AWS Administrator

The Georgia Department of Human Services (DHS), Office of Information Technology, is seeking a qualified candidate for the temporary contractor staffing position of AWS Administrator based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Do NOT submit candidates previously submitted to #754575

We areseeking a skilled and motivated AWS Administrator to manage and optimize ourAmazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure. The ideal candidate will beresponsible 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 toeffectively manage AWS accounts and resources Review cloud resources and costdrivers, compute, storage, network, managed services, database and servicelicenses, marketplace, and accounts.

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.

Deploy, manage, and optimize Amazon EKS clusters forcontainerized applications, ensuring high availability and efficient resourceusage.

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 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 (10) 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	of Experience
Bachelor's degree in computer science, management information systems, or related field combined with experience	Required
Experience in AWS.	Required	10	Years
Experience as a System Administrator.	Required	10	Years
Experience in public cloud environments, including AWS and/or Azure.	Required	8	Years
Experience with automation using an established framework (SaltStack, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc.).	Required	8	Years
Strong system administration experience in Windows and Linux environments.	Required	10	Years
Experience in Cloud Administration.	Required	10	Years
AWS Solution Architect.	Required

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