AWS Administrator

Location: Atlanta,GA,United States

Candidate must be local to Georgia

Employment Type – Contract

Candidate Must be USC/GC, willing to work in 1099 - No C2C

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.

· 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.

· Deploy, manage, and optimize Amazon EKS clusters for containerized applications, ensuring high availability and efficient resource usage.

· Implement Kubernetes best practices such as auto-scaling, high availability, and fault tolerance, while managing deployments, services, secrets, ConfigMaps, and other resources within EKS.

· 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. Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field from an accredited college or university. Eight (10) 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.

Best Regards,

Nisha Miriam George,

DRS IT Solutions, Inc

28175 Haggerty Road,

Novi, MI 48377

(C) 248-440-7600 EXT -3

(F) 248-859-4430

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nisha-george-0a7b39206/

nisha@drsitsolutions.com

www.drsitsolutions.com

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