Job Description
Job Responsibilities:
As a Cloud System Administrator, you'll have the opportunity to work with the AWS GovCloud and Commercial Cloud environments. Your responsibilities will include:
- Applying knowledge of AWS operations, including services like EC2, S3, VPC, ELB, Auto Scaling Groups, Route 53, IAM, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, Lambda, SNS, and RDS.
- Developing automation scripts to streamline system management.
- Installing, configuring, and maintaining servers.
- Deploy, manage, and maintain containerized applications using Amazon ECS, including task definitions, services, and load balanced deployments.
- Conducting software installations for both custom developed and COTs applications.
- Managing server and software configurations, ensuring adherence to established procedures, and documenting system changes.
- Monitoring system health and designing solutions to improve performance metrics.
- Offering technical guidance to the customer and operations team on AWS environment intricacies.
- Troubleshooting performance issues through root-cause analysis and addressing system challenges.
- Additional duties may include creating user and service accounts, maintaining system documentation, optimizing system performance, and allocating storage space.
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Required Skills & Experience
We seek individuals who bring the following qualifications and skills to our team:
- 4-9 years of experience in system administration, cloud operations, or related IT infrastructure roles.
- Proficiency in Linux System Administration, including management, configuration, and patching.
- Experience working with Docker containers, including building, tagging, and publishing container images.
- Familiarity with Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) implementations.
- Experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and native automation toolsets (CloudFormation, Lambda)
- Expertise in writing automated Linux scripts using languages like Bash, PERL, Python, and/or Java.
- Familiarity with COTS package upgrades and software deployments.
- Experience with AWS monitoring and logging tools (CloudWatch, CloudTrail)
- Experience producing technical documentation and supporting operational customers
- Must be able to obtain and hold a DoD Secret security clearance
- Must have a Security+ certification or equivalent certification for DoD 8140 compliance
Nice to Have Skills & Experience
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines that build and deploy container images to ECS.
- Knowledge of PKI Certificate based authentication / Single Sign-On
- Knowledge of Apache HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat, DNS and databases (Oracle, SQL Server, RedShift, others)
- Experience configuring and managing web forward proxies
- Knowledge of networking and communications
- Experience with configuration management tools such as Jenkins, AWS Code Commit/Build/Deploy, Ansible, Chef or Puppet
Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.