What are the responsibilities and job description for the AWS Administrator position at IMCS Group?
Title: SAWS Administrator
Type: Contract
Location: Atlanta, GA 30334 (Remote)
Complete Description:
We are seeking a skilled and motivated AWS Administrator to manage and optimize our Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure. The ideal candidate will be responsible for the design, deployment, and maintenance of AWS solutions, ensuring the security, scalability, and reliability of our cloud environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Establish configuration, compliance, and audit program to effectively manage AWS accounts and resources.
- Review cloud resources and cost drivers, including compute, storage, network, managed services, database, 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 by patching vulnerabilities, performing backup/restore operations, provisioning new servers, configuring firewalls, and configuring 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, 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 and ensure compliance. Experience with monitoring tools, middleware software, and ITSM tools is a plus.
Qualifications:
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field from an accredited college or university.
- Experience:
- 10 years of Cloud Administration experience.
- Strong technical knowledge of IT Infrastructure, including switches, routers, server operating systems, hardware, storage arrays, and security applications.
- Extensive system administration experience in both Windows and Linux environments.
- Experience with automation using an established framework (SaltStack, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc.).
- Experience in public cloud environments, particularly AWS and/or Azure.
- Familiarity with ITIL-driven environments and working knowledge of ITIL principles and processes.
- Experience with monitoring tools, middleware software, and ITSM tools is a plus.
Salary : $55 - $60
