5) 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
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