AWS Administrator

AWS Administrator

Remote

About the Job

• Duration: 5 Months Contract (possibility of extension)
• Location: Remote- Atlanta, GA
• Pay rate: Hourly, depending on experience
• Job ID: 725301

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.

About our Company
DataSoft Technologies is a highly recognized provider of professional IT Consulting services in the US. Founded in 1994, DataSoft Technologies, Inc. provides staff augmentation services for Information Technology and Automotive Services. Our team member benefits include:

• Paid Holidays/Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Medical/Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Short Term/Long Term Disability
• Life Insurance
• 401 (K)

Location: Northlake, GA, US

Posted Date: 9/29/2024