GA DHS - AWS Administrator

Short Description:
The Georgia Client (Client), Office of Information Technology, is seeking a qualified candidate for the temporary contractor staffing position of AWS Administrator based in Atlanta, Georgia.


Complete Description:
Do NOT submit candidates previously submitted to #754575


We are
seeking a skilled and motivated AWS Administrator to manage and optimize our
Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure. The ideal candidate will be
responsible for the design, deployment, and maintenance of AWS solutions,
ensuring the security, scalability, and reliability of our cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities:
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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.
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As part of our Managed Services offering for clients;
monitor rightsizing, elasticity, storage optimization, and identify unused
resources.
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Maintain cloud-based servers patching vulnerabilities,
backup/restore operations, provision new servers, configure firewalls,
configure monitoring systems.
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Deploy, manage, and optimize Amazon EKS clusters for
containerized applications, ensuring high availability and efficient resource
usage.
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Implement Kubernetes best practices such as auto-scaling,
high availability, and fault tolerance, while managing deployments, services,
secrets, ConfigMaps, and other resources within EKS.
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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.
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Use AWS Config to monitor and track resource configuration.
Set standards for resource configurations, evaluate configuration compliance,
and risk, and remediate configuration drift.
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Use AWS CloudTrail for compliance audits by recording and
storing event logs for actions made within AWS accounts.
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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 (10) years of Cloud Administration
Experience.
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Excellent technical knowledge of IT Infrastructure,
including switches, routers, server operating systems and hardware, storage
arrays, and security applications.
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Strong system administration experience in Windows and
Linux environments. Experience with automation using an established framework
(SaltStack, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc.).
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Strong technical knowledge of current protocols, operating
systems, and standards. Able to read and understand technical manuals and
procedural documentation.
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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.