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AWS Administrator
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We are seeking a highly skilled Senior AWS Administrator with experience in managing and supporting Active Directory environments.
The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of Amazon Web Services (AWS), including its infrastructure, services, and best practices, as well as expertise in implementing, configuring, and maintaining Active Directory solutions within AWS environments. The role involves managing cloud infrastructure, ensuring seamless integration with on-premises systems, and troubleshooting complex environments.
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.
Implement and manage Active Directory (AD) services, including AD Domain Services, AD Federation Services, and AD Certificate Services in AWS environments.
Integrate AWS Managed Microsoft AD with on-premises ADinfrastructure or other cloud environments.
Set up and manage Active Directory Federation Services(ADFS) in the cloud, ensuring secure access and identity management.
Automate the provisioning and management of ActiveDirectory resources within AWS.
As part of our Managed Services offering for clients;monitor rightsizing, elasticity, storage optimization, and identify unusedresources.
Maintain cloud-based servers patching vulnerabilities,backup/restore operations, provision new servers, configure firewalls,configure monitoring systems.
Manage account containerization and tagging for internalcost centers and end client billing feeds. Monitor cost allocations, securitycompliance, 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 andstoring event logs for actions made within AWS accounts.
Set controls to monitor to assure compliance. Experiencewith monitoring tools, middleware software and ITSM tools a plus.Qualifications bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field from anaccredited college or university. Eight (12) years of Cloud AdministrationExperience.
Excellent technical knowledge of IT Infrastructure,including switches, routers, server operating systems and hardware, storagearrays, and security applications.
Strong system administration experience in Windows andLinux environments. Experience with automation using an established framework(SaltStack, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc.).
Strong technical knowledge of current protocols, operatingsystems, and standards. Able to read and understand technical manuals andprocedural documentation.
Experience in public cloud environments, including AWSand/or Azure. Experience working in an ITIL-driven environment and workingknowledge of ITIL principles and processes.
Required/Desired Skills
Skill
Required /Desired
Amount
Bachelor's degree in computer science, management information systems, or related field combined with experience
Required
AWS Certified (MUST UPLOAD CERTIFICATION)
Required
Experience in AWS
Required
12
Experience as a System Administrator
Required
12
Experience in public cloud environments, including AWS and/or Azure
Required
12
Experience with automation using an established framework (SaltStack, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc.)
Required
8
Strong system administration experience in Windows and Linux environments
Required
12
Experience in Cloud Administration
Required
12
Managed Microsoft AD, AD FS, and AD Connect
Required
0
AWS Solution Architect Professional
Required
0
MCSA or MCSE Azure Solution Architect Expert
Required
0
