What are the responsibilities and job description for the AWS Administrator with AD position at Dechen Consulting?
About Dechen Consulting Group (DCG)
Dechen Consulting Group (DCG) is a rapidly expanding, innovative IT Professional Services and Management Consulting company with a track record of more than twenty-five years in delivering skilled professionals to our clients across diverse sectors.
We are currently seeking a Senior AWS Administrator for a C2C opportunity in Atlanta, GA. This role has the potential to extend over multiple years, with the chance to transition to a direct hire position with our client. We provide healthcare, vacation, relocation assistance, and visa sponsorship / transfer. This role offers excellent prospects for career progression!
Short Description :
We are seeking a highly skilled professional with experience in managing and supporting Active Directory environments.
Complete Description :
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 AD infrastructure 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 Active Directory resources within AWS.
- 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 a plus.
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Agency Interview Type :
Web Cam Interview Only
Work Arrangement : Remote
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